Resources
Along the Way
Community Doula Support Program
Community Doula Support Program
Along the Way started by providing free in-home child care in 2016, serving only low-income single mother families as an anti-poverty initiative. We had a theory that if we provided free child care to single mothers during nights and weekends when they could most readily find employment or take classes to continue their own education, we’d prodive the necessary support for the most under-resourced population to break the cycle of poverty for families. We were right!
Community Doula Support Program
Community Doula Support Program
Community Doula Support Program
phillylovesfamilies.com/doula-support
The Community Doula Support Program supports pregnant and postpartum parents, with a focus on those parents with a history of substance use disorder. The program offers individualized physical, emotional, and educational support throughout pregnancy, birth, and up to 12 months postpartum. Doula support is provided at no cost to you.
Community Legal Services
Community Doula Support Program
Homeless Advocacy Project
Our mission is to fight poverty, challenge systems that perpetuate injustice, and change lives through cutting-edge advocacy and exceptional legal representation.
Family Advocacy Unit (FAU) provides high quality interdisciplinary legal representation to parents in Philadelphia dependency proceedings, with the goal of strengthening families and keeping children safely at home. The FAU model incorporates direct representation, community outreach and education, and systemic legislative and policy advocacy for families involved in the child welfare system.
Homeless Advocacy Project
Homeless Advocacy Project
Homeless Advocacy Project
info@haplegal.org
800-837-2672
Phone: (215) 523-9595
HAP provides a wide spectrum of free legal assistance to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia. These services are relating to issues such as SSI, TANF, medical assistance, food stamps, veterans compensation and pension, upgrading veteran discharge characterization, custody and other family law issues, identity documentation, accessing shelter and other housing-related services, and more.
Maternity Care Coalition
Homeless Advocacy Project
Maternity Care Coalition
maternitycarecoalition.org/services
We center babies and their families by supporting, referring, educating, researching, and advocating. Our approach is radically family-centered and collaborative. We believe our families are the experts of their own experience and support them in recognizing their strengths and accomplishing their goals. At all levels of our work, we nurture respectful relationships, promote self-determination, and ensure diverse voices are heard.
Philly Joy Bank
Homeless Advocacy Project
Maternity Care Coalition
Philly Joy Bank’s pilot provides 250 pregnant Philadelphians with $1,000 per month from the second trimester of pregnancy through one year after birth.
Families will also be offered voluntary assistance including financial counseling, home visits, doula help, and lactation support.
Eligibility: Over 18 years old, Between 12-24 weeks pregnant, Reside in Nicetown-Tioga, Strawberry Mansion, or Cobbs Creek (West of 50th Street between Market Street and Baltimore Avenue). Use the map tool to confirm your home address qualifies.
Philly LIFTS
Temple Legal Aid Clinic
Philly Food Finder
The Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction's program Philly LIFTS exists to support the families of infants diagnosed with NAS, along with families affected by substance use disorder. The team provides the following: counseling for children and adults, support groups, baby supplies, clothing, employment assistance, overdose prevention training, and referrals to food and home visiting programs including a public health nurse.
For additional information about organizations providing support to Philadelphians, check out our lists of community resources for children and adults.
Temple Legal Aid Clinic
Temple Legal Aid Clinic
Temple Legal Aid Clinic
sites.temple.edu/tlao/for-our-clients/
We are here to serve low income Philadelphians with legal problems. You will work with our law students, staff, and attorneys to address your legal problems.We specialize in two main areas:
We help people with custody, support, and adoption matters;We help people with HIV, cancer, and/or physical disabilities with their legal problems. We can help you directly with many SSI or Social Security matters, public benefits issues, health insurance problems, living wills, powers of attorney, and several other issues. If we cannot help you directly, we will give you information about other legal services programs that may be able to help.
Why Not Prosper
Why Not Prosper
Temple Legal Aid Clinic
We are a grassroots 501 C (3) organization founded by a formerly incarcerated woman for formerly incarcerated women. We are strong advocates for women and we are committed to providing programs and services that support women in their re-entry efforts from prison to community. We provide a continuum of programs that includes Pre-Release Mentoring to incarcerated women, residential services at Why Not Prosper House and community services at our Resource Center located in Philadelphia PA.