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Verified means a RiseAid volunteer confirmed hours and intake within 12 months. Everything else is source-seeded; call ahead.
Lifeline free phone program
Free or discounted phone and service for people on Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, or low income. Apply online or through a carrier.
211 Utah
Dial 2-1-1 for referrals to food, housing, utilities, health, and more anywhere in Utah.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988 for any mental health or substance use crisis. Available to anyone in any program.
The Road Home
Salt Lake County's main emergency shelter provider for single men, single women, and families with children. Beds are assigned through the Homeless Services Line, not by walking up. Operates the Pamela Atkinson Resource Center (South Salt Lake), Gail Miller Resource Center (Salt Lake City), and Connie Crosby Family Resource Center (Midvale).
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.
Odyssey House of Utah
Adult residential and outpatient substance use treatment in Salt Lake City, including a residential program where parents keep their children with them and a criminal justice track. Free for low-income Salt Lake residents; takes in-network insurance and offers cash rates. Walk-in residential screening weekday mornings.
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.
211 California
Network of county 211 call centers covering housing, food, utility help, health care, and mental health referrals across California. Use the Find Your 211 page to reach the center for your county, which can be called or texted.
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes
Survival services campus for unhoused adults and children in Sacramento with a daily noon meal, showers and clothing, a women's daytime shelter, free mental health counseling, a legal clinic, and a jail visitation program that gives bus passes and toiletry kits after release.
Union Rescue Mission
Skid Row mission offering emergency shelter, meals, showers, recovery and transitional programs for single adults and families with children; it does not turn away women, children, or families. Call the intake line or apply online before arriving.
MyACCESS Public Benefits
Florida's single application for SNAP food assistance, Medicaid, Temporary Cash Assistance and the Refugee Services Program. The MyACCESS self-service portal is open around the clock; a customer call center handles questions and case changes.
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.
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Free civil legal help for low-income Los Angeles County residents, including record clearing, eviction defense, domestic violence and family law, immigration, and public benefits. Call the intake line weekday mornings or apply online.
St. Anthony Foundation
Tenderloin service center serving more than 1,000 free meals a day, with a free clothing program, medical clinic, and the Father Alfred Center, a free year-long residential recovery program for men with limited resources.
Root & Rebound
Oakland-based legal nonprofit for people with arrest or conviction histories, offering a reentry legal hotline, workshops, and direct legal services on issues like records, housing, and employment barriers.
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.
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.
Chatham Savannah Authority for the Homeless
The lead homelessness agency for Savannah and Chatham County. Its street outreach team meets people where they are six days a week and connects them to shelter and housing, and it operates an Access Center for triage at Union Mission's day center on Fahm Street.
CDPH Vital Records
State office that issues certified copies of California birth certificates by mail. There is no public counter; orders are mailed through USPS and are not refundable once accepted.
California ID Card
Start the ID card application online, then visit a DMV office with your Social Security number and identity document. People experiencing homelessness and those fleeing domestic violence can get a no-fee ID; people on public assistance may qualify for a reduced-fee ID with form DL 937.
CalFresh
California's SNAP food benefits program, applied for through your county's online application, by phone, or at a county social services office. Application forms are available in 16 languages.
Georgia Gateway
The state's online portal for applying for SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, Refugee Cash Assistance, WIC and childcare assistance, and for the Pathways to Coverage Medicaid option for adults 19–64. Applications are available in other languages and free interpreters are offered by phone.
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.
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Issues certified copies of Florida birth certificates by mail, online through VitalChek, or at the walk-in office in Jacksonville. A computer-generated certificate costs $9 for the first copy and $4 for each additional copy; county health departments can also issue records from 1917 forward.
Florida Driver License and ID Cards
FLHSMV's Division of Motorist Services issues Florida ID cards and driver licenses at service centers across the state; some take walk-ins and others require appointments. Renewals and replacements can be handled online through the MyDMV Portal.
211 Tampa Bay Cares (First Contact)
Round-the-clock information and referral for the Tampa Bay region, including a Homeless Helpline, a sexual assault services line, emergency financial assistance for adults and the 988 crisis line. Call, text your ZIP code, or chat online.
Camillus House
Miami's long-running provider for people who are poor and homeless, with an overnight shelter on NW 7th Avenue and Camillus Health on NW 5th Street. Serving South Florida since 1960.
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.
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida
Low-barrier residential shelter in downtown Orlando serving about 500 men, women and children a day, with free meals, Housing First case management and a diversion program that helps people find housing outside the shelter system.
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.
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.
