Community resources
Need a little extra help? Use the information below to find low-and no-cost community resources when you need them.
Community resources directory
The Thrive Community Resources directory includes housing, health care, food and nutrition, employment services, education programs and more.
NH Care Connections
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) offers help finding social care resources through NH Care Connections.
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Housing resources
- Caritas Communities Provides very low-income individuals with permanent housing in Greater Boston.
- Housing-Consumer Education Center (HCEC)
- Housing Navigator Massachusetts Get help finding an affordable housing rental.
- Massachusetts housing assistance guide
- Metrolist Boston's primary resource for income-restricted housing.
- Public housing programs
- Rental Assistance Housing Vouchers
- Residential Assistance for Families in Transition Program (RAFT) Emergency help for rent, utilities, moving costs, or mortgage payments.
- NH Housing Finance Authority housing search tool: search for housing by county, town, type, and if accessible.
- Community Action Partnership of NH: lists services provided by Community Action Programs and includes a lookup tool
- DHHS Homeless Services: emergency shelter/resources
- Fellowship Housing Opportunities: housing assistance for those with mental illness.
- Harbor Care: prioritizes its housing for veterans and individuals and families living with disabilities, behavioral health disorders or chronic illness.
- NH Regional Access Points for homelessness support: provides location and contact information for all community resources in NH assisting with homelessness
Homeless and emergency shelters
- The Bancroft House Franconia
- Belknap House Laconia
- The Bridge House Plymouth
- Carey House Laconia
- Cross Roads House Portsmouth
- Emergency Winter Shelter Concord
- Families in Transition Concord, Manchester
- Family Promise of Greater Concord
- Family Promise Hudson
- Farnum Center Manchester
- Friends Emergency Housing Program Concord
- The Front Door Agency Nashua
- Green Mountain Treatment Center Effingham
- Helping Hands Outreach Center Manchester
- Home for Now Rochester
- Hundred Nights Emergency Shelter Keene
- The Joshua House Greenland
- Marguerite's Place Nashua
- McKenna House Concord
- The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
- My Friend's Place Dover
- Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter
- New Generation Greenland
- Riverbend Community Mental Health Center Concord
- Southern NH Rescue Mission Nashua
- Southwestern Community Services Claremont
- Tyler Blain Shelter Lancaster
- Waypoint Concord, Dover, Manchester
Public Housing Authorities
- Berlin Housing Authority
- Claremont Housing Authority
- Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority
- Derry Housing and Redevelopment Authority
- Dover Housing Authority
- Exeter Housing Authority
- Keene Housing Authority
- Laconia Housing Authority
- Lebanon Housing Authority
- Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority
- Nashua Housing and Redevelopment Authority
- New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
- Newmarket Housing Authority
- Portsmouth Housing Authority
- Rochester Housing Authority
- Salem Housing Authority
- Somersworth Housing Authority
Cell phone service
Foster care
Help with utility bills
Job support and educational training
Transportation
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