235 services in Berks County. The programs in Berks County that help with food, rent, bills, health care, legal trouble, a ride, child care or a benefit, and how to reach each one.
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Berks Community Action Program runs the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Program, which supports, counsels and challenges fathers to become strong and positive role models within their families. The…
From Berks Community Action Program
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The Berks County Intermediate Unit’s ELECT program helps pregnant and parenting young people work toward a high school diploma or GED while raising their children. Services are free and support young…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
Countywide
The Partners in Parenting Program, known as PIP, is run by Berks County Children & Youth Services and uses experienced foster parents to teach parents practical, hands-on parenting skills. The goals…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
Reading
The Family Center at Berks Community Action Program runs parenting classes that give moms and dads tools to strengthen their parenting skills, using the evidence-based Systematic Training for…
From Berks Community Action Program
Reading
Berks County Children and Youth Services provides adoption services to children in the agency's custody, and points people who want to adopt toward the outside agencies that prepare families. When…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
Fleetwood
CONCERN Professional Services for Children helps children and youth in foster care find a permanent family, and works with families who want to adopt one of them. As an affiliate of the PA Statewide…
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Reading
Berks County Children and Youth Services approves resource parents, also called foster parents, to care for children the agency places in their homes. A foster family provides care, nurturing and…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
Reading
CHOR Youth & Family Services places children and teens with foster families in Berks County and surrounding areas, and trains and supports the adults who open their homes. Foster care provides…
From CHOR Youth & Family Services
Mechanicsburg · Any related fees
Diakon Adoption & Foster Care prepares and supports families who want to become resource families, meaning foster families, legal-risk (foster-to-adopt) families or adoptive families, for children…
From Diakon Adoption & Foster Care
Reading · Taking applications
Berks County Children and Youth Services takes reports about children in Berks County who may be abused or neglected, and its staff investigate all reports of child maltreatment in the county. The…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
Countywide
CONCERN Professional Services for Children, Youth, and Families runs a group of community-based programs meant to help keep or reunite children with their families and community, and they are…
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Countywide
CONCERN Professional Services for Children places children who cannot live with their birth parents in foster homes, and recruits, trains and supports the families who take them in. Foster parents…
From CONCERN Professional Services for Children
Reading
Berks County Children and Youth Services works with families in their own homes after a report of child abuse or neglect, so that children can stay safely where they are instead of being placed…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
Countywide · By referral only
CHOR Youth & Family Services runs a Specialized Foster Care program that provides specialized resource families and In-Home Interventionist services for clients with maladaptive sexual behaviors…
From CHOR Youth & Family Services
Tulpehocken Area School District names staff to contact with questions about children and youth who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. All questions or inquiries go to Taylor…
From Tulpehocken Area School District
Bethel
Tulpehocken Area School District has a Coordinator of Student and Family Support Services who helps district students and their families with food, health coverage paperwork and connections to other…
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Antietam School District has a staff liaison for students who are experiencing homelessness, meaning students without a fixed, regular and adequate place to sleep at night, as defined under the…
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The Exeter Township School District works each year with students and families who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity, offering them services, resources and transportation so…
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Antietam School District has a Foster Care Liaison who works with county children and youth agency staff to decide which school is best for a child in foster care and to arrange transportation to…
From Antietam School District
The Student Assistance Program at Exeter Township School District is a process for identifying, assisting and supporting students who may be experiencing barriers to learning because of academic…
From Exeter Township School District
Schuylkill Valley School District has a homeless liaison who helps students who are going through housing problems get and stay in school under the federal McKinney-Vento Act. You may qualify if you…
From Schuylkill Valley School District
Countywide
The Berks County Intermediate Unit provides technical assistance and professional development related to the education of foster care youth, who frequently change schools in ways that disrupt their…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
Daniel Boone Area School District helps students who do not have stable housing stay in school, using the rights given by the federal McKinney-Vento Act and the Pennsylvania Education for Children…
From Daniel Boone Area School District
Governor Mifflin School District helps children and youth who have lost their housing stay connected to school through McKinney-Vento services, part of the district's Student Services department.…
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs a One-To-One mentoring program that matches a child with an adult volunteer who spends time with that child for at least one year. The agency calls it…
From Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County
Reading
The Berks County Intermediate Unit runs the Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness program, known as ECYEH, which helps children and youth who do not have stable housing get and…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
Fleetwood
Fleetwood Area School District has a homeless liaison who helps children and teens who do not have stable housing stay in school, enroll right away, and get free lunch and help with school costs.…
From Fleetwood Area School District
Reading
Muhlenberg School District has a social worker in each of its four schools and a district liaison for homelessness who help students who do not have a fixed, regular and adequate place to sleep at…
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Reading School District has a Families in Transition social worker who helps children and teens who do not have stable housing stay enrolled in and attend school under the federal McKinney-Vento…
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Hamburg
Hamburg Area School District has a Homeless Liaison who works with students and families experiencing homelessness so that losing stable housing does not keep a child out of school. The liaison is…
From Hamburg Area School District
Topton
Brandywine Heights Area School District helps students who do not have a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime place to live keep going to school, through the McKinney-Vento Act and the district's…
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Receive free lunch
Boyertown Area School District helps children and youth who do not have stable housing stay in school, enroll right away, and get support such as transportation, free lunch, and help with school…
From Boyertown Area School District
Kutztown
The Kutztown Area School District's McKinney-Vento / Helping Hands program is the district's Student & Family Support Program, serving K-12 students who are experiencing homelessness and other life…
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West Lawn
Wilson School District posts a notice explaining that children and youth who are homeless have the same right to a free public education as other students, including the right to keep attending the…
From Wilson School District
Topton
The Brandywine Heights Area School District has a Social Services Coordinator who helps students and their families with problems outside the classroom that get in the way of learning. The…
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The Daniel Boone Area School District runs a Student Assistance Program, called SAP, a school-based team that helps families connect with school and community resources when a child is struggling.…
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The Schuylkill Valley School District runs a Student Assistance Program, known as SAP, that identifies students who are having behavior or academic difficulties that stand in the way of their…
From Schuylkill Valley School District
West Lawn
The Student Supports and Services Department at Wilson School District covers the parts of a student's school experience outside the classroom curriculum. That includes registration and child…
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Lorane Elementary School and Jacksonwald Elementary School in the Exeter Township School District use federal Title I money to give students extra instruction on top of their regular classes, based…
From Exeter Township School District
Reading
Muhlenberg School District has a Parent & Family Outreach Coordinator, Elizabeth Laviena, and publishes a list of community organizations that help families with food, health care, housing…
From Muhlenberg School District
Countywide · Taking applications
United Way of Berks County runs 211, the number to call when you need help finding health and human services in Berks County. A trained information and referral specialist answers your call or text…
From United Way of Berks County
Countywide
United Way of Berks County runs a Get Help page that lists the main phone numbers and programs to call in Berks County for food, housing, utilities, prescriptions, jobs and mental health, and it…
From United Way of Berks County
Countywide
The Exeter Township School District publishes the ETSD Resource Guide, an online list of places in Berks County and nearby counties that offer mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, food…
From Exeter Township School District
West Lawn
Wilson School District keeps a section of its website called Recursos en Espanol that gathers district information, videos, guides, forms and documents in Spanish. It was created for the district's…
From Wilson School District
Reading
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services runs employment and training programs for people who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, known as TANF, to help you go back to school or…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Reading
The Resource Room at PA CareerLink Berks County is a self-service center open to the public, with computers and materials to help you look for work. It is open to the public, so no referral or…
From PA CareerLink Berks County
Countywide
Reading Area Community College runs a state program called KEYS, short for Keystone Education Yields Success, that helps people who get Cash Assistance or Food Stamps attend college and finish a…
From Reading Area Community College
Countywide · Not taking applications right now
Berks County Community Foundation runs one universal scholarship application: a single online form that matches your answers to the scholarship or scholarships for which you qualify. The 2026…
From Berks County Community Foundation
Reading · Taking applications
The Financial Aid Lab at Reading Area Community College gives in person help filling out college aid applications, including the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the PHEAA State Grant…
From Reading Area Community College
Reading
Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center runs Centering Pregnancy, prenatal care given in a group setting that includes self-monitoring and extended time with the provider. It brings together…
From Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center