Adult Protective Services, Department of Human Services Adult Protective Services investigates complaints about abuse, neglect, and exploitation of adults who are unable to care for themselves or to make decisions due to senility, alcoholism, mental confusion, physical handicaps, injuries, illness, or crisis in their lives.
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Center City Community Corporation This program assists residents through counseling and with referrals in housing, basic adult education, employment and service to senior citizens. A youth program is also included. Clothing (limited supply) and food banks are sometimes available.
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
(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)
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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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Dwelling Place, Shelter for the Abused Elderly This is a program of the D.C. Office on Aging and SOME (So Others Might Eat). The shelter is for those elderly persons who have suffered some form of abuse or who are at risk in the community. There are multiple services offered, including meals.
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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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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
Friendship House Association, Inc. The Association provides various services for community residents, including day care for children, free second-hand clothing to the needy, an emergency food bank and crisis intervention center, a "drop-in" center for after school youth, job counseling and job placement for the hard to employ, crime and drug prevention unit to assist tenants in public housing, and the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Service for mentally ill adults referred by the D.C. Commission on Mental Health. It also provides services to the elderly living in Ward 6 east of the Anacostia and in the southeast part of Ward 2, including: recreational services, meals to the home-bound, legal help, health screenings, and lunch at 7 nutrition sites.
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Iona Senior Service The Senior Service responds to the growing need and number of people 60 years and older. It helps both frail and active older persons stay independent and involved in the community by providing a wide variety of services.
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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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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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