Find help
Start with the closest pressure: food, housing, benefits, technology, or crisis support. Each guide gives you the first questions to ask and the matching resource listings.
Food and WIC Help
Use this page when the immediate need is food, WIC, pantry hours, or a food program that may depend on county, household size, documents, or appointment rules.
Open guideHousing and Utility Help
Start here for rent pressure, shelter, eviction papers, shutoff notices, utility bills, or a deadline that could change where someone sleeps or whether service stays on.
Open guideBenefits Help
Use this page for SNAP, Medicaid, disability, unemployment, case notices, portal problems, document uploads, or a benefits deadline that is hard to sort alone.
Open guideTechnology and Forms Help
Start here when a phone, account, document, upload, email, printer, benefits portal, online form, or small business tool is blocking the next step.
Open guideCrisis and Safety Help
Use this page when safety, emotional crisis, violence, abuse, or an urgent local follow-up is part of the situation. If someone is in immediate danger, start with 911.
Open guideIf someone is in danger
Call 911 first. For emotional crisis support in the United States, call or text 988. Use this site for the next local step after immediate safety is handled.
If the category is not obvious
Use the Resources page, call 211, or send OpenACAI a short note with the county, what changed, and the safest way to reply.
If a listing is wrong
Send the organization name, what changed, and the source or person who confirmed it. Corrections are part of keeping the guide useful.