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“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Howard Zinn
Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines
Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines
Direct Services for Crime Victims: Retrieved from https://ovc.ojp.gov
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or Text*: 988
Chat: https://988lifeline.org/chat
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
Call or Text*: 800-4-A-CHILD (800-422-4453)
Chat: https://childhelphotline.org
Courage First Athlete Helpline
Call or Text*: 888-279-1026
Chat: www.athletehelpline.org
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Intimate Image Abuse Helpline
Call: 844-878-2274
Defined Monetary Assistance Victims Reserve, U.S. Department of Justice
(restitution for victims of child pornography)
Call: 844-487-2282
Email: DMAVictimsReserve@usdoj.gov
Disaster Distress Helpline
Call or Text*: 800-985-5990
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Survivor Support Line
Call: 877-751-0880
love is respect (dating abuse)
Call: 866-331-9474
Text*: LOVEIS to 22522
Chat: https://loveisrespect.org
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Call: 877-MADD-HELP (877-623-3435)
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Call: 800-799-7233
Text*: START to 88788
TTY: 800-787-3224
Chat: https://thehotline.org
National Elder Fraud Hotline
Call: 833-FRAUD-11 (833-372-8311)
National Human Trafficking Hotline
Call: 888-373-7888
Text*: 233733
Chat: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/chat
National Organization of Parents Of Murdered Children
Call: 888-818-POMC (888-818-7662)
National Runaway Safeline
Call: 800-RUNAWAY (800-786-2929)
Chat: www.1800runaway.org
National Sexual Assault Hotline
Call: 800-656-HOPE (800-656-4673)
Chat: https://hotline.rainn.org/online
Español: https://hotline.rainn.org/es
Safe Helpline (sexual assault support for the DoD community)
Call: 877-995-5247
Chat: www.safehelpline.org
StrongHearts Native Helpline (domestic, dating, and sexual violence support for Native Americans)
Call or Text*: 844-7NATIVE (844-762-8483)
Chat: https://strongheartshelpline.org
* Message and data rates may apply for text hotlines.
Information and Referrals for Crime Victims
Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Country Child Abuse Hotline
Call: 800-633-5155
Better Business Bureau: Scam Tracker
https://bbb.org/scamtracker
IdentityTheft.gov
English: https://identitytheft.gov
Español: https://robodeidentidad.gov
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Call: 800-843-5678
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
Call: 877-536-2722
National Crime Victim Bar Association: Finding an Attorney
https://victimbar.org/finding-an-attorney
Victim Resources Database (National Crime Victim Law Institute)
https://ncvli.org/victim-resources-database
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
Call: 800-537-2238
Office for Victims of Crime Directory of Crime Victim Services
https://ovc.ojp.gov/directory-crime-victim-services/search
Office for Victims of Crime Response Center
Call: 800-851-3420
TTY: 301-240-6310
ReportFraud.ftc.gov
English: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov
Español: https://reportefraude.ftc.gov
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration National Helpline
Call: 877-662-HELP (800-622-4357)
TTY: 800-487-4889
Tribal Resource Tool: Resources for Survivors of Crime and Abuse
www.tribalresourcetool.org
U.S. Department of Justice Elder Abuse Initiative
English: www.justice.gov/elderjustice/find-support-elder-abuse
Español: www.justice.gov/elderjustice-espanol
VictimConnect (live anonymous referrals and support for victims of crime)
Call or Text*: 855-4-VICTIM (855-484-2846)
Chat: https://victimconnect.org/get-help/victimconnect-chat
Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Line (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Call: 855-48-VOICE (855-488-6423)
WomensLaw.org Email Hotline
English: https://hotline.womenslaw.org
Español: https://hotline.womenslaw.org/es
* Message and data rates may apply for text hotlines.
