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Verified means a RiseAid volunteer confirmed hours and intake within 12 months. Everything else is source-seeded; call ahead.
Utah Department of Workforce Services
Runs Utah's SNAP, Medicaid, financial assistance, and child care programs and the state's employment centers. The fastest way to apply or check a case is the myCase portal at jobs.utah.gov/mycase; employment centers around the state can help in person.
Transition to Adult Living (TAL)
DCFS program for youth leaving Utah foster care. Aftercare support can cover rent, bills, housing deposits, vehicle costs, and crises; education and employment funds, counseling, and medical and substance use supports are also available. Start with your assigned TAL coordinator, or email the coordinator team if you do not know who that is.
Utah Refugee Services Office
State refugee program whose walk-in Utah Refugee Center in Salt Lake City connects refugees to employment, integration services, and local resettlement providers. No appointment needed.
Refugee & Immigrant Center — Asian Association of Utah
Utah's primary human trafficking victim services provider, alongside refugee resettlement, trauma-informed behavioral health for refugees, trafficking and domestic violence survivors, housing help, financial coaching, English classes, parenting classes (STEP offered in Spanish), interpreting, and youth mentoring. Downtown Salt Lake City office open weekdays.
Community Reentry Services, Division of Rehabilitative Programs
Runs CDCR's pre-release community programs, including the Male and Female Community Reentry Programs, which let eligible people serve the last 60 days to 32 months of a state prison sentence in a community facility with housing, employment, education, and recovery support. Placement is requested through your correctional counselor during annual review.
California Chafee Grant for Foster Youth
Grant of up to $5,000 per year for college or vocational training for current and former foster youth under 26. Apply by filing the FAFSA or California Dream Act Application and then the one-time Chafee application.
Downtown Women's Center
Day center for women and survivors of violence on Skid Row with daily meals, showers, mail, case management, mental health care, a women's health clinic, and permanent supportive housing. No formal intake is needed to visit.
Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Membership organization for people coming home from incarceration in California, with case management, trauma-informed counseling, housing, education, job training, and mentorship. Fill out the member application online, then attend a weekday orientation at the LA or Sacramento office.
Homeboy Industries
Los Angeles program for formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people offering free tattoo removal, GED and education classes, substance use referrals, limited legal help, workforce support, and court-mandated classes. Most services start by walking into the office during business hours.
GLIDE Daily Free Meals
Three free meals every day in San Francisco's Tenderloin with no eligibility requirements and no intake form. GLIDE also runs a Welcome Center, workforce development, a women's center, a transitional age youth program, and a legal clinic.
Delancey Street Foundation
Free two-year residential self-help community for people with substance use histories, prior convictions, or homelessness, where residents learn vocational, academic, and interpersonal skills. Applicants write from jail or show up at the building and wait on the bench for an interview.
Father Joe's Villages
San Diego's largest homeless services campus with a daily day center, public lunch, showers, mail, a health clinic, detox and MAT, family shelter intake, and employment help. Show up in person before 11am on a weekday to be scheduled for an assessment.
Office of Programs and Re-Entry
FDC's central office for in-prison programming and release planning. It also maintains the searchable Re-Entry Resource directory of community providers by county, city, judicial circuit or zip code, which people leaving state prison can use to find transition services.
Extended Foster Care and Aftercare Services
Florida lets young people stay in foster care until 21 and offers Aftercare to anyone who turned 18 in DCF custody, with help available until the 23rd birthday. Aftercare covers mentoring, mental health and substance use support, life-skills and parenting classes, job training and temporary financial aid; a separate tuition exemption runs through age 28 and Medicaid through 26.
Florida's Independent Living Resource Center
Free statewide information-and-referral clearinghouse for current and former foster youth, run by Daniel Kids in Jacksonville. Staff answer questions about Extended Foster Care, PESS, Aftercare, Keys to Independence and other transition benefits and point youth to the right local contact.
Refugee Resettlement and Employment Programs
Reception and placement for newly arrived refugees, community-resource help for Cuban and Haitian entrants, and Match Grant job search, employment coaching and placement for refugees, entrants and asylees. Adult clients are referred through Migration and Refugee Services and the USCCB.
Lotus House Women's Shelter
Shelter for women, youth and children experiencing homelessness in Miami, with meals, therapy, education and employment help on site. Youth and domestic violence survivors can contact Lotus House directly; everyone else is asked to go through the Miami Homeless Program first.
Metropolitan Ministries
Tampa Bay nonprofit serving poor and homeless families and individuals in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas with emergency family shelter, a food market, rent and utility help and job training. Its Metro BrigAIDe mobile outreach team helps with IDs, SNAP and Medicaid applications and housing assessments at more than 20 sites.
