Anchor Mental Health Association The Association sponsors three programs for adults who are recovering from emotional and mental problems:
(1) Anchor House-- two residential facilities for recovering patients
(2) Anchor Service Workshop-- offers training and counseling for work adjustment, and
(3) Anchor Club-- provides supervised recreational and social activities and psycho-social rehabilitation.
Placement service provides case management services for recovering mentally ill patients.
Answers Please Call Center The Center has a staff of thirteen workers who refer people to government or private sector agencies from a database of 1000 social service providers that can answer their needs. It provides immediate translation services for 110 languages.
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Central Union Mission Central Union Mission offers spiritual recovery during a 16-24 week program that includes alcoholic rehabilitation and temporary shelter for men. Meals are served twice a day. Chapel services are also provided.
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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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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
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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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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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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