Catholic Community Services, Refugee Center Our English as a Second Language programs offer basic literacy to intermediate level language skills to help refugees and immigrants rebuild their lives and achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.
We offer job search training, orientation, counseling, placement, and follow-up.
Our occupational skills training center assists with career counseling and finding and applying for short-term training.
Other Formats:
Separate Website
D.C. Food Finder
(Separate Website)
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)
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Lutheran Social Services The Lutheran Social Services provide family and child services (extensive adoption services, natural parent counseling, foster care, resettlement, and legalization services for refugees) as well as community justice ministry (provides housing resources for the homeless, low income housing locations, mental health services, emergency services).
Other Formats:
Separate Website
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.
Other Formats:
Separate Website
www.211metrodc.org
(Separate Website)
A listing of thousands of health and human services programs available to assist you.
By: Nonprofit Roundtable
LawHelp.org/DC is a project of the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Program with support from the D.C. Consortium of Legal Services Providers and funding from the D.C. Bar Foundation.