Local resource map

Find family resources near you.

Open your county to see verified local help: food banks, housing, healthcare, childcare, utilities, and more. Everything here is free to use and built to respect your privacy.

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Local resources, mapped county by county.

Click your state, then your county, to see family resources in your area. From food and housing to childcare, health, technology, and more.

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Resource Directory

Start with your county.

Help is local, so the listings are too. Pick your state and county and we will take you straight to what is available near you, sorted by what you need: food, diapers, healthcare, childcare, housing, and bills.

Not sure of your county? Use the map above, or check the county named on your mail.

Before you call

How to use this list without wasting a trip.

A list of names and numbers only helps if you know what each one does and what to ask for. Here is what we would tell a friend.

A food bank is not a food pantry

People use the words interchangeably, and it costs families a wasted drive.

A food bank is a warehouse. It collects food in bulk and supplies the smaller sites in its region. Most food banks do not hand out groceries to families at the door, and many serve dozens of counties from one building that may be hours away from you.

A food pantry is where a family actually picks up food. It is usually run by a church, school, or community group, it is close to home, and it keeps limited hours, sometimes only one morning a week.

If a listing covers your whole region, treat it as the place to ask where to go, not the place to show up. Call and say: I live in [your town], where is the closest pantry to me and when is it open?

What the listing does and does not tell you

Every listing shows an address, a phone number where we have one, and the hours we could find. Most now show a "Who it is for" line so you can see the general rules before you call.

What it cannot tell you is what is true today. Hours change, programs run out of funding, and a site can close for a week without updating anything public. We refresh this data monthly, not in real time, which is why nearly every listing carries a note asking you to call ahead.

The verified date on a listing is the last time we checked the source, not a promise that the doors are open right now.

Turning a list into a plan

Having twenty phone numbers can feel worse than having none. A short plan makes it manageable.

Name the need and the deadline. "Diapers by Friday" is something you can act on. "Everything is falling apart" is not. Pick the one thing that is most urgent this week and start there.
Call 211 first if you are not sure where to start. Dial 211 from any phone, free and confidential, and a person will look up what is open near you right now. They often know about help that never makes it onto any list.
Pick three to call, not one. The first number may not answer, may have a waitlist, or may not serve your zip code. Three gives you a real chance of getting through today.
Ask the same four questions every time. Do I qualify? What do I need to bring? When can I come? If you cannot help, who else should I call? That last question is the one that opens doors, because staff know their local network better than any directory does.
Write down what you are told, with the date and the name of the person. When you get handed to the next office, being able to say "I spoke with Maria on Tuesday and she sent me here" saves you starting over.
Ask about the next thing while you are there. A pantry visit is a good moment to ask about WIC, utility help, or childcare. Most of these programs sit in the same buildings and the staff can often sign you up on the spot.

If you are in immediate danger or crisis, do not work a list. Call 988 for mental health crisis support, or 1-800-799-7233 for domestic violence, any time of day.

Tell us what is missing

What would actually help you?

We built this from public records, which means it has gaps we cannot see from here. If a listing was wrong, if the place you needed is not here, or if there is something the site should do that it does not, tell us. We read every one of these.

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