Regional Help

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Find helpful support and services aligned with ACF’s programs and initiatives, including, TANF, Child Welfare, Child Support, Head Start, crisis services, tribal community support and more. Access to vital resources empowers families and individuals and promotes their well-being, stability, and growth. Explore the links below to find the support you need.

National Resources

National Domestic Violence Hotline  

800-799-SAFE (7233)
TTY 800-787-3224

The Hotline serves as the only domestic violence hotline in the nation with access to more than 4,000 shelters and domestic violence programs across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Hotline is toll-free, confidential and anonymous. It operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in more than 170 different languages through interpreter services, with a TTY line available for the deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing.

Hotline staff are also available to provide assistance in a variety of areas including media, public relations, fundraising, public policy, legal advocacy and public education and training.

National Human Trafficking Resource Center  

888-373-7888

The National Human Trafficking Resource Center is a national, toll-free hotline, available to answer calls from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

The resource center serves survivors of labor trafficking and sex trafficking. U.S. law defines human trafficking as the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel a person into commercial sex acts or labor against their will.

National Runaway Switchboard  

800-RUNAWAY (800-786-2929)

All calls to the National Runaway Switchboard are confidential and free 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They won't tell you what to do and we're not here to give out advice. They help you help yourself by taking through problems and help you find a plan of action.

National Child Support Locator

The locator can help find child support assistance through a quick zip code search.

 

National Head Start (ECLKC) Locator

The locator can help find local Head Start program(s) through a quick zip code search.

 

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (988)

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline provides resources and information to help states, territories, tribes, and others looking to strengthen suicide prevention and mental health crisis services.

 

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available by calling or texting 988 or chatting online at 988lifeline.org.

Delaware

Delaware Child Care
Supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care.

Delaware Child Support
Assures assistance in obtaining support (financial and medical) is available to children through locating parents and establishing paternity.

Delaware Child Welfare
Provides for the safety, permanency, and well being of children.

Delaware Head Start and Early Head Start
Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services.

Delaware Runaway and Homeless Youth
Assists youth who have run away from home or have become homeless for other reasons.

Delaware Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 
Provides assistance and work opportunities to needy families. The assistance is time-limited and promotes work, responsibility and self-sufficiency.

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Child Care
Supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care

District of Columbia Child Support
Assures that assistance in obtaining support (financial and medical) is available to children through locating parents and establishing paternity

District of Columbia Child Welfare
Provides for the safety, permanency, and well being of children.

District of Columbia Head Start and Early Head Start
Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services.

District of Columbia Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family and Youth Services Bureau - Runaway and Homeless Youth
Assists youth who have run away from home or have become homeless for other reasons.

District of Columbia Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Provides assistance and work opportunities to needy families. The assistance is time-limited and promotes work, responsibility, and self-sufficiency.

Maryland

Maryland Child Care
Supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care.

Maryland Child Support
Assures that assistance in obtaining support (financial and medical) is available to children through locating parents and establishing paternity.

Maryland Child Welfare
Provides for the safety, permanency, and well being of children.

Maryland Head Start and Early Head Start
Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services.

Maryland Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family and Youth Services Bureau - Runaway and Homeless Youth

Assists youth who have run away from home or have become homeless for other reasons.

Maryland Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Provides assistance and work opportunities to needy families. The assistance is time-limited and promotes work, responsibility and self-sufficiency.


Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Child Care
Supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care.

Pennsylvania Child Support
Assures that assistance in obtaining support (financial and medical) is available to children through locating parents and establishing paternity.

Pennsylvania Child Welfare

Provides for the safety, permanency, and well being of children.

Pennsylvania Head Start and Early Head Start
Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services.

Pennsylvania Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family and Youth Services Bureau - Runaway and Homeless Youth

Assists youth who have run away from home or have become homeless for other reasons.

Pennsylvania Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Provides assistance and work opportunities to needy families. The assistance is time-limited and promotes work, responsibility, and self-sufficiency.


Virginia

Virginia Child Care
Supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care.

Virginia Child Support
Assures that assistance in obtaining support (financial and medical) is available to children through locating parents and establishing paternity.

Virginia Child Welfare
Provides for the safety, permanency, and well being of children
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Virginia Head Start and Early Head Start
Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services.

Virginia Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family and Youth Services Bureau - Runaway and Homeless Youth

Assists youth who have run away from home or have become homeless for other reasons.

Virginia Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Provides assistance and work opportunities to needy families. The assistance is time-limited and promotes work, responsibility and self-sufficiency.


West Virginia

West Virginia Child Care
Supports low-income working families through child care financial assistance and promotes children's learning by improving the quality of early care.

West Virginia Child Support
Assures that assistance in obtaining support (financial and medical) is available to children through locating parents and establishing paternity.

West Virginia Child Welfare
Provides for the safety, permanency, and well being of children.

West Virginia Head Start and Early Head Start
Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services.

West Virginia Runaway and Homeless Youth
Family and Youth Services Bureau Runaway and Homeless Youth assists youth who have run away from home or have become homeless for other reasons.

West Virginia Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Provides assistance and work opportunities to needy families. The assistance is time-limited and promotes work, responsibility and self-sufficiency.