Community resources

Finding Support in Your Community

  • Waypoint NH: Offers programs in Southern and Central NH for children of all ages and their families.
  • Dept. of Health and Human Services: Information on the state’s foster care program along with a list of agencies that provide foster family care in New Hampshire.
  • Family Resource Centers: Helps parents and their children, from pregnancy to age 18.
  • NH Family Voices: Provides free services to families and professionals caring for children with long-lasting conditions and/or disabilities.

  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England: Provides family planning services and resources such as birth control, emergency contraceptive, women's health services, and more. Click the link to find a location near you.

COVID-19 Food Resources

  • The Community Kitchen, Keene: Grab-and-Go dinners and lunches available
    Gather: Holding Meals 4 Kids events every Tuesday-Thursday. Locations in Rochester, Hampton, Seabrook and Portsmouth.
  • SAU 19, Keene: Serving school meals available to all students at two locations in Keene. Breakfast & lunch available for pick-up at Keene HS & Franklin School.
  • SHARE Outreach, Keene: Delivering frozen meals and created food care packages that will provide 3-4 days of food and providing grab & go meals.
  • Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, Nashua: Running an Emergency Mobile Food Pantry, offering to-go meals for dinner/lunch. Pantry still operating with to-go bags and boxes.
  • Families in Transition-New Horirizons, Manchester: Pantry is distributing boxes of non-perishable food items by appointment only
  • St. Joseph Community Services, Inc., Nashua: Adjusting their dining program at all locations so that meals need to be picked up and consumed at home. This will not affect Meals on Wheel.
  • Franklin Food Pantry, Franklin: By appointment, a staff member will bring prepackaged bags to their car or through walk up services.
  • SAU 8, Concord: Any Concord child up to age 18 can received a free, bagged lunch at one of the designated sites.
  • Soneshine Soup Kitchen, Derry: Serving to go meals, Monday through Friday 4:30-5:00 at the dining room entrance.
  • St. Vincent DePaul Community Assistance, Exeter: Making prepackaged bags to bring out to cars. Call ahead required
  • SAU 6, Claremont: Mobile Food Stations will be open for breakfast from 8:00am to 9:30am and lunch 12:00pm to 1:30pm. Breakfast and lunch will be free to all children under the age of 18.
  • SAU 11, Dover: Two meals a day will be provided to students.
  • Tri-County CAP, Berlin, Whitefield: Senior Meals Program will be providing take-out meals.
  • Gerry's Food Pantry: Drive-thru basis for regular clients every Monday and Friday

Everyday Food Resources

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Transgender Clinic: 1-603-650-8630
  • GLAD: Advocates to end discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and expression.
  • PFLAG-NH: Provide resources for NH's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender residents.

  • Belknap-Merrimack Community Action: Helps low-income families and the elderly to become financially and socially independent.
  • NH211: Provides NH residents with information about critical health and human services available in their community.
  • Southern New Hampshire Services: Provide activities to Southern New Hampshire residents that are designed to assist low-income participants.
  • Tri-county Community Action: Helps residents achieve self-sufficiency and maintain financial stability.
  • Strafford County Cap: To educate, advocate for and assist people in Strafford County to help meet their basic needs and promote self-sufficiency.
  • Southwestern Community Services: Provide direct assistance, reduce stressors, and advocate for low income people and families.

  • Healthy Homes: A resource to find help about lead, drinking water, asthma, radon, bed bugs, secondhand smoke, carbon monoxide, fire prevention, weatherization, mold, and insects.
  • Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority: Provides public housing, help paying for housing, and home ownership programs along with other services.
  • NH Housing Finance Authority: Supports affordable housing for New Hampshire residents.
  • NH Coalition: Information on homeless shelters and other resources in the state.

  • NH Employment Security: Provides services for job seekers and employers.
  • NH Works: Helps New Hampshire residents gain skills, education, employment, and financial independence.
  • Vocational Rehabilitation: Provides rehabilitation services to NH residents with disabilities to help them find jobs.

NH Legal Assistance: Offers legal services to seniors and eligible low-income persons for civil matters.

  • National Alliance on Mental Illness:  Helps those with mental illness access integrated healthcare and community-based support.
  • New Hampshire Rapid Response Access Point: The NHRRAP provides individuals in the state of New Hampshire with immediate, 24/7 access to mental health and/or substance use crisis support via telephone, text and chat services.
  • New Hampshire Statewide Addiction Crisis Line: 1-844-711-4357
  • New Hampshire Treatment Locator: Information on treatment providers as well as other resources throughout NH
  • SAMHSA Treatment Locator: Helps find providers and resources for behavioral health services, including drug and alcohol treatment
  • QuitNow-NH: Find resources and educational materials on how to quit smoking

NH community mental health centers