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Basics A-Z

Below please find a listing of all agencies and organizations that offer community support (housing, clothing / thrift shops, food, etc.).

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914United

914UNITED Inc. – a Yonkers-based organization – emerged in 2020 to educate, mentor, and support underserved communities within the Lower Hudson Valley. We champion the philosophy that it t
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This agency is located in: Yonkers

A-Home (Northern Westchester)


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This agency is located in: Pleasantville | County-wide

ACCES-VR: Adult Career and Continuing Education Services-Vocational Rehabilitation

Adult Career and Continuing Education Services-Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR) offers access to a full range of employment and independent living services that may be needed by persons with disab
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This agency is located in: White Plains

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Bee-Line Bus and Transit Services

Bee-Line buses, para-transit and taxi services are available. Buses: The fare for one bus ride is $2.50. (Senior and disabled rider fare is $1.25.)The fare for the BxM4C/Rte 28, Westchester-Manhattan
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This agency is located in: Pelham Manor | Mount Kisco | Yorktown Heights | Pelham | Mount Vernon | Peekskill | Pleasantville | New Rochelle | Rye | Cold Spring | Bronx | Port Chester | Cortlandt | Croton | Putnam | Purchase | Harrison | Dobbs Ferry | Rye Brook | Lewisboro | Elmsford | Scarsdale | New Castle | Hartsdale | Sleepy Hollow | Bronxville | Hawthorne | Tarrytown | Hastings | Irvington | White Plains | Larchmont | Mamaroneck | Yonkers

Cabrini Immigrant Services (Dobbs Ferry)

Cabrini Immigrant Services offers immigrants a haven of support, empowerment and service in the heart of Dobbs Ferry. They provide their clients with the means to facilitate the challenges of life in
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CAREERS Support Solutions

Job preparation (resumes, interviews), job training, case management, community outreach and education.
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This agency is located in: Valhalla | Putnam | Carmel

Coming Home: A Restorative Communities Collaborative Program  

Recognizing that those in reentry have a wealth of life experience, talents and potential with which they can begin a new chapter in life, Coming Home seeks to nurture those skills in a supportive, le
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This agency is located in: Rye

Comite Latino – Peekskill

Under the umbrella of the Hudson River Health Center, this agency assists Spanish-speaking immigrants. ESL classes, Counseling/Workshops (citizenship, health, housing, immigration, workers’ rights e
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This agency is located in: Peekskill

Community Housing Innovations (CHI)

Lists available rental housing. Offers homebuyer education and services to prevent foreclosure.Works with DSS to offer emergency shelter. Community Housing Innovations, Inc. provides the housing and
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This agency is located in: County-wide | White Plains | North Castle

Community Resource Center (CRC – formerly the Hispanic Resource Center)

Advocacy (for example, landlord-tenant mediations, rent arrears), Legal (translations, notary services), Social Assistance (food and social services eligibility, referrals, counseling, assistance with
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This agency is located in: Mamaroneck | County-wide

Congregations Linked in Urban Strategy of Effect Renewal (CLUSTER)

CLUSTER provides services and programs that assist residents in Yonkers and Westchester and Rockland County to build a better future for themselves and their communities.  Programs include: Housing.
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This agency is located in: Yonkers

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CVR New York: Housing Choice Voucher Program

CVR New York manages the Federally funded Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program (aka Section 8).  Go to CVR to make your application.  You can check your status on wait lists by calling 914-873-1045.
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Delancy Street Foundation

Conisdered one of the country’s leading residential self-help organization for substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless, and others.
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This agency is located in: Brewster

Department of Social Services – Mount Vernon

From the website: “The Department of Social Services provides an array of services to Westchester residents in need of help, including the areas of child support, food, housing, medical services
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Department of Social Services – Peekskill

The Department of Social Services provides an array of services to Westchester residents in need of help, including the areas of child support, food, housing, medical services and home energy costs. I
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This agency is located in: Peekskill

Department of Social Services – Yonkers

From the county website: “The Department of Social Services provides an array of services to Westchester residents in need of help, including the areas of child support, food, housing, medical servi
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This agency is located in: Yonkers

Department of Social Services-White Plains Center

The Department of Social Services provides an array of services to Westchester residents in need of help, including the areas of child support, food, housing, medical services and home energy costs. I
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Dress for Success


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This agency is located in: Manhattan

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

EITC, the Earned Income Tax Credit, sometimes called EIC is a tax credit to help you keep more of what you earned. To qualify, you must meet certain requirements and file a tax return, even if you do
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This agency is located in: Out of area

El Centro Hispano de White Plains

Offers ESL, GED prep, and computer and technology classes. The mission of El Centro Hispano is to strengthen Hispanic families by providing them with information about housing, employment, translation
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Exodus Transitional Community, Inc.

