129 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
Mary's Shelter runs the YESS Residential Program, a short-term emergency shelter in Reading for young people who have nowhere to stay, open to youths ages 14 to 17 of any gender for up to 21 days.…
From Mary's Shelter
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
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
Reading
Exeter Township School District's Food Services department signs children up for free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches through the federal school meal programs. The Food Services team serves…
From Exeter Township School District
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 participates in the School…
From Kutztown 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
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 a well balanced breakfast and lunch every school day in each of its four schools, and breakfast is free for every student.…
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
Reading · 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, and there…
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
The Daniel Boone Area School District Food Services department serves breakfast and lunch to students in the district's school cafeterias. Breakfast is free for every student, at both the full 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
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 Food and Nutrition Services department of the Conrad Weiser Area School District serves breakfast and lunch in the district's schools and posts menus, pre-payment options and nutrition…
From Conrad Weiser Area School District
The Twin Valley School District Food Services Department runs the school meal program for district students and posts information for families about free and reduced price meals, lunch menus and…
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
Reading
The Berks County Public Defender's Office provides lawyers to people charged with crimes who cannot afford to hire an attorney, including juveniles charged with delinquency. Its attorneys handle…
From Berks County Public Defender
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 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
VOiCEup Berks runs "Girls Supporting Girls. Period.", a Youth Volunteer Corps project started in 2018 by a youth leadership group in Reading that works to make period products affordable, safe and…
From VOiCEup Berks
Reading · By referral only
The Berks County Intermediate Unit runs ELECT, a free program for pregnant and parenting young people in Berks County schools who are working toward a high school diploma or its equivalent. ELECT is…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
Reading
Berks County Children and Youth Services provides adoption services to children in the agency's custody, and points families who want to adopt toward the outside agencies that prepare them. 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 · Taking applications
CHOR Youth & Family Services places children who cannot stay safely at home with foster families in Berks County and surrounding areas, and it trains and supports the adults who open their homes.…
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
Wyomissing
CASA of Berks County trains screened community volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children across Berks County, including Reading and surrounding communities. The organization's separate…
From CASA of Berks County
Countywide
CASA of Berks County trains screened community volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children across Berks County, including Reading and surrounding communities. The volunteers are court…
From CASA of Berks County
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
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
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
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
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
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