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Contact a company in your local community who can help.
Find Homeless Assistance
Local companies provide a series of services, consisting of food, housing, health, and security. Contact a national hotline or find a company near you. If you are experiencing a deadly emergency, please dial 911.
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Housing Assistance
Contact a housing counseling company in your location or call 800-569-4287.
Homeless Housing Help
- Contact a homeless provider in your neighborhood.
- Find regional community development and budget friendly housing contacts.
- Search justshelter.org to find neighborhood organizations working to preserve affordable housing, avoid eviction, and decrease household homelessness.
Renters: Find an Affordable Unit
- Find affordable rental housing near you. - Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
- Find State Housing Finance Agencies with budget-friendly rental residential or commercial properties.
- Find subsidized units in backwoods.
- Find cost effective units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
- Find information about occupant rights and obligations. - Find tenant rights by state.
- View state laws relating to security deposits.
- View 10 tips for tenants.
- View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
Homeowners
- Look for a HUD home to acquire on HUDhomestore.com. - Get help with home enhancements.
- Find support to prevent foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.
Fair Housing
- File a housing discrimination problem. - File a Housing Choice Voucher grievance by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending out an e-mail to Public Housing's Customer Service at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
Food
- Find your regional Food Bank. - Obtain WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
- Get SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
Find out more about other available food programs.
Health and Safety
- Locate an University Hospital near you, consisting of Healthcare for the Homeless Programs. - Locate a Diaper Bank near you that disperses diapers to families in requirement. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for personal, totally free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for people and member of the family facing psychological health and/or substance use disorders. This service offers referrals to regional treatment centers, assistance groups, and community-based companies.
- Locate Behavioral Health Treatment near you, consisting of compound abuse, psychological health, and veteran services.
- Locate Early Serious Mental Disorder Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs offering medication, therapy, family and peer assistance, and other assistance for those looking for treatment for a recent beginning of serious mental disorder such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and other conditions. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is available 24/7 to in complete confidence offer counseling services at a crisis center in your area.
- Locate HIV/AIDS care services near you. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or information, or questioning unhealthy elements of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is offered 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing kid abuse, seeking resources or details, and recommendations to countless emergency situation, social service, and assistance resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis support. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 offers support to at-risk youth and their families 24 hours a day through phone, e-mail, and live chat.
- Locate a Runaway and Homeless Youth Program near you for emergency shelter, transitional living program, or street outreach program for runaway or homeless youth.
National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1-888-373-7888 is offered 24/7 to confidentially offer assistance to victims of human trafficking.
Disasters
Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 provides crisis counseling and assistance to people experiencing psychological distress associated to natural or human-caused catastrophes. - Visit a Catastrophe Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with somebody face to face for assistance or details. To discover a center near you, utilize the DRC Locator or text DRC and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text message rates apply.).
- Look for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text rates apply.).
- Locate the nearest shelter or find your regional Red Cross.
- Find your closest healthcare facility, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
- Make an application for assistance on DisasterAssistance.gov.
- Search on FEMA.gov for up-to-date info on Presidentially declared disasters and find out how to get support.
- Visit Ready.gov for extensive guidance on how to get ready for emergencies and disasters.
- Visit Project Porchlight to access complimentary financial healing counseling and personalized assistance for catastrophe survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, offered by Finance International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling company.
Employment and Job Training
- DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 supplies details for job hunters, employees, and employers on employment and training. Workforce Development Board Locator offers local job centers where job candidates can get work info, find out about profession advancement training opportunities and connect to different programs in their location. - The American Job Center Finder supplies regional task centers that help job seekers find tasks, training, and answer other work related concerns.
- DOL's Employment Training page offers a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, monetary help, and a lot more.
Welfare Finder offers info about applying for unemployment advantages by state.
Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 offers details about this education and training program that assists young people learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a good task.
Veterans
Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 supplies 24/7 access to VA's services for homeless and at-risk Veterans. Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 is offered 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov offers work opportunities for veterans consisting of task postings, regional profession centers, and online self-assessments. - Locate a VA Medical Center for medical care.
- Locate a Neighborhood Resource and Referral Center near you that offers Veterans who are homeless and at threat of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote irreversible housing, health and mental healthcare, profession development and access to VA and non-VA advantages.