211
Connects you to local help for food, housing, bills, health and more. Dial 211 or search online.
24/7 in most areas
For families stretching every meal. Talk with people in United States who know what it is like, find help near you, and join the worldwide circle too. Free, always.
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Connects you to local help for food, housing, bills, health and more. Dial 211 or search online.
24/7 in most areas
Find your local food bank and food pantries.
Find government benefits you may qualify for: food, health care, housing, unemployment and more.
A small team supporting eviction and housing insecurity and homelessness. Free first conversation, then low-cost sessions.
Weekdays and Saturday mornings
Estimate which assistance programmes your household may qualify for after losing income. No account needed.
We help people with homelessness and not enough food, in person in Baltimore and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Tue to Sat, 10 to 6
We help people with eviction and housing insecurity and not enough food, in person in Los Angeles and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Weekdays and Saturday mornings
Run by people who have been through eviction and housing insecurity and not enough food themselves.
Tue to Sat, 10 to 6
We help people with eviction and housing insecurity and not enough food, in person in Philadelphia and online. Sessions are relaxed and you set the pace.
Mon to Fri, 9 to 5
โIf you're where I was, with the pasta and the payday loans and the shame, I want you to know it can get better. I'm not going to tell you it's easy. It's not. But the food bank is there and it's not charity, it's just help, and you're allowed to take it. Ask for the help. Tell one person. That's what I did and it didn't fix everything but it made it less heavy. And don't do what I did with the loans. Talk to someone first.โ
โif youre where i was in september, the shame is the worst part. i promise you, half the people around you are doing the same math. find the food bank, find the market at closing time. tell one person, even if it feels huge. and eat something today, even if its small. i still count coins but i dont skip lunch every day now. thats something.โ
โI was in the same place in 2022. It was the end of the month and I couldn't see past it. This year I did a 5k, slowly. The bad days get further apart. You're not on your own.โ
โIf you're at the start of this, I won't pretend it's easy so the first few months were the worst of my life, but I'm writing this from the other side, and some days now I forget to be sad. The council were useless until I put everything in writing. Go slowly.โ