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Local agencies offer a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and safety. Contact a national hotline or locate a company near you. If you are a dangerous emergency, please dial 911.

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Housing Assistance

Contact a housing therapy firm in your area or call 800-569-4287.

Homeless Housing Help

- Contact a homeless company in your neighborhood.

• Find regional community advancement and cost effective housing contacts.
• Search justshelter.org to discover neighborhood organizations working to maintain inexpensive housing, prevent expulsion, and lower household homelessness.
  
  Renters: Find an Inexpensive Unit
  
  - Find budget friendly rental housing near you.
• Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
• Find State Housing Finance Agencies with inexpensive rental residential or commercial properties.
• Find subsidized units in backwoods.
• Find budget friendly units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
  
  Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
  
  - Find details about tenant rights and duties.
• Find renter rights by state.
• View state laws relating to security deposits.
• View 10 pointers for renters.
• View the Move-In/Move-Out Inspection Form.
  
  Homeowners
  
  - Search for a HUD home to buy on HUDhomestore.com.
• Get help with home improvements.
• Find help to prevent foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.
  
  Fair Housing
  
  - File a housing discrimination problem.
• File a Housing Choice Voucher complaint by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending out an email to Public Housing's Client service at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
  
  Food
  
  - Find your regional Food Bank.
• Get WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
• Request SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
  
  Learn more about other available food programs.
  
  Health and Safety
  
  - Locate an University Hospital near you, consisting of Healthcare for the Homeless Programs.
• Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to families in need. Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357 for personal, complimentary, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, details service, in English and Spanish, for people and member of the family facing mental health and/or substance utilize disorders. This service offers referrals to local treatment centers, assistance groups, and community-based companies.
• Locate Behavioral Health Treatment Services near you, including drug abuse, mental health, and veteran services.
• Locate Early Serious Mental Disorder Treatment near you, consisting of evidence-based programs supplying medication, therapy, family and peer support, and other assistance for those looking for treatment for a current onset of serious psychological illness such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and other conditions. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 is offered 24/7 to confidentially provide therapy services at a crisis center in your location.
• Locate HIV/AIDS care services near you. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 is offered 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or info, or questioning unhealthy elements of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing kid abuse, looking for resources or details, and recommendations to thousands of emergency situation, social service, and assistance resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anyone experiencing sexual violence and in requirement of crisis assistance. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 supplies support to at-risk youth and their households 24 hr a day through phone, e-mail, and live chat.
• Locate a Runaway and Homeless Youth Program near you for emergency shelter, transitional living program, or street outreach program for runaway or homeless youth. National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1-888-373-7888 is readily available 24/7 to confidentially provide help to victims of human trafficking.
  
  Disasters
  
  Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 provides crisis counseling and assistance to people experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused catastrophes.
• Visit a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with someone personally for guidance or info. To find a center near you, utilize the DRC Locator or text DRC and your postal code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text message rates use.).
• Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text rates use.).
• Locate the nearest shelter or find your local Red Cross.
• Find your closest health center, use the U.S. Hospital Finder.
• Look for help on DisasterAssistance.gov.
• Search on FEMA.gov for updated info on Presidentially declared disasters and discover how to get help.
• Visit Ready.gov for thorough assistance on how to get ready for emergency situations and disasters.
• Visit Project Porchlight to access free financial healing counseling and customized support for disaster survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, offered by Finance International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling agency.
  
  Employment and Job Training
  
  - DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 supplies info for job applicants, employees, and employers on employment and training. Workforce Development Board Locator provides local task centers where job candidates can get employment details, discover profession advancement training opportunities and connect to numerous programs in their area.
• The American Job Center Finder offers regional job centers that assist job seekers discover tasks, training, and respond to other work associated concerns.
• DOL's Employment Training page supplies a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, a Certification Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, monetary aid, and far more. Unemployment Benefits Finder offers information about applying for welfare by state. Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 provides info about this education and training program that helps young individuals find out a profession, make a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep an excellent job.
  
  Veterans
  
  Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 supplies 24/7 access to VA's services for homeless and at-risk Veterans. Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 is readily available 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov offers job opportunity for veterans including task posts, regional profession centers, and online self-assessments.
• Locate a VA Medical Center for healthcare.
• Locate a Neighborhood Resource and Referral Center near you that provides Veterans who are homeless and at danger of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote irreversible housing, health and mental health care, career advancement and access to VA and non-VA advantages.