Regional Help

Current as of: January 21, 2025

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

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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.