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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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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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. It also serves as an advocate for the removal of barriers in architecture. It provides transportation to programs for clients residing in D.C. It is an outreach program to public and private schools on handling severely handicapped children. It provides physical therapy as well as occupational and speech therapy.
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Employment Services Center, D.C. Department of Employment Services The Center offers a variety of programs, including day laborer positions, nursing assistant training, testing to measure vocational aptitude, and training and employment programs. It also administers a Summer Youth Program.
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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 Five programs are offered:
(1) learning center
(2) group home for adolescents
(3) foster home program
(4) housing program for families, and
(5) therapeutic foster home program for children who cannot benefit from regular foster care.
There is an outdoor education center and the housing program provides up to 3 years of transitional housing.
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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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Latin American Youth Center
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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.
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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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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