Safety Beware
Scammers ask to send money - never send money
Scammers ask for personal information - never send personal information
Scammers ask you to pay to apply for a scholarship - beware
Always report fraud
Funding Grassroots Effort
Savings
Set aside funds with each paycheck
Network
Ask for support from friends, family, friends of friends, neighborhood members and community
Ask local schools
Ask national and local organization and service clubs such as scouts, 4-H, Fraternities, Sororities, Lions Club, Knights of Columbus, Easter Seals, United Way, Eagles Club, March of Dimes, women’s groups, and American Legion for support to host a fundraiser
Ask non-profit organizations
Ask faith-based organizations, churches, missionary, Kiwanis
Ask disability-focused organizations that operate nationwide or state or local chapters
Ask newspaper or radio stations for support
Ask businesses for support using therapeutic, medically necessary language, may discuss employee matching funds
Ask food pantries, humane societies, animal shelters, pet pantries for support
Ask a homeless shelter to offer funding or support or what resources do they have
Ask to host Pampered Chef, Longaberger, Scentsy, Cookie Lee Jewelry party
Ask to advocate at a fair, convention, or conference
Ask to participate in a race or 5-K
Ask for help on pay it forward sites, marketplaces, eBay, freecylce.org and have proceeds go to funding your cause
Ask to have a garage or yard sale,
Ask to sell candy bars, pasta, magazines, yard flamingos, threads of hope
Ask as part of a letter campaign
Ask about Christmas program (angel tree, shop with a cop, toys for tots)
Ask how to find membership programs where members nominate individuals and agencies for support
Give-back Campaigns
We-care.com
Kroger Fundraiser
Smile.amazon.com - donating .5% of eligible purchases back to organization
Shop or buy on Charity Day
Crowdfunding Campaigns or Social Media Challenges
Funditfwd.org
Fundraz4.com
helphopelive.org
indiegogo.com
lotshelpinghands.com
Makeitfit.org
Rockethub.com
Gofundme.com
Youcaring.com
GiveForward.com
Flipcause.com
justgiving.com
kindful.com
Search Other Non-Profits
Roundup app
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com
Great Nonprofits - some are outdated
Corporate partner sponsors
Abetterplace.org
Apply for Local, State, and Federal Programs
Private Insurance for coverage and assistance, see carriers policy terms, providing medically necessary treatment prescribed by a physician while coverage often varies by carrier and policy terms.
Research Medicare services - a national social insurance program administered by the U.S. federal government for adults over 65 years of age and younger people with disabilities
Apply for Medicaid - Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) finances appropriate and necessary pediatric services
Apply for Medicaid Waivers - additional services such as specialized equipment, supplies
Apply for SSI/Social Security
workplace / School accommodations
Advocate in an IEP
Worker’s Compensation program
Look into Supportive Agencies that Offer Support
Page Cues
$ = momentary help
* = handouts
! = exciting information
# = social media outreach
Standout Organizations
Help with Paying Bills Organization
Website: https://helpwithpayingbills.org
Description: Guidance to low income earners on paying bills
$ Pan Foundation
Website: https://www.panfoundation.org
Find a disease fund, if Medicaid eligible, under a specific income threshold
$* Oracle Health Foundation (formally) Cerner Charitable Foundation
Website(s): https://www.oraclehealthfoundation.org
Description: Formally First Hand Foundation, provides pediatric grants for clinical, equipment, displacement and vehicle modification to people in need of care which isn’t covered by insurance, request care kits
$* Variety - Children’s Charity Care Program
Website: usvariety.org
Description: Provides critical life-saving medical equipment and services, healthcare, and well-being to children and children’s health organizations including grants for medical equipment such as auditory items, dental care like orthodontics and braces, food feeding programs, oxygen, suction and insulin pumps, nebulizer, medicine, sensory equipment prosthetic, respite care, electrical stimulation devices, seizure alarms, humidicribs and many more. The Freedom program provides grants for manual and powered wheelchairs, adaptive bicycles and trikes, assistance animals, hoists and lifts, modified vehicle access, standing and walking assistance like gait trainers, walkers, standing rams and positioning systems, and specialized car seating such as shower and toilet chairs, request grants specifying name, age, diagnosis, city/State, and equipment, product or service needed including annual household income
$ Friends of Man
Website: https://www.friendsofman.org
Description: In Colorado or nationally - Nationally offers grants for adaptive / mobility equipment, assistive technology (medically prescribed), bioness and walk-aid devices, compression garments, hearing aids, home modifications, lift chairs, medical equipment, mobility equipment, orthopedic braces and shoes, prostheses, stair lifts, vehicle adaptations with hand controls, wheelchair ramps. In Colorado offers general assistance over and under $500, single parents empowered, transplant/medication
GoHawkeye.org
Description: Grants for financial aid, outdoor experiences and filmmaking meant to inspire people of all abilities.
