Helping people move toward economic self sufficiency.
A car takes you far!
Who We Help
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic works on a referral basis with Northern Kentucky social service agencies to help low-income families in Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties with car repairs. Repairs are done using a shared-cost model with the goal of helping the families get to their jobs and stay on the path to self-sufficiency.
What We Do
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Change engine oil
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Replace air filters
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Replace wiper blades
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Replace bulbs
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Top-off fluids
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Inflate tires
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General car repairs
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Who We Are
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic offers a lifeline to working poor families in Northern Kentucky. Our services enable these families to maintain their cars, allowing them to access jobs and transport family members to school and health care appointments.
“This is a great service. It is different than what others provide. Others do the normal services like food, but changing my oil is so great because my car is important to me. If I can’t get to my job, I can’t pay my bills.”
– Samaritan Car Care Clinic Participant
Thank you to…
Referral Partners
Financial Sponsors
This Mother's Day, give a working mom in Northern Kentucky the one thing she really needs right now - a reliable way to get to work. Be the reason a mom makes it to work tomorrow.
No car to give? A cash donation funds the next repair, the next placement, the next family.
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Amy V. is a Gateway student and single mom with 3 children. Amy desperately needed safe and reliable transportation for herself and her children. Fortunately, the Clinic received a donated Toyota Sienna van that was perfect for Amy’s needs. The van had quite a bit of deferred maintenance that needed to be addressed, but the body, engine, and transmission were in very good shape.
How wonderful that the Clinic had the van when a request came in for a single mom needing help transporting multiple children!
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Samaritan Car Care Clinic was founded in 2007 with a simple idea:
provide free oil changes to single moms in Northern Kentucky who had cars but couldn't afford to keep them running.
Nineteen years later, we have a three-bay shop in Covington, 12+ referral partners across NKY, and a donated vehicle program that puts working mothers behind the wheel when their car gives out and they have nowhere else to turn.
Single moms are still at the heart of our mission.
Donate a car. Cover a brake job. Refer a family.
There's a role for everyone in this work.
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Earlier this year, Life Learning Center - Northern Kentucky nominated graduate and member in good standing Zack S. to St. Vincent de Paul - Northern Kentucky for consideration of a microloan to buy a refurbished vehicle from the Samaritan Car Care Clinic. Zack works as a machine operator for a manufacturer located close to Hebron. Zack was working second shift and did not have a working vehicle. This caused him to spend close to 2 ½ hours each day commuting to work and back from his home in Covington because of having to wait for the more infrequent bus runs late at night. Plus, Zack was trying to care for a grandfather as well.
Zack qualified for a SVdPNKY microloan, and fortunately, earlier this year, the Clinic received a donated Chevrolet Equinox that was in very good shape. After doing some repairs and maintenance at the Clinic, student volunteers from the Covington Boys and Girls club even helped wash and wax the Equinox that ended up with Zack.
Zack expressed his incredible thanks for Life Learning Center connecting him with SVdPNKY and the Clinic.
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Want to help a family in need in Northern Kentucky? The answer could be parked in your driveway.
Not ready to donate a car? A cash gift makes the same kind of local impact.
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On Sunday afternoon, April 26, 2026, multiple Campbell County Kentucky police departments and fire departments held a Heroes Day to celebrate first responders and their role in the community. Included in the event were more than 20 different community partners and social service agencies as well.
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic was invited to participate in this year’s event. Several of the Clinic’s referral partners were also there, including Ion Center for Violence Prevention, Brighton Center, and NKCAC. Multiple families and first responders stopped by the Clinic’s table during the event to learn more about the great hand up work the Samaritan Car Care Clinic does for the Northern Kentucky community.
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That car in your driveway isn't just taking up space.
Someone in Northern Kentucky needs it to get to work.
Here are 5 signs it's time to donate — not trade in:
✓ You haven't driven it in months
✓ The repair bill isn't worth it
✓ You're buying something new and the trade-in value disappoints
✓ It doesn't run and you don't know what to do with it
✓ You want your giving to mean something you can see
When you donate to Samaritan Car Care Clinic, your car stays here in NKY. Our mechanics fix it up. A working family gets the keys.
Tax-deductible receipt. Real, local impact.
Not ready to donate a car? A cash gift makes the same kind of local impact.
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Magnified Giving is a Cincinnati based philanthropy that has as part of its mission to donate money to schools and youth organizations. Those organizations, in turn, use those funds to support non-profits of their choice.
Each year Magnified Giving provides multiple Boys & Girls Clubs in the Greater Cincinnati area seed money for grants. Students at the Boys & Girls Clubs then do research on non-profits and select one to receive a grant.
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic is very fortunate to have received a grant from the Boys & Girls Club of Newport, as well as the Boys & Girls Club of Covington.
Photos are of the students presenting the “big check” from each club at an event held on March 31, 2026, at the Boys & Girls Club in West Price Hill. As part of that event, each group presented the background of the non-profit, and why the group of students selected that non-profit.
Students from the Covington Club also came and helped clean a donated Equinox last week.
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Two great organizations!!
That’s amazing !
The Samaritan Car Care Clinic is fortunate to have enough dedicated volunteers that there is a volunteer-led maintenance event at least once each month.
Jon Allis led a team of volunteers this past Saturday, April 25, 2026, offering complementary oil changes primarily for residents of Brighton Center Scholar House in Newport.
The Clinic celebrates its great volunteers who offer a hand up to struggling families with complementary vehicle maintenance. Together we make progress addressing transportation barriers!
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