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ALCOHOLICS ANONOYMOUS

Find a Site near You in the U.S.  enter your Zip code, or city-state

American pregnancy helpline 1 800 672 2296

·          I just wanna know! My options free & confidential

·          This site is primarily geared towards teenagers and young adults

American Red Cross

•          Find a Site near You in the U.S. click on map or enter your Zip code

•          Provides immediate relief – immediately following a disaster, the Red Cross works with emergency

·          services agencies and others and provides emergency shelters, meals, and first aid

Babies First - Nurse-Family Partnership   Helping First-Time Parents Succeed

•          Find a Site near You in the U.S.  find your State on the map and click on it

•          Helping new mothers develop skills to take better care of themselves and their babies

Big brothers big sisters   

•           Find a Site near You in the U.S.  enter your Zip code

•          Together, we are changing what it means to grow up in America

Boy Scouts of America

•          Find a Site near You in the U.S.  enter your Zip code

•          BSA- builds character, trains them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship,

•           and develops personal fitness.

Boys & girls clubs

•          Find a Site near You US Clubs only    enter your Zip code

•          Boys & Girls Clubs make a difference in the community by giving young people

•           a safe place to learn and grow

Catholic Charities

•          Find a Site near You in the U.S.   select your state

·          To enhance the work of local agencies in their efforts to reduce poverty, support families

Child abuse hotline 1 800 422 4453

• Need help have questions about child abuse or want to know where to go for information
• on reporting child abuse or want a referral to an agency near you

Child Care Referrals U.S.  enter your Zip code

Deaf or hard of hearing

•          Find a site in Ca.  Southern CA – Northern CA

·           Agency that serves individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind

Disabled - independent living center

•          Find a site near you in the U.S.  Click on state

·          Centers where people with disabilities can receive assistance with a variety of daily living issues

·           and learn the skills they need to take control of their lives  

Domestic Violence National Hotline   1 800 787 3224   

·          Find a site near you scroll to bottom of page  click on county in California

·          Find s site near you in the U.S. click on first letter A for Alabama C for California then click on resources

Drugs  Substance Abuse Treatment - U.S.

·          Find a site near you    find your State on the map and click on it

 Drugs - Faces of Meth   http://www.facesofmeth.us/main.htm

·           I hope that in seeing this you will make choices to not use methamphetamine

Food banks in the U.S.

·          Find a site near you    top of page click on find a food bank

Foster parents needed California 1 800 kids 4 us (1 800 543 7487)

·           Find a site near you in California      by Zip – Area Code – City or County

·            Yes! Prospective foster parents can specify the age and gender of children they’d like to care for

Griefshare   You don’t have to go through the grieving process along

·          Find a site near you   search by Zip code/Postal code, City, state, area code

Jobs - jobscorps - click on state

·          Find a site near you    call (800) 733-JOBS or (800) 733- 5627

·          Job Corps is a free education and training program that helps young people learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a good job. For eligible youth at least 16 years of age

Jobs - workforce connection

·          Find a site near you   Fresno County  Scroll to bottom of page

·          Our progressive One-Stop Centers connect job seekers to valuable services that include: use of resource room equipment, job search skills workshops, information on training and education, referrals to partnering agencies and community resources

PAL police activities league -

·          Find a site near you in - California

·          Pal provides programs ages ranging from five to eighteen in a safe, supervised environment

Pornography

Victims of pornography

Dr. Patrick Carnes

New creation ministries ncmfresno.org Fresno

Sexual Addiction Test

Ø  Were you sexually abused as a child or adolescent?

Ø  Have sexual thoughts interfered with your ability to function at work or at school?

Ø  Have you failed to meet commitments? or fulfill responsibilities because of your involvement with pornography?

Ø  Have you had sex regardless of the consequences, the threat of being caught, the risk of contracting herpes, gonorrhea, AIDS, etc.?

Ø  Have you had sex at inappropriate times, in inappropriate places, and/or with inappropriate people?

Ø  Have you had an important relationship end because of your inability to stop looking at pornography and/or outside sexual activity?

Ø  Have you increased the risk you take online (giving out your name and phone number, meeting people offline, etc.)?

Ø  Confused about your sexual identity?

Ø  The spouse or parent of someone who is struggling with these issues?

Ø  A Christian leader searching for resources?

Recommend Reading

v  Out of the Shadows by Patrick Carnes

v  Breaking Free by - Russell Willingham

v  Relational Masks - by Russell Willingham

v  Stepping out of denial in to God’s Grace – John Baker

Making decisions about sex can be difficult,

but dealing with everything that comes with it can be downright frightening.

Ø  Secrecy is one of the strongest bonds of sexual addiction. Break the secrecy and you help break the addiction.

Pregnancy unplanned   1 800 395 4357   All Calls are confidential

Find a site near you   enter city or, state, Zip code, county

Pregnancy Connection    lost of information

Rape crisis centers   1 800 656 4673          

·          Find a site near you    pick a State or Zip Code

Runaway  1 800 786 2929    http://www.1800runaway.org/

·          The National Runaway Switchboard relays messages from runaways to families.

·           Free bus ride home to qualified runaways

Senior citizens  1 800 677 1116  

·          Find a site near you  Programs that help maintain independence

Suicide hotlines   1 800 784 2433

·         Find a HOTLINE IN YOUR STATE   search by state,

YMCA - 1 800 872 9622 

Ø  Find a site near you   enter Zip code

Ø  We build strong kids, strong families, strong communities

Ø  We serving more than 20.5 million people each year in the U.S.

Links to Basic front-line, nonprofit organizations

In Alphabetical Order

2-1-1 is a free, non-emergency, confidential, 3-digit phone number and service

that provides easy access to housing information, and critical health and human services.

2-1-1 operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with multi-lingual capabilities.

Counties with 211 Service

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