Anchor Mental Health Association, Catholic Charities Anchor Mental Health provides comprehensive support for adults and children with mental illness or behavioral disorders. Programs focus on diagnosis and management, and then move adults to secure employment, education and independence.
Answers Please Call Center The 211 Answers, Please! program links residents of the District of Columbia with a network of government and community social service providers. 211 Answers, Please! specializes in referrals that meet essential human needs for food, shelter, financial assistance, and healthcare. DC residents may access information 24-hours a day, seven days a week, by dialing our 211 Answers, Please! call center at (202) 463-6211.
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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 Heights Youth Club The Youth Club provides educational, recreational, and "personal growth" programs that focus on basic skills and self-esteem building for youths. Life Skills Programs include: tutoring and homework, basic computer literacy training, entrepeneurship and business skills, field trips to enhance cultural awareness, current events discussion, mentoring, and health awareness. Recreational programs include sports, arts and crafts, computer skills, dance, and improvisation.
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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Easter Seal Society for Disabled Children, Inc. This organization is a therapeutic pre-school for disabled and non-disabled children. It provides out-patient therapy and transportation to programs for clients residing in D.C. It is also an outreach program to public and private schools on handling severely handicapped children and it provides physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
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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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For Love of Children For Love of Children (FLOC) provides educational services beyond the classroom to help students succeed from first grade through college and career. FLOC brings together students, volunteers, families, and community partners in proven programs that teach, empower, and transform.
Programs include Neighborhood Tutoring Program, Scholars Program, and Outdoor Education Center
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Latin American Youth Center Founded in 1974, the Latin American Youth Center serves multicultural youth with a comprehensive set of social services and educational, work skills, advocacy programs and residential programs.
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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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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
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.
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