Christ House Christ House provides a 32 bed medical recovery unit for homeless men and women suffering from medical conditions. Persons may reside there until they are recovered, at which time they will be referred to a more permanent place of residence.
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Columbia Road Health Services Columbia Road Health Services offers affordable, compassionate health care in Washington, DC. No one is turned away due to inability to pay.
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D.C. Food Finder
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This website provides information about:
- FREE and low cost meals and groceries
- Places to apply for and use food assistance benefits
- Cooking classes and nutrition workshops
- Farmers' markets
- Community gardens
- Other food resources in DC
(Project of Healthy Affordable Food For All)
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DC Office on Aging The DC Office on Aging develops and carries out a comprehensive and coordinated system of health, education, employment, and social services for the District's elderly population, who are 60 years of age and older. Its services include a city-run nursing home as well as Senior Centers throughout the District, all of which serve lunch.
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Downtown Cluster's Geriatrics Day Care Center The Center provides functionally (physically or mentally) elderly persons with therapeutic activities, recreation, hot lunches, snacks, and transportation.
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Eofula Spanish Senior Center The center offers several services:
(1) Counseling: case management, crisis intervention, telephone reassurance, escort/interpretation, housing and other service assistance.
(2) Transportation: from home to the Center, to doctor's appointments, etc.
(3) Recreation: trips, art classes, cooking classes, intergenerational activities, birthday parties, arts & crafts, and recording of folk loric tales.
(4) English classes: Monday-Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
(5) Health Promotion and Services: video exercises, lectures, walks, homebound visits, senior companion services, and Alzheimer's referrals.
(6) Food: hot lunches are served Monday through Friday.
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Ethiopian Community Center, Inc. The Center provides referrals and information about social services, health care, lawyers, immigration, and family counseling. Case workers are available to provide direct counseling for interpersonal, immigration, and employment problems. Job placement assistance is also available.
Family Place- El Hogar de la Familia Family Place is a neighborhood for support of parents with young children and pregnant women. It provides free lunch, parent education, discussion groups, and counseling.
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Free Food Programs in D.C. This document lists the many programs that provide free meals and groceries to qualified D.C. residents. The document is divided into several sections (see headings at the top of each page): a master list, meal programs, food pantries, breakfast programs, lunch programs, dinner programs, meal programs by day of the week, and meal programs by type of clients served (men, women, families, etc.).
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By: So Others Might Eat
Free Kidney Disease Screenings
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This website provides information about upcoming free screenings for kidney disease.
By: National Kidney Foundation of the National Capital Area
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Mary's Center is demonstrating how improved access to prenatal and pediatric care, coupled with sensitivity to culture and family, lead to healthy mothers and healthy children. In addition, the Center, through its numerous programs, has undertaken initiatives to provide a dynamic child development program, intensive home visits for vulnerable families, case management for teen pregnancy prevention and planning, educational training to prevent school dropout, employment referral and placement, HIV testing and prevention, and a housing program designed to prevent homelessness.
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Newcomer Service Center The Newcomer Community Service Center (NCSC) is a minority-based non-profit organization that helps refugees and immigrants from all countries achieve self-sufficiency and become participating members of American society.
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Office on Latino Affairs, Office of the Mayor, DC Government The mission of the Office on Latino Affairs is to improve the quality of life of the District's Latino population by providing community-based grants, advocacy, community relations and outreach services to residents so they can have access to a full range of health, education, housing, economic development and employment services.
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Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington (PPMW) is dedicated to providing quality medical care to low-income and uninsured patients and educating vulnerable teens.
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So Others May Eat SOME (So Others Might Eat), an interfaith, community-based organization helps meet the immediate daily needs of the people with food, clothing, and health care. They also offer services, such as affordable housing, job training, addiction treatment, and counseling, to the poor, the elderly and individuals with mental illness.
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Washington Free Clinic Located in the Columbia Heights/Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, the Clinic serves immigrants, refugees, and low-income residents. In addition to primary health care services, the Clinic provides some sub-specialty services as well as HIV/AIDS testing and counseling. Services are offered in both Spanish & English and translators are available for other languages as needed.
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Whitman-Walker Clinic Whitman-Walker Clinic is a non-profit community-based health organization serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.
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www.211metrodc.org
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A listing of thousands of health and human services programs available to assist you.
By: Nonprofit Roundtable
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LawHelp.org/DC is a project of the D.C. Consortium of Legal Service Providers with financial support provided by the D.C. Bar Foundation and the Legal Services Corporation.
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