Sulzbacher Center
Jacksonville's largest provider of homeless services, with men's housing downtown on East Adams Street and women's and family housing at Sulzbacher Village in Springfield. Offers street outreach, daily meals, emergency and permanent housing, the Duval Family Health Center, veteran services and job placement.
Ready4Work
Jacksonville reentry program with a 4-to-6-week career development course, case management, life coaching, job placement, a JTA bus pass for class days, interview clothing and a year of follow-up support. Open to adults with non-violent, non-sexual charges in Duval, Clay, St. Johns or Nassau County.
Reentry Services - Operations Support Division
The state unit that plans release for people in Georgia prisons and follows them into the community. Pre-release staff inside GDC facilities identify needs, community coordinators in every judicial circuit link people to housing, jobs and mentors, and the Housing Resources unit runs the THOR and Reentry Partnership Housing beds.
GA RYSE Independent Living Program (Chafee)
DFCS's program for teens and young adults who spent at least six months in Georgia foster care after age 14. An Independent Living Specialist enrolls the youth, builds a transitional living plan, and opens doors to Chafee funds, Education and Training Vouchers, and post-foster-care support up to age 21.
Georgia Refugee Program
The State Refugee Coordinator's office coordinates resettlement agencies, job placement and Refugee Cash Assistance for newly arrived refugees across Georgia. It also explains how refugees apply for SNAP, Medicaid, TANF or RCA through Georgia Gateway or a county DFCS office.
New American Pathways
Atlanta resettlement agency offering case management, job placement, English and GED classes, immigration consultations and family violence prevention to refugees, asylees and trafficking survivors. Most services are by appointment, with walk-in hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
International Rescue Committee in Atlanta
Resettles refugees arriving in metro Atlanta and helps them find housing, enroll children in school, reach health care and start work. The office also offers low-cost immigration legal help, youth programs for ages 5 to 24, and career development for asylees and SIV holders.
Gateway Center
Downtown Atlanta's main front door for people without housing. It runs coordinated entry for the city, an engagement center with day services, and residential tracks for men including the Upward addiction-recovery program and a two-year veterans program.
The Shepherd's Inn
Shelter and residential program for up to 450 single men a day, with meals, counseling, recovery programming, job training and legal help. Arrive at the Mills Street gate early; pre-screening happens before the weekday morning intake window.
Wellspring Living
Residential and community programs for women and girls recovering from sexual exploitation and trafficking in metro Atlanta, including the Receiving Hope Center for youth, a women's residential program, academies with GED prep and career pathways, and post-program support.
Parole Reentry Group
IDOC's parole division unit that coordinates housing, community resources, and supportive services for people under supervision after release. Questions about parole conditions or community supervision go to the Parole Office line; general inquiries go to Constituent Services.
RefugeeOne
Chicago's largest resettlement agency, serving refugees, asylees, and immigrants with rent support, English classes, job coaching, mental health therapy, youth programs, and free citizenship help. Call or email to connect.
Safer Foundation
Reentry nonprofit in downtown Chicago offering job training and placement, education, housing support, clothing, and wellness services for people with arrest or conviction records. Enrollment starts through its online client portal.
Rockford Rescue Mission
Shelter, meals, a free medical and dental clinic, and residential Life Recovery programs for men and women in Rockford. Shelter check-in is open at any hour, with separate entrances for men and for women with children.
South Side Mission
Peoria mission focused on the 61605 neighborhood, running a soup kitchen, youth programs, job training, and outreach for people in crisis. Faith-based but open to anyone; call for details on a specific ministry.
Offender Success Administration
MDOC's reentry arm. Through regional contracted agencies it helps parolees with housing, basic supplies, job placement and retention, and pairs some parolees with mentors who have completed the system themselves. Planning starts before release through In-Reach.
Michigan Youth Opportunities Initiative (MYOI)
Program for current and former foster youth ages 14 to 23 that offers matched savings accounts, stipends for participating in events, life skills training, and youth leadership boards. Enrollment runs through a county MYOI coordinator.
Office of Global Michigan
The state refugee coordinator's office. Its Refugee Services team funds and oversees resettlement, employment, and health programs for refugees and other newcomers across Michigan and can direct you to the resettlement agency serving your area.
Samaritas New Americans
One of Michigan's largest refugee resettlement agencies, with offices in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing. Provides arrival resettlement, employment and education support, low-fee immigration legal help, case management, and refugee foster care.
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Operates more than ten sites in Detroit and Highland Park offering overnight emergency shelter with meals, showers, and clothing, plus withdrawal management, substance use treatment, transitional housing for men in recovery and women with children, and job training.
Cass Community Social Services
Detroit nonprofit with food programs, affordable housing, health services, job training through its Green Industries, and a warming center. Also hosts a CAM walk-in access point for shelter referrals.
Alternatives For Girls
Detroit agency for homeless and at-risk girls and young women, including trafficking and domestic violence survivors. Street outreach teams offer food, clothing, and hygiene kits; the Crisis Resource Center connects survivors to shelter, health care, and workforce programs.
