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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…
From Tulpehocken Area School District
Reading
The Homeless Assistance Program at Berks Community Action Program helps families who are homeless or facing homelessness through eviction or other circumstances by making a rental-related payment…
From Berks Community Action Program
Reading
The Berks Coalition to End Homelessness runs Coordinated Entry, one assessment that measures what a person or family experiencing homelessness needs and refers them to the community resources that…
From Berks Coalition to End Homelessness
Reading
Hope Rescue Mission runs the LightHouse Women & Children's Center at 715 North Sixth Street in Reading, a shelter for single women and for women with children who have nowhere to stay. The center…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Reading · Not taking applications right now
The Berks County Housing Authority (BCHA) owns and manages 209 public housing units, apartments and duplex-style townhouses, spread across 9 developments in Berks County, and rents them to households…
From Berks County Housing Authority
Countywide
The Redevelopment Authority of the County of Berks runs the Major Systems Program, which helps low-income families who own and live in their home pay to repair or replace a major system of the house.…
From Redevelopment Authority of the County of Berks
Reading
The Budget Center at Berks Community Action Program offers budget counseling to anyone who needs help regardless of the circumstances. Its counselors handle rental and utilities assistance, home…
From Berks Community Action Program
Countywide
Habitat for Humanity of Berks County runs a First-Time Home Buyer Program that gives individuals and families the chance to own a fully renovated or newly built home when they would not qualify for a…
From Habitat for Humanity of Berks County
Countywide · Taking applications
Dollar Energy Fund gives one-time grants that are applied directly to the electric bill of customers of Met-Ed and the other FirstEnergy companies in Pennsylvania, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn…
From Dollar Energy Fund
Countywide · Seasonal
The LIHEAP Emergency Services Program, formerly known as the LIHEAP Crisis Interface Program, pays for emergency heating repairs and replacements for Pennsylvania households with low incomes. The…
From Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission publishes guidance and a standard form that customers and medical professionals can use when a medical condition in the household is a reason to keep a…
From Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Countywide
Berks County Public Libraries lends portable Wi-Fi hotspots that cardholders can check out from select library locations and use to get online at home or away from home. You need a Berks County…
From Berks County Public Libraries
Shoemakersville · Free and Anonymous
Keystone Military Families runs a food bank and pantry at 331 Main St. REAR, Shoemakersville, PA 19555, giving nutritious food to military families and veterans. The group lists the service as free…
From Keystone Military Families
Countywide
Helping Harvest runs a Mobile Market Program that brings nutritious produce, dairy and meats to neighborhood sites in Berks and Schuylkill Counties, where staff and volunteers hand the food directly…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Countywide
SNAP, formerly called food stamps, helps Pennsylvanians buy groceries with an EBT Card, and you can apply through your local county assistance office, which in Berks County is the Berks County…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Countywide · Seasonal
The Summer Food Service Program, run nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and administered in Pennsylvania by the Department of Education, provides free, nutritious meals to children when…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
Countywide · Access to a free nutritionist
Maternal and Family Health Services runs the WIC Nutrition Program, which helps families buy healthy groceries and gives them nutrition support during pregnancy and while their children are small.…
From Maternal and Family Health Services
Reading
The Berks County Assistance Office is the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services office in Reading where county residents apply for and renew state benefits. Pennsylvania offers assistance and…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Countywide
Cash assistance is a group of programs from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, handled locally by county assistance offices such as the Berks County Assistance Office, that give temporary…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) runs the Veterans Temporary Assistance (VTA) Program, which gives temporary financial assistance of up to $1,600 in a 12-month…
From Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Countywide
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank helps residents of Berks and Schuylkill counties apply for SNAP benefits, the food assistance many people still call food stamps. The help is for people who live in…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Countywide · Not taking applications right now
Family Promise of Berks County runs a Rent & Utility Assistance Program that offers emergency financial assistance to help families facing eviction or utility shut-off stay in their homes. That help…
From Family Promise of Berks County
Reading
Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services offers help with burial or cremation costs for people who meet its eligibility rules. The local County Assistance Office determines eligibility. In Berks…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Reading · Taking applications
Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center has sexual assault nurse examiners, called SANEs, on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to care for victims of sexual assault. They are registered…
From Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center
Reading
Berks County Family Court posts custody and divorce forms, local filing instructions and lawyer referral information for people who go to court in Berks County without a lawyer. The forms and…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General takes complaints from people who believe a business, a scammer, a health care provider, an employer or someone else has treated them wrongly. The office…
From Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
Countywide
MidPenn Legal Services helps low-income people in Berks County with problems involving public benefit programs, so they can provide for themselves and their families. Its lawyers provide free…
From MidPenn Legal Services
Reading · All services are provided free of charge
The Victim/Witness Assistance Unit of the Berks County District Attorney's Office helps victims and witnesses of crime, and their immediate family members, through the court process. Staff act as…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
Reading
The Victim/Witness Assistance Unit of the Berks County District Attorney's Office helps crime victims open a claim with the Victims Compensation Assistance Program, known as VCAP, which pays back…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
Reading
ALDEA - The People's Justice Center runs a low bono program that provides immigration legal representation at rates far below private market costs, with payment plans shaped to each person or family.…
From ALDEA - The People's Justice Center
Reading
Mary's Shelter in Reading is the site for the Berks County Diaper Bank, which hands out diapers to families one day each month. The program began as a pilot with five local agencies in 2016 with 15…
From Mary's Shelter
Birdsboro
Birdsboro Church of the Nazarene runs the Community Clothing Closet, which provides clothing free of charge to individuals and families in need. It is the church's largest in-house ministry, has been…
From Birdsboro Church of the Nazarene
Countywide · By referral only
Rudden Family Services, a program of The Rudden Family Foundation, Inc., runs The Essentials, which takes in donated clothing, furniture, appliances and other household items and gives them to…
From The Rudden Family Foundation
Countywide · By referral only
Wheels For Change is a program of The Rudden Family Foundation, also called Rudden Family Services, that takes donated vehicles, repairs them and places them with a person or family living in poverty…
From The Rudden Family Foundation
Countywide
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
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
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…
From CONCERN Professional Services for Children
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
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
Countywide · Our program is free .
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
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