Florida Association of Recovery Residences (FARR)
The state's NARR affiliate, which certifies sober living and recovery residences under Florida Statute 397.487. Its online provider list is the place to check whether a recovery residence is certified, and it accepts grievances about residences that fall short of standards.
Legal Services of Greater Miami
Free civil legal help for low-income residents of Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties on housing, benefits and other barriers to economic stability. Phone intake runs four afternoons a week; walk-in intake is Monday and Wednesday mornings.
United Way 211 Greater Atlanta
Free, confidential referral line staffed around the clock that points Atlanta-area callers to rent and utility help, food pantries, shelter beds, and other services. The team also handles web chat and a texting option for people who cannot talk.
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.
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.
Davis Behavioral Health
Davis County's public behavioral health provider with clinics in Layton, Bountiful, and Syracuse. Outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use treatment, medication-assisted therapy for opioid use, mental health outpatient and residential care, medication management, a crisis receiving center, and a 24-hour crisis line. Care is available regardless of ability to pay.
Center of Hope - Augusta
Emergency shelter in Augusta with separate check-in lines for single women, women with children, men and families. Dinner is served nightly and everyone checks out at 8 a.m.; caseworker appointments can be requested by phone or online.
Garden City Gospel Mission
Men's shelter on Fenwick Street in Augusta that also runs a nine-month residential Life Development Center for men working to leave addiction. Showers are open to the public on Fridays.
Georgia Crisis and Access Line (GCAL)
The state's single number for mental health and addiction emergencies and for getting into publicly funded treatment. Counselors talk people through a crisis, send mobile crisis teams, locate open detox or crisis beds anywhere in Georgia, and book urgent appointments with state-funded providers.
Georgia Legal Services Program
Nonprofit law firm handling civil cases for low-income Georgians in the 154 counties outside metro Atlanta, through regional offices around the state. Statewide intake runs through a toll-free line.
Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Free civil legal help for people in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties who cannot afford a lawyer, with special projects for domestic violence survivors, veterans and people with disabilities. Online application is the fastest route; each county office also takes calls.
State Office of Vital Records
Issues certified Georgia birth certificates, the first document most people need before a state ID. Order online through ROVER for $25 plus $8 processing, by mail, or at a county vital records office; a physical government photo ID is required and standard processing can take up to ten weeks.
Indigent ID Card
Reduced-cost Georgia ID for people who cannot pay the normal fee. Get a voucher from an approved nonprofit Indigent Resource Provider, fill out the License/ID/Permit form online, then bring your documents to any DDS customer service center. A shelter or halfway-house letter dated within six months counts as proof of residency.
Utah Driver License Division
Issues Utah identification cards and driver licenses. An ID card is $23 and a regular Class D license is $52. Documents must be originals or certified copies; photocopies and hospital birth certificates are not accepted. The division has a separate intake form for homelessness service providers helping clients get an ID.
211 Illinois
Free information and referral line for every Illinois resident needing non-emergency help with housing, utilities, food, mental health, or health care. Dial 211 or text your zip code any time of day.
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.
Pacific Garden Mission
Chicago's oldest rescue mission, with separate shelters for men, women, and mothers with children plus addiction recovery and meals. Men's intake runs weekday mornings on a first-come basis; women's beds rarely run out.
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.
Legal Aid Chicago
Free civil legal help for low-income Cook County residents. All new clients register by phone with the Client Screening Unit, which checks eligibility before assigning a case.
Helping Hands of Springfield
Emergency shelter with 200 beds and cots nightly for single adults and families in Sangamon County, plus transitional and permanent housing programs and meals for guests. The phone is answered around the clock.
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.
Prairie State Legal Services
Free civil legal aid across 36 northern and central Illinois counties including Winnebago and Peoria, with a dedicated domestic violence line and an eviction help line. Apply through your local office or online via Illinois Legal Aid Online.
Division of Vital Records
State office for certified Illinois birth certificates. Order by mail with a copy of valid photo ID and a check to IDPH; mail processing takes about 12 weeks, so the county clerk where you were born is usually faster.
Illinois State ID Card
State law waives the ID card fee for people released from IDOC, Juvenile Justice, a federal prison in Illinois, or a county jail; for homeless applicants with an affirmation from a qualified person; and for youth in DCFS care ages 16 to 21. Apply at any Driver Services facility.
ABE – Application for Benefits Eligibility
Illinois's portal and call center for SNAP, cash assistance, and Medicaid. Apply online or by paper form IL444-2378B; applications are reviewed at a local Family Community Resource Center, and emergency SNAP can be ready within five days.
Michigan 211
Free statewide information line that connects anyone in Michigan to local help with housing, food, utility bills, transportation, and clothing. Dial 211 or text your ZIP code to be matched with programs near you.
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.