Giving Angels Foundation
Website: https://givingangelsfoundation.org
Description: Check back for funding, has assisted special needs children from lower-income families with a physical disability aged 21 years or younger throughout the United States
$ Emily Ann Griffin Foundation
Website: http://www.eagf.org
Description: Touches the lives of families who are not able to afford the costly medical equipment often prescribed to support and enhance a child’s life. They explore funding to keep kids on the move, accessible, safe, communicating, supported, healthy, and happy.
Johnny’s Rainbow Foundation
Description: Helping kids with special needs - Apply for a $250 grant
Modest Needs
Website: https://www.modestneeds.org/
Description: small emergency grants to low income workers slipping into poverty, for furloughed and out of work heroes
Lester’s Feet Foundation
Description: You must have a child or dependent that has a condition that prohibits you from working or creates a temporary loss of income
Odd Shoe Exchange Program
Website: http://oddshoe.org
Description: A resource for new, quality single shoes and pairs of significantly different sized shoes helping those with injury, disease or genetic disorders.
Paige’s Princes Foundation
Website: unknown
Description: Provides small grants to pediatric patients with life-long disabilities. They are not condition-specific and consider applications from any disorder or diagnosis that results in the disability of a child.
Estusu Rent Relief Fund
Website:
Description: interest-free loans to individuals impacted by loss due to Covid-19
$Small Steps in Speech
Website: https://www.smallstepsinspeech.org/
Description: helping children with speech and/or language disorders take the steps needed to be better communicators. Non-profit organization which provides grants on behalf of children with speech and language disorders for therapies, treatments, communicative devices and other services not covered by insurance or Medicaid aimed at improving their communication skills plan.
National Restaurant Association Education Foundation
Description: Scholarships to advance careers and dreams in restaurant and hospitality industry
North Star Foundation
Website: https://northstarf.org
Description: Dedicated to helping people affected by disasters, economical instability, joblessness, disability, medical need, and orphan through medical aid to hospitals, food, and clothing for the needy, special educational programs, reconstruction of buildings, basic computer needs,
The Orange Effect Foundation
Website: https://theorangeeffect.org
Description: Ensuring children with speech disorders receive the speech therapy and technology they need.
$ iTAALK
Website: https://www.itaalk.org/grant-and-funding-source-list
Description: Children with autism, a voice-assisted technology with a database with over 700 resources
St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund (SCF)
Website:
Description: Emergency funds for over-the-load (500+ miles/day) semi-truck drivers out of work due to medical problems
$ Special Kids Therapy
Website: HTTPS://SPECIALKIDS.US
Description: Raises money for children with developmental, physical and/or emotional difficulties for therapies and services not covered by private or public insurance in Grosse Point Michigan
A Wish Come True:
Website: https://www.awish.org
Description: Grants children suffering from a life-threatening illness a magical wish in Rhode Island and Massachusetts
Global Giving
Website: https://www.globalgiving.org
Description: Connects nonprofits with donors and companies
$ Together Rising
Website: https://togetherrising.org
Description: Transforms collective heartbreak into effective action. Individuals, families, or organizations can request support. They receive funding through flash fundraisers.
Interventionists as Collaborators
Striving to understand credentials, scope of practice & specialties
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Specialists
Description: ABA consultants use science and the principles of behavior to produce socially significant behavior in applied, everyday settings changing the trajectory and enhancing an individual’s quality of life. This could be done by rearranging the environment, changing motivation, or through prompting, fading and shaping. ABA isn’t just an early intervention program. Principles and technologies can be used across populations and severity levels, in both comprehensive and focused programs. May specialize in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) helping individuals develop skills, reduce restrictive behaviors and achieve goals, but ABA can also occur across other disciplines such as nutrition, sports management etc.
board certified behavior analysts
autism specialists
positive behavior support facilitators
behavior analysts
organizational behavior management
Advocate
Description: Advocates for individuals, parents, families, friends and agencies by providing general, financial, system, educational, legal, medical, disability, victim advice and support.
