Community Outreach Resources and Education

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We share this Community Outreach Resources and Education (C.O.R.E) infor­ma­tion because we don’t believe one should have to go to a church to get help when one is strug­gling. *Note* Not of all of these links have been vet­ted beyond that the ser­vices are either inde­pen­dent of any sec­tar­i­an church or are gov­ern­ment pro­vid­ed. Services can and do vary by agency.

Alcohol and Addiction Recovery

SMART Recovery — sci­ence based tools to help with alco­hol and drug addic­tion

Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS)- a net­work of autonomous, non-professional local groups, ded­i­cat­ed sole­ly to help­ing indi­vid­u­als achieve and main­tain sobriety/abstinence from alco­hol and drug addic­tion, food addic­tion and more.

Secular Alcoholics Anonymous — infor­ma­tion and meet­ing list­ings for non-theistic veri­son of AA.

AA Beyond Belief — reg­u­lar meet­ing in Toledo based on the Alcoholics Anonymous mod­el with­out the reli­gious part.

LGBTQA+

EqualityToledo — works to elim­i­nate dis­crim­i­na­tion in our region based on sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion, gen­der iden­ti­ty, and gen­der expres­sion through edu­ca­tion, activism, and oth­er anti-defamation efforts. Also has a com­mu­ni­ty food pantry.

TransOhio serves the Ohio trans­gen­der and ally com­mu­ni­ties by pro­vid­ing ser­vices, edu­ca­tion, sup­port, and advo­ca­cy, which pro­motes and improves the health, safe­ty and life expe­ri­ence of the Ohio trans­gen­der indi­vid­ual and com­mu­ni­ty.

Health and Human Services

YWCA of Toledo Domestic Violence Shelter
Crisis Line (419) 241‑7386 or (888) 341‑7386

The Cocoon Shelter — Located in Bowling Green. Exists to pro­vide safe­ty, heal­ing, and jus­tice across the lifes­pan for sur­vivors of domes­tic and sex­u­al vio­lence, their chil­dren, and all of those affect­ed by abuse. 24/7 Help Line 419–373-1730

Safety Net  — the only 24-hour emer­gency shel­ter for Runaway Homeless Youth (RHY) in Northwest Ohio  who are between the ages of 12 to 17. Youth and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers can call or text Safety Net 24 hours a day at: 419–206-0926

Neighborhood Health Association — puts health with­in reach of all com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, regard­less of the abil­i­ty to pay, through equal access to qual­i­ty med­ical care and edu­ca­tion­al and sup­port ser­vices essen­tial for well-being of body and mind.

Ohio Job and Family Services — One stop place to find gov­ern­ment pro­vid­ed social wel­fare ser­vices.

PathStone — not-for-profit com­mu­ni­ty devel­op­ment and human ser­vice orga­ni­za­tion serv­ing Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Virginia, and Vermont.

National Domestic Violence Hotline 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)

Mental Health

Secular Therapy Project — The pur­pose of the Secular Therapy Project is to help con­nect non-religious or sec­u­lar per­sons who need men­tal health ser­vices with out­stand­ing men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als, such as psy­chol­o­gists, psy­chi­a­trists, coun­selors, and oth­ers. Using our sys­tem is sim­ple and requires very lit­tle infor­ma­tion from you. Our goal is to pro­tect your con­fi­den­tial­i­ty until you find a ther­a­pist to cor­re­spond with or to work with.

Nami of Greater Toledo — Promote well­ness for indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­ly mem­bers in Greater Toledo who are liv­ing with men­tal health issues and ill­ness through edu­ca­tion, sup­port, and advo­ca­cy. For imme­di­ate crises call 419–255-9185. For infor­ma­tion about ser­vices avail­able in Lucas County call 419–255-3125

Zepf Center- Creating hope & recov­ery through inte­grat­ed person-centered ser­vices. 419–841-7701 Or 1–866-558‑3363

Ohio Guidestone — offers ser­vices for men­tal health, sub­stance use dis­or­der, fam­i­ly care, fos­ter care, juve­nile jus­tice, res­i­den­tial treat­ment, home-based coun­sel­ing, job train­ing and more. This provider is faith-based but the group has a strong diver­si­ty and inclu­sion state­ment and a per­son with the group told us that while they were found­ed by the Methodists they don’t require peo­ple to par­take in any reli­gious rit­u­als to obtain ser­vices. Use the web­site link or call 1–844-622‑5564

Food Pantries

The Brown Bag Food Project — a local non-profit that seeks to address issues of food inse­cu­ri­ty in Wood County, Ohio.

Sylvania Area Family Services - orga­nized to pro­vide sup­port ser­vices that strength­en fam­i­lies in the greater com­mu­ni­ty. Limited to cer­tain zip codes — check the web­site for details.

FOP Food Pantry — The food pantry oper­ates month­ly on the third Wednesday of each month. The gate opens at 11:00 a.m. and food dis­tri­b­u­tion starts at 1:00 p.m. and runs until 3:00 p.m. We also pro­vide emer­gency bas­kets as need­ed. Food bas­kets are dis­trib­uted on a first come, first served basis.

JERUSALEM TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY
9501 Jerusalem Rd. Curtice, OH 43412
Food Pantry Service Phone:(419) 836‑1210

PROMEDICA — HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER
5700 Monroe St. Ste. 307 Sylvania, OH 43560
(567) 585‑0095

Legal Aid

Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Inc. (LAWO) and Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) — non-profit region­al law firms that pro­vide high qual­i­ty legal assis­tance in civ­il mat­ters to help eli­gi­ble low-income indi­vid­u­als and groups in west­ern Ohio achieve self reliance, and equal jus­tice and eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ty.