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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Reading
Safe Berks runs an emergency shelter, called the Safe House, for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault and their children, and staff also help survivors find longer term housing. The…
From Safe Berks
Reading
Opportunity House runs a year-round emergency shelter at 430 North Second Street in Reading for men, women, children, and veterans who are experiencing homelessness. The Reading shelter is open 24…
From Opportunity House
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
Family Promise of Berks County runs the Hospitality Network, a 90-day shelter program that gives families with children who are experiencing homelessness a safe place to stay, meals, and case…
From Family Promise of Berks County
Healthy Sprouts is a program of Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank that gives a bag of fresh foods to children in need in the City of Reading. It was first piloted in March 2010 under the name Produce 4…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Helping Harvest runs a School Pantry Program that places food pantries inside schools, so students who do not have enough to eat can choose food for themselves and their families. The program is…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Seasonal
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres takes part in the Summer Food Service Program, a federally funded program that provides free, nutritious meals to children and teens during the summer months when school…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
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
Seasonal
Reading School District serves breakfast and lunch to children during the summer at school cafeterias around the city. Meals are served from June 15 to July 31, Mondays through Thursdays. Breakfast…
From Reading School District
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
Wyomissing
Wyomissing Area School District takes applications from families for free or reduced price school meals, and families must file a new application every year even if a child was approved before. What…
From Wyomissing Area School District
Schuylkill Valley School District runs a Free and Reduced Price Meals Program that lowers or removes the cost of meals at school for students whose families qualify. The page gives few details: it…
From Schuylkill Valley School District
Kutztown · Taking applications
Kutztown Area School District lets families apply for free or reduced price school breakfast and lunch for their children through a SchoolCafe account. The district takes part in the School Breakfast…
From Kutztown Area School District
Wilson School District serves school breakfast and lunch to all of its students, and families can apply to see whether their children qualify for meals at free or reduced price. The application is…
From Wilson School District
Fleetwood · Taking applications
The Fleetwood Area School District Food Service Department serves breakfast and lunch every day in each of its four schools, and breakfast is free for every student. Pennsylvania will continue…
From Fleetwood Area School District
Breakfast: FREE For All Students.
Brandywine Heights Area School District serves breakfast and lunch to its students in every school cafeteria, with breakfast free for all students and lunch sold at a set price. Breakfast and lunch…
From Brandywine Heights Area School District
Muhlenberg School District serves breakfast and lunch free to every student at all of its schools, with no application to fill out. All school meals will be served free for all children for the…
From Muhlenberg School District
Taking applications
Antietam School District gives every one of its students one breakfast and one lunch at no cost each school day in the 2026-2027 school year. All Antietam School District students qualify. There is…
From Antietam School District
Every student in the Reading School District can get a free breakfast and a free lunch each day through the district's Food Service Program, under the Community Eligibility Provision of the Healthy…
From Reading School District
Birdsboro
The Daniel Boone Area School District Food Services department serves breakfast and lunch to students in its school cafeterias, and breakfast is free at both the full price and the reduced price.…
From Daniel Boone Area School District
Tulpehocken Area School District serves breakfast free of charge at all of its schools and lets families apply for free or reduced price lunch for their children. For the 2026-2027 school year…
From Tulpehocken Area School District
Reading
Exeter Township School District's Food Services department signs up children from low-income families for free or reduced-price school meals through a federal program. Each year the Food Services…
From Exeter Township School District
Governor Mifflin School District gives every student a free breakfast and a free lunch each school day for the 2026-2027 school year, and no application is needed. This applies to all students in the…
From Governor Mifflin School District
The Hamburg Area School District Food Service Department serves breakfast and lunch in every district building, and breakfast is free for students at both the elementary and secondary levels. Lunch…
From Hamburg Area School District
Boyertown Area School District serves breakfast and lunch in its schools and posts the prices and menus for each grade level. For the 2026-2027 school year, breakfast costs $0.00 for all students…
From Boyertown Area School District
The Twin Valley School District Food Services Department runs the meal program in the district's schools and posts information for families about free and reduced price meals, school menus and summer…
From Twin Valley School District
Reading
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres serves free afterschool snacks and suppers to children and teens at 12 approved sites in Reading. The At-Risk Afterschool Snack and Supper Program is federally funded…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
Countywide
Helping Harvest runs the Weekender Program, which sends a bag of healthy, non-perishable food home on Fridays with students who are food insecure, so they have something to eat over the weekend. The…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Countywide · Seasonal
The Weekender Bag Program, run through the Conrad Weiser Food Pantry hosted at Trinity Lutheran Church in Robesonia, provides kid-friendly, nutritious, nonperishable food for Conrad Weiser students…
From Conrad Weiser Food Pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church
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
Aldea - The People's Justice Center runs a project called CARES, short for Children's Advocacy, Representation & Services. Its attorneys represent unaccompanied minors in immigration and family…
From ALDEA - The People's Justice Center
Reading
The Main Library of the Reading Public Library is a passport acceptance facility, which means you can fill out a U.S. passport application and hand it in there in person. Passport service is by…
From Reading Public Library
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
Hope Rescue Mission keeps clothing closets stocked for people staying at The Mission and at the LightHouse Women & Children's Center in Reading. The clothing comes in through HopeThrift, the…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Reading School District keeps a Knights' Closet in each of its school buildings for students in need, particularly those who are homeless or at risk. The closets hold basic items such as food…
From Reading School District
Seasonal
The Salvation Army Reading Citadel runs Angel Tree, a holiday program that provides warm winter clothing, toys, and other needed items to children up to 12 years of age. The Reading Citadel also…
From The Salvation Army Reading Citadel
Seasonal
Friend, Inc. Community Services provides Christmas gifts for children of its clients through a program called Christmas Cheer, also known as Sponsor a Child. Friend, Inc. serves families in rural…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Seasonal
Friend, Inc. Community Services in Kutztown gives a turkey and a holiday dinner box to each family enrolled in its Food Pantry during November and December, so those families have a full Thanksgiving…
From Friend, Inc. Community 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
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…
From CONCERN Professional Services for Children
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
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
The Children's Alliance Center of Berks County, known as the CAC, is a service of the Berks County District Attorney's office that works with child victims of sexual abuse. It brings law enforcement…
From Children's Alliance Center of Berks County
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
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…
From Tulpehocken Area School District
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…
From Antietam School District