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CalVet
Agency: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Helps veterans, their family members, and active duty service members connect to the state and federal benefits that they have earned through military service. Benefits include disability compensation, pension, housing, health, education (including dependents' college fee waiver), farm and home loans, and other benefits.For personalized assistance ...
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Education-Work Training
Agency: JOB CORPS
Provides education, career training, and an opportunity for youth to earn a high school diploma or the equivalent. Offers work-based learning opportunities for enrollees to receive on the job training at work sites. Provides housing, meals, basic medical care, and biweekly living allowances. Also provides job assistance and transitional support ser...
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Electronic Benefit Transfer Project (EBT)
Agency: CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
Provides customer service to those who have questions about or problems with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. Also assists those that have lost or had their card stolen.NOTE: It's important that customer call Customer Service as soon as possible! If someone uses customer's card and PIN to get benefits, these benefits will not be replac...
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Franchise Tax Board (FTB)
Agency: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FRANCHISE TAX BOARD (FTB)
Provides individuals with assistance on simple income tax form preparation. Also offers help with forms for homeowner and renter.
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Critical Assistance Program
Agency: OPERATION HOMEFRONT
Builds strong, stable, and secure military families through emergency financial assistance, housing, and recurrent family support programs.
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Disability Rehabilitation Services (DOR)
Agency: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION
Provides services and advocacy for individuals with disabilities. This allows them to live independently, become employed, and have equality in the communities in which they live and work. Services include: Evaluates to determine vocational potential Offers counseling to select vocational goals Provides referrals to training programs when necessary...
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Family PACT
Agency: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES (DHCS)
Provides no-cost family planning services to low-income men, women, and teens. Services include family planning services, pro-choice counseling, emergency contraception, health education and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Many doctors and clinics all over California are part of the Family PACT program.
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Job Assistance
Agency: HELMETS TO HARDHATS
Offers an online job search to connect military service members with career opportunities in the construction industry.
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License and Revenue
Agency: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE (CDFW)
Administers licenses, permits, stamps and tags consistent with statutory and regulatory requirements. Administers licenses and tags for hunting, permits for commercial fishing, and specialized fish and wildlife related activities. Discounted sport fishing licenses are available by mail for low income seniors, disabled veterans, recovering service m...
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Medicare Helpline
Agency: MEDICARE
Provides a national helpline and website to help with Medicare questions, enrollment, and information about Medicare health plans. Also provides recorded answers to frequently asked questions. Website provides referrals to local health care and home health care providers who accept Medicare, and information about how to file Medicare-related compla...
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Hear Now Program
Agency: THE STARKEY HEARING FOUNDATION
Provides hearing aids to low income individuals who permanently reside in the United States, and have no other resources to get hearing aids.
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Self-Sufficiency Grant
Agency: MODEST NEEDS
Offers grants designed to promote the self-sufficiency of individuals and families who, because they are working and live just above the poverty level, are ineligible for most types of conventional social assistance, but who are living one or two lost paychecks away from the kind of financial catastrophe that eventually leads to homelessness.Contac...
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Social Security Services
Agency: SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (SSA)
Administers Retirement, Survivors, Disability Insurance, Medicare, Title II, XVI and XVIII monies and Supplemental Security Income. Issues Social Security numbers and insures employer cooperation with various laws and regulations of programs by investigating, mediating and taking legal action when necessary.SOCIAL SECURITY provides continuing incom...
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State Disability Insurance
Agency: CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT (EDD)
Provides affordable, short-term benefits to eligible workers who suffer a loss of wages when they are unable to work due to a non work-related illness or injury, or a medically disabling condition from pregnancy or childbirth.
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Support Services
Agency: INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL OF CALIFORNIA (ITCC)
Victim Services - offers education, prevention and intervention/direct services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Services include: emergency shelter, food or clothing, restraining order assistance, legal advocacy and support, crisis intervention and peer counseling.Childcare Services - provides direct payments/vouchers to child ...
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Public Benefits Assistance
Agency: COALITION OF CALIFORNIA WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS (CCWRO)
Provides advice, co-counseling, forms-completion assistance, and representation on issues relating to public benefit programs such as CalWORKs, refugee assistance, food stamps, SSI, General Assistance, Medi-Cal, child care, and the welfare employment programs, litigation regarding these programs, and legislative/administrative advocacy.Offers train...
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Youth Employment Program
Agency: CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC)
Provides employment and training opportunities for young adults. Participants perform a variety of public service conservation projects. This includes: Trail building Tree planting Parks development Hazard mitigation Food and fire emergency assistanceBoth residential and non-residential programs are available statewide.
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Youth Transition Services
Agency: WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES
Helps teens and young adults who are blind or visually impaired explore career options and successfully transition to independent living, college or employment.
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In Home Support Services
Agency: NAPA COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY, COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULTS
Allows low income aged, blind, and disabled persons, who are at risk for out-of-home placement, to remain safely at home by providing payment for care provider services.IHSS care providers may provide personal care services such as: bathing and grooming, dressing, and toileting as well as domestic services such as: house cleaning, meal preparation ...
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2-1-1 Bay Area
Agency: UNITED WAY BAY AREA
Offers an ease to remember, toll-free phone number that connects callers with local community services, such as food, shelter, counseling, employment assistance, quality childcare and more. Its free, confidential, and available in over 150 languages. 2-1-1 also provides seasonal referrals for free tax preparation sites for low income households, fr...
