122 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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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…
From Exeter Township School District
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
Communities In Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania places a Site Coordinator inside partner schools to connect students with the help they need to stay in school and learn, and Reading School District…
From Communities In Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania
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.…
From Governor Mifflin School District
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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
CHOR Youth & Family Services runs two prevention programs for students in the Reading School District: Project PEACE, a youth-led group that works to curb youth violence and drug use, and Kids…
From CHOR Youth & Family Services
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…
From Muhlenberg School District
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…
From Reading School District
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…
From Brandywine Heights Area School District
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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…
From Kutztown Area School District
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
Countywide
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs SMART, Students & Mentors Achieving Results Together, a mentoring program that takes place entirely inside certain Berks County schools. A mentor meets…
From Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County
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…
From Brandywine Heights Area School District
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.…
From Daniel Boone Area School District
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…
From Wilson School District
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
Countywide
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs COUL, the Club of Unmatched Littles, a group mentoring program that holds supervised activities every week for children who are enrolled with the agency…
From Big Brothers Big Sisters 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
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
Penn Township
Berks Community Health Center is your child's medical home both for when they are sick and well, from infancy through adolescence. Board-certified family physicians or nurse practitioners care for…
From Berks Community Health Center
West Reading
Reading Hospital Family Health Care Center is a family medicine office in West Reading that treats patients of every age, from newborn checkups to senior care, and serves as the first stop for new…
From Reading Hospital
Countywide
Berks Community Health Center offers your entire family primary and preventive health care services, from newborn visits through care for senior citizens. Your primary care provider and their whole…
From Berks Community Health Center
West Reading
Reading Hospital Children's Health Center is a pediatric office in West Reading that cares for children from newborn through age 18. Its stated mission is to provide compassionate, accessible…
From Reading Hospital
Reading
Reading Hospital's Street Medicine Program brings primary and preventative care directly to people who are unsheltered, living in a shelter, or at high risk of becoming homeless, with clinics at…
From Reading Hospital
Reading
Medicaid, also known as Medical Assistance, pays for health care services for eligible individuals, and the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services takes applications online, in person at the Berks…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Reading
Berks Community Health Center offers affordable dental care for children and adults at its Rockland location in Reading. Care includes cleanings, preventive care, annual exams, school exams…
From Berks Community Health Center
Reading · Taking applications
Safe Berks answers a hotline and text line at any hour for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Berks County. The hotline number is 1-844-789-SAFE (7233), and you can also text SAFE…
From Safe Berks
Countywide
Safe2Say Something is a youth violence prevention program run by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General that takes anonymous tips about someone who may be a threat to themselves or others. The…
From Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
Countywide · Taking applications
The County of Berks runs the Behavioral HealthChoices program, which pays for mental health and substance use disorder treatment for people in Berks County who have Medical Assistance (Medicaid).…
From Berks County Mental Health / Developmental Disabilities Program
Countywide
The Berks County Student Assistance Program, known as SAP, is a team process in schools that identifies students struggling with things like substance use and mental health concerns and helps them…
From Council on Chemical Abuse
Reading
The Berks County Mental Health / Developmental Disabilities Program pays for a range of mental health treatment and support services for people in Berks County, from counseling to hospital care to…
From Berks County Mental Health / Developmental Disabilities Program
Reading
The Child and Adolescent Service System Program, known as CASSP, is run through the Berks County Mental Health / Developmental Disabilities Program and helps children, adolescents and their families…
From Berks County Mental Health / Developmental Disabilities Program
Pennsylvania Counseling Services offers Family Based Mental Health Services, intensive mental health treatment delivered in the home to children and adolescents up to age 21 and the families they…
From Pennsylvania Counseling Services
Countywide
Berks Counseling Center offers outpatient and intensive outpatient counseling, case management, psychiatric evaluation and medication support for mental health concerns at its office on Penn Street…
From Berks Counseling Center
By referral only
The Hamburg Area School District contracts with the Family Guidance Center (FGC) to provide school-based counseling services to individual students and their families. Through school-based…
From Hamburg Area School District
Shillington
Governor Mifflin School District's Student Services department keeps a list of crisis phone numbers and mental health resources that students and families can use when a young person is struggling or…
From Governor Mifflin School District
Reading
NAMI Berks County PA publishes an "If in Crisis" list of phone and text numbers for people facing a mental health crisis in Berks County, along with numbers for suicide prevention, alcohol and drug…
From NAMI Berks County PA
READING
The Salvation Army Reading Citadel runs an after-school program and a summer day camp for children at its Learning Center at 301 South 5th Street, Reading, Pennsylvania 19602. The after-school…
From The Salvation Army Reading Citadel
Reading
Child Care Works is Pennsylvania's subsidized child care program that helps low-income families pay their child care fees. It is funded by the state and federal governments and managed by the Early…
From Early Learning Resource Center Region 13
Countywide
Keystone STARS is Pennsylvania's quality rating and improvement system for child care and early learning programs, run by the state Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL). It gives…
From The Pennsylvania Key
Reading · Taking applications
Olivet Boys & Girls Club of Reading and Berks County signs children up for its after school program at six clubs in Reading, and enrollment for the 2026-2027 Afterschool Program is open. You enroll…
From Olivet Boys & Girls Club of Reading and Berks County