Mel Trotter Ministries
Grand Rapids' largest shelter provider, serving individuals and families with meals, emergency shelter, medical care, permanent housing support, and job training through its Next Step of West Michigan division. First-time guests start with a phone triage call.
Dégagé Ministries
Heartside-neighborhood day center in Grand Rapids with low-cost meals, showers and haircuts, a women's overnight shelter, case management, and an ID program that helps guests get state IDs and vital records needed for jobs and housing.
Carriage Town Ministries
Flint's emergency shelter since 1950, offering beds, meals, case management, and a resident transitional employment program. Call ahead for a phone screening to learn current bed availability.
Sanctum House
Residential program in Oakland County for women survivors of human trafficking, combining trauma-informed care, sobriety support, and employment through a jewelry-making partnership. Location is confidential; use the website's Request Help form or call.
Transition Services, Rehabilitation and Reentry
State office that funds and oversees North Carolina's 20 Local Reentry Councils (26 counties) and runs transitional housing and other reentry programs for people coming home from prison. Councils help with housing, jobs, transportation, documents, and substance use referrals; contacts for each council are linked from this page.
NC LINKS and Foster Care 18 to 21
North Carolina's Chafee independent living program (LINKS) for current and former foster youth ages 13 to 21, plus the Foster Care 18 to 21 extension that keeps young adults in care with financial support and case management while they work or go to school. Education and Training Vouchers up to $5,000 a year and the NC Reach scholarship are also run from here.
North Carolina Refugee Assistance Program
Administers cash and medical assistance for the first 12 months after arrival plus employment services, case management, English classes, and immigration help for refugees, asylees, trafficking victims, and SIV and parolee populations. Applications are taken at county DSS offices rather than the state office.
Urban Ministries of Durham
Durham's primary public shelter for single men and women, with nine family rooms, a cafe serving three free meals every day of the year, and a food pantry and clothing closet. Shelter placement goes through Entry Point Durham, which currently does intakes by phone only.
AHOPE Day Center
Asheville's low-barrier day center where showers, breakfast, mail, lockers, phone, and Wi-Fi are available each weekday morning, followed by case management for IDs, housing applications, and job documents. It is the starting point for Homeward Bound's permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and veteran programs.
Center for Community Transitions
Charlotte nonprofit serving people with criminal records through LifeWorks!, a job-readiness and job-search program at the Goodwill Opportunity Campus, and the Center for Women, a 30-bed residential reentry program for incarcerated women. Reach LifeWorks! directly at the Goodwill campus or call the administrative office.
Re-Entry Services
County-run voluntary case management for people returning to Mecklenburg County from state or federal prison or a local jail sentence, with partner help for ID, treatment and medication, job training, work supplies, medical and dental care, housing, and peer support. Referrals can be submitted before release.
SaySo (Strong Able Youth Speaking Out)
Statewide, youth-led advocacy group for people ages 14 to 24 who are or have been in foster care, group homes, or other out-of-home placements. Members get life-skills training, transition events like It's My Transition and LINK UP, mentorship, and a voice with legislators on foster care policy.
NYS Education and Training Voucher Program
Up to $5,000 a year toward college or vocational costs for young people who are or were in New York foster care. Apply online at etv-nys.smapply.org after filing the FAFSA; funding must start before age 21 and can run to age 26.
Refugee Services
The state agency that oversees resettlement and self-sufficiency services for refugees and their families, plus assistance for trafficking victims and unaccompanied refugee minors. Contact the Albany office to be connected with a local resettlement provider.
The Fortune Society
One-stop reentry center in Long Island City with housing, employment training, education, outpatient substance use and mental health treatment, hot meals, family services, and benefits enrollment for people with justice involvement. Walk in during business hours or call to get started.
Osborne Association
Serves people and families affected by the criminal legal system from offices in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Troy, Newburgh, and White Plains, with career and education support for young adults and free bus rides to state prisons for visits. Contact the nearest office for current programs.
International Institute of Buffalo
Resettlement and integration services for refugees and other newcomers in Western New York, with an in-house legal team for immigration matters. Call or visit the Delaware Avenue office on weekdays.
Center for Community Alternatives – Rochester
Career training, job placement, and legal help with conviction records for people who have been arrested or incarcerated, from an office on Andrews Street downtown. Email or call to connect with a staff member.
Office of Reentry
The state prison system's reentry office handles Certificates of Qualification for Employment and Housing, reentry coalitions, workforce programs, and regional reentry coordinators. Returning citizens can call the main line or the coordinator for their region.
Ohio BRIDGES
Voluntary program for young adults who left Ohio foster care at 18 to 20. Participants get housing funding and a Bridges Liaison for case management as long as they are in school, working, in a job program, or have a documented impairment.