Exodus is a grassroots organization “built on the notion that individuals released from prison cannot successfully re-enter mainstream society without resources to support their transition.̶
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This agency is located in: Poughkeepsie | Manhattan

Family Restoration Project | Upon This Rock Ministries

Provides individual and group counseling as well as mentorship.  Job readiness and job placement assistance.
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Family Services of Westchester (FSW)

FSW offers a broad spectrum of services addressing the social, emotional and environmental factors that can have a negative impact on family life and can diminish an individual’s ability to function
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon | Port Chester | Sleepy Hollow | White Plains | Yonkers | Hastings | Pelham

FAVOR – Veterans Discount Card Program

FAVOR – “Find and Assist Veterans of Record” – is a program where local businesses will offer discounts on their goods or services to men and women who have proudly served in t
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This agency is located in: County-wide

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Veterans Hospital-Homeless Veteran Care

They help Veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, depression, or transition from jail. Contact one of our care coordinators to get
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This agency is located in: Montrose

Furniture Sharehouse

Furniture Sharehouse provides free furniture to economically disadvantaged individuals and families living in Westchester County, giving them the basic household furnishings that enable them to rebuil
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This agency is located in: Larchmont

Get Right With Your Taxes & Acierte con sus Impuestos


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Grace Baptist Church – Station of Hope Prison Re-Entry Ministry

Station of Hope is the prison ministry of historic Grace Baptist Church of Mt Vernon; committed to positively changing the lives of our community. Station of Hope accomplishes its mission of bringing
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Greater Centennial AME Zion Church – Prison Ministry

Prison Ministry extends the message of hope and love to men and women who are incarcerated through preaching, scripture, prayer and visitation.
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Greyston Foundation

Provides pre-employment training, job training that leads to certifications and licenses, and employment opportunities. Programs include Ready/Set/Work, Greyston Rangers (employment in Yonkers beautif
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This agency is located in: Yonkers

Halfway Houses of Westchester

Therapeutic living atmosphere, counseling, AA meetings, educational and social recreational activities, 10 beds, men only. Referral to OPD tx.
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Home Energy Assistance Program

HEAP Regular Benefit The HEAP Regular Benefit Component assists low-income New Yorkers with the cost of heating their homes. The Regular Benefit Component is currently closed. HEAP Emergency Benefit T
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This agency is located in: White Plains

HOPE Community Services

Services include a soup kitchen, food pantry, counseling for the homeless in cooperation with the Oasis Shelter, and transitional housing for LGBT youth. A full list of these New Rochelle based servic
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This agency is located in: New Rochelle

Hope’s Door – Administrative Offices

Hope’s Door seeks to end domestic violence and to empower victims to achieve safety, independence, and healing from the trauma of abuse. 24-HOUR HOTLINE 888.438.8700 The Hope’s Door hotline is the
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Hour Children

Hour Children provides practical, comprehensive services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their families. Community-based programs include: transitional and permanent supportive hou
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Hudson Link

Hudson Link acts as the administrator of a variety of college programs in six different correctional facilities by partnering with nine higher education institutions. An academic coordinator is availa
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This agency is located in: Ossining

Hudson River Presbytery – Presbytery Prison Partnership

Advocacy on prison justice and criminal justice issues. Outreach to people in prison. Reentry programs for people returning from prisons.
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This agency is located in: Briarcliff Manor

Human Development Services of Westchester

Provides several housing programs focused on people recovering from major mental illness: Congregate Care. Supervised residences in two locations offer housing for men and women (18 years of age and a
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This agency is located in: Port Chester | County-wide

Human Development Services of Westchester / The Living Room

The Living Room is a program of Human Development Services of Westchester.  It is a walk-in center in Mamaroneck that is a non-hospital setting designed to provide a comfortable, calm and relaxed env
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This agency is located in: Mamaroneck

Interfaith Council for Action, Inc (IFCA)

IFCA Housing Network is a not for profit 501 (c) (3) agency in Ossining, New York. We are a Neighborhood Preservation Company and a Community Housing Development Organization. We rent affordable
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This agency is located in: Tarrytown | Ossining

Jan Peek House

This co-ed drop-in shelter for adults only, is run by Caring for the Homeless of Peekskill (CHOP). Open all year. Accessible by Bee-Line bus route # 14,15,16,17
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This agency is located in: Peekskill

Life Line Program

Since 1985, the Lifeline program has provided a discount on phone service for qualifying low-income consumers to ensure that all Americans have the opportunities and security that phone service brings
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This agency is located in: County-wide

Life Progressive Services Group Inc.

Life Progressive Services Group  helps formerly incarcerated individuals transition back into the community through advocacy, education and resource provisions. They aim to enhance the lives of these
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Lifting Up Westchester

Provides food, shelters (for men and for women), housing services (including for the mentally ill and disabled), youth services, and services for the elderly. Shelters include: Open Arms Men’s S
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This agency is located in: White Plains

Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)

Subway, bus and commuter train services connect the five boroughs of New York City to Westchester County. Fares for the Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven Lines vary by distance and time (peak or off-peak)
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This agency is located in: County-wide

MHEP-RISE Center (Mental Health Empowerment Project)

Peer support line 24/7 (1-800-643-7462) Peer support to formerly incarcerated people in their return to the community; advocacy and resource support; mutuality and trauma informed. Weekly group meetin
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon United Tenants

MVUT is a member of Tenants and Neighbors, a statewide grassroots organization that harnesses tenant power to preserve at-risk affordable housing and strengthen tenants’ rights in New York.
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This agency is located in: Mount Vernon

My Benefits Checkup

My Benefits Checkup This website is a prescreening tool for people who live in New York State to find out if they might be able to receive: Help with buying food Temporary Assistance (TA) Special tax
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