2-1-1 Connecting People in Need with Community Services

Call 211 for emergency help with affordable housing and basic human needs, help with addiction prevention programs for teenage children, help for aging parents, for identifying support groups, and much more (see below). Services are provided by United Way Worldwide and the Alliance for Information and Referral Systems (AIRS).

Services:

  • Basic Human Needs Resource: food banks, clothing, shelters, rent assistance, utility assistance.
  • Physical and Mental Health Resources: medical information lines, crisis intervention services, support groups, counseling, drug and alcohol intervention, rehabilitation, health insurance programs, Medicaid and Medicare, maternal health, children’s health insurance programs.
  • Employment Support: unemployment benefits, financial assistance, job training, transportation assistance, education programs.
  • Support for Older Americans and Persons with Disabilities: home health care, adult day care, congregate meals, Meals on Wheels, respite care, transportation, and homemaker services.
  • Support for Children, Youth and Families: Quality childcare, Success by 6, after school programs, Head Start, family resource centers, summer camps and recreation programs, mentoring, tutoring, protective services.
  • Volunteer opportunities and donations.

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Comments

  1. Lisa says:

    No help at all. Me and my girls will have to live on the streets

    • Alana says:

      Do not feel bad. I live in shreveport la and every homeless shelter I called had no room for a mother and children. I called them all locally for 2 weeks. I was forced back into an abusive relationship just to survive. I had shattered my ankle and had to have surgery which is the cause for the mess I had to deal with. 211 basically told me my only option was to leave my daughter with her father whom I couldnt take out of the city due to joint custody with her father and move a minimum of 5hrs away just to go live in a homeless shelter. There is extremely limited help for single mothers in my area. Oh 211 told me if I had a drug addiction they could get myself and my son in somewhere. Unbeievable.

  2. Rayann brown says:

    Me an my boy have to sleep in a car an I don’t even kno who the car for we just sleep in it.

  3. brittnie hood says:

    me and my daughter is sleeping in the laundry room of my old apt building and im 5months pregnant i leave out every morning b4 the cleaning lady comes we dnt own much clothes i eat through my friends my family abandit me so have the father of my kids im 21 yrs old and i need help i dnt kno how to get into a shelter we lost everything and my daughter birthday is in 2weeks and she will be one i really need some help

  4. Clarisa says:

    Where do you guys live? I can give you info on shelters

  5. tasia says:

    I’m 21 wit a 1 yr old and I need a job,car,daycare, and some place to stay. I have been looking for a job for almost a yr now and still no luck. I have looked into many oter programs and none of them have been able to help me. So wats the point of all these programs id they dnt help wit ALL problems single mothers face?

  6. christina says:

    I’m 21 and a single mom of a two year old lookin for a roomate to pay 550 your own bathroom

  7. missy says:

    im also 21 with a 2 yr old… please email me pnkfairy1@aol.com

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