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Local agencies offer a variety of services, including food, housing, health, and safety. Contact a nationwide hotline or find an organization near you. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency situation, please dial 911.

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Housing Assistance

Contact a housing counseling agency in your area or call 800-569-4287.

Homeless Housing Help

- Contact a homeless provider in your neighborhood.

• Find regional neighborhood advancement and inexpensive housing contacts.
• Search justshelter.org to discover neighborhood organizations working to preserve cost effective housing, prevent eviction, and reduce household homelessness.
  
  Renters: Find a Cost Effective Unit
  
  - Find affordable rental housing near you.
• Find HIV/AIDS housing and services near you.
• Find State Housing Finance Agencies with affordable rental residential or commercial properties.
• Find subsidized systems in rural areas.
• Find budget-friendly units in residential or commercial properties supported by tax credits.
  
  Renters: Tenant Rights and Responsibilities
  
  - Find info about tenant rights and duties.
• Find occupant rights by state.
• View state laws concerning security deposits.
• View 10 tips 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 enhancements.
• Find support to prevent foreclosure near you or call the Making Home Affordable hotline 888-995-4673.
  
  Fair Housing
  
  - File a housing discrimination complaint.
• File a Housing Choice Voucher complaint by calling 1-800-955-2232 or sending an email to Public Housing's Client service at HUD-PIHRC@tngusa.net.
  
  Food
  
  - Find your local Food Bank.
• Look For WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) Benefits.
• Get SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Benefits.
  
  Learn more about other available food programs.
  
  Health and wellness
  
  - Locate a Health Center near you, including Health Care for the Homeless Programs.
• Locate a Diaper Bank near you that distributes diapers to households in requirement. 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 household members dealing with psychological health and/or compound use conditions. This service offers recommendations to local treatment centers, support groups, and community-based organizations.
• 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 offering medication, treatment, household and peer assistance, and other assistance for those seeking treatment for a recent onset of serious psychological disease 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 available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anybody experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or information, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453 is offered 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with anybody experiencing kid abuse, looking for resources or details, and referrals to countless emergency situation, social service, and support resources. RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656- 4673 is readily available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone experiencing sexual violence and in need of crisis assistance. National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929 supplies assistance 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 situation shelter, transitional living program, or street outreach program for runaway or homeless youth. National Human Trafficking Resource Center: 1-888-373-7888 is offered 24/7 to in complete confidence offer assistance to victims of human trafficking.
  
  Disasters
  
  Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 offers crisis counseling and support to individuals experiencing psychological distress associated to natural or human-caused disasters.
• Visit a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) to talk with someone face to face for guidance or info. To find a center near you, utilize the DRC Locator or text DRC and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: DRC 01234. (Standard text rates apply.).
• Search for open shelters near you by texting SHELTER and your zip code to 4FEMA (43362 ). Example: Shelter 01234. (Standard text message rates apply.).
• Locate the nearby shelter or find your local Red Cross.
• Find your closest hospital, utilize the U.S. Hospital Finder.
• Look for support on DisasterAssistance.gov.
• Search on FEMA.gov for up-to-date details on Presidentially declared catastrophes and learn how to get assistance.
• Visit Ready.gov for thorough guidance on how to prepare for emergency situations and disasters.
• Visit Project Porchlight to access totally free financial recovery counseling and personalized help for catastrophe survivors under a foundation-assisted grant program, used by Money Management International (MMI), a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling firm.
  
  Employment and Job Training
  
  - DOL's Employment and Training Helpline: 1-877-872-5627 offers details for task hunters, employees, and employers on employment and training. Workforce Development Board Locator offers regional task centers where job applicants can get employment information, discover career development training opportunities and link to different programs in their location.
• The American Job Center Finder provides regional job centers that help job hunters discover tasks, training, and respond to other employment associated concerns.
• DOL's Employment Training page supplies a short-term training finder, an education and training finder, an Accreditation Finder, links to Apprenticeship programs, financial assistance, and much more. Welfare Finder provides details about filing for welfare by state. Job Corps Helpline: 1-800-733-5627 provides info about this education and training program that assists youths find out a profession, earn a high school diploma or GED, and discover and keep a great job.
  
  Veterans
  
  Help for Homeless Veterans Helpline: 1-877-424-3838 provides 24/7 access to VA's services for homeless and at-risk Veterans. Veteran's Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 is offered 24/7 to talk in complete confidence with veterans in crisis (and their friends and families). Veterans.gov supplies job opportunity for veterans consisting of task posts, regional profession centers, and online self-assessments.
• Locate a VA Medical Center for treatment.
• Locate a Community Resource and Referral Center near you that provides Veterans who are homeless and at risk of homelessness with one-stop access to community-based, multiagency services to promote permanent housing, health and mental health care, profession advancement and access to VA and .