Self-Advocate: Individual
Individual Advocate: parents, families, friends
Formal Advocate: agencies
Audiologist
Description: Assesses and manages disorders of hearing, balance, and neural systems specializing in hearing loss.
audiologists
Case Manager
Description: handles case assignments, writes person support plans, review progress, identify resources, achieve wellness and autonomy
targeted case manager
Play Therapist
Description: Certification for mastered level counselor, marriage and family therapist, psychologist, social worker, and psychiatrist. Play therapists complete 150 hours of documented instruction and 350 direct client contract hours in play therapy, supporting children with trauma and counseling through play, creative activities and storytelling.
licensed registered play therapist,
supervisors or school based- registered play therapist
Medical Team
Family Doctor
Description: A doctor who provides general medical treatment for people in a particular area
family medicine doctor
primary care team
pediatrician
nurse practitioner
Diagnosticians
Description: Creates a complete and accurate medication list, by integrating counseling and wellness, to address significant medical needs
psychiatrist
licensed medical doctor
pharmacists
psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
psychiatric nurse
Speech Pathologist
Description: Skilled in assessing communication, sciences and disorders, working with children and adults on speech, language, cognitive or social-communication problems, specializing in articulation disorders, dysphagia, language disorders, fluency disorders, voice etc.
speech language pathologist (SLP-CCC)
Occupational Therapist
Description: Helps people with health issues that affect everyday activities and life skills.
occupational therapist
licensed, certified stroke rehab specialist,
certified brain injury specialist
Marriage and Family Therapist
Description: Focus on mental health of individuals, couples and families
licensed marriage and family therapist
Pastoral Counselors
Combines counseling with christian beliefs assists with grief, stress, life transitions, improve communication, resolve conflict, and build on goals, develop a deeper understanding of faith, guides those struggling with purpose and meaning
certified pastoral counselor
priest
Physical Therapists
Description: treats body disorder, helps to manage illnesses and injuries of the musculoskeletal system and neurological system
PT
Probation Officers
Description: Investigate and supervise offenders who the course have released to the community on probation, parole or supervised release
probation officer
Psychologist
Description: Uses advanced degree and professional training to conduct psychological assessments to diagnose, evaluate, and treat mental health conditions as well as provide psychotherapy (talk therapy) to help people cope with relationships, life, and mental health conditions
psychologist
counseling psychologist
Social Worker
Description: Addresses societal problems by working with families facing poverty, addiction, racism, LGBTQIA2S+, homelessness, trauma, protects children who are at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation, supports families by assisting with benefits, provides counseling copes with mental health and emotions, connects resources, develops case plans, coordinates services, intervenes to prevent children from harm, develop or implement policy and advocate for vulnerable populations
school social worker
healthcare social worker
licensed clinical social worker
child Welfare Social worker
Teacher
Description: A person who teaches at a school, and often collaborates with other specialists.
teacher (elementary, middle school, high school)
ESL teacher
reading specialist
special education teacher
Grant Opportunities
Administration for Community Living (support families at risk of institutionalization)
California Endowment (health of Californians)
Footlocker Foundation (diversity and empowerment)
Genentech/Roche (medicine and education)
LSP Foundation (social entrepreneurship)
!Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) –
Website: https://www.ed.gov/about/ed-offices/osers/osers-grants-and-funding
Description: OSERS supports programs that help educate children and youth with disabilities, provides for the rehabilitation of youth and adults with disabilities, and supports research to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Visa Everywhere Initiative Grant
Worthy but Likely Unattainable
Red Tab Foundation: The Red Tab Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that assists Levi Strauss & Co. employees, retirees, and their families who face problems caused by unexpected financial hardship
Gruber Family Foundation: no unsolicited requests - supports education, women and reproductive rights, news and investigative media, social safety nets, arts, and film and environmental causes.
Hilton Foundation: no unsolicited requests - individuals living in poverty and experiencing disadvantage throughout the world, good neighbor grants
Pincus Family Foundation: supports organizations and programs promoting children’s health, education, safety, nutrition, recreation, and the arts locally and worldwide.