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Bolivar County Community Action Agency, Inc.
BCCAA provides a variety of services ranging from preschool childcare to a senior companion program; from a transitional and homeless shelter to a Homeless Prevention Rapid Re-housing Program; from an adolescent opportunity program to a general education diploma program; from utility/rental assistance to education assistance.
Address: 810 E Sunflower Rd #120, Cleveland, MS 38732
Care Center
Care Center offers pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, counseling, birthing and parenting classes, infant supplies, counseling, adoption support, job assistance/training, and referrals for healthcare/financial assistance/legal aid/adoption/community support.
Address: 1277 Main Street, Southaven MS 38671
Care Lodge
Care Lodge has provided essential services and emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence in east central Mississippi.
Catholic Charities of Jackson
Catholic Charities of Jackson provides victim services including emergency shelter services, counseling, court advocacy, and case management.
Address: 731 S. Pear Orchard Rd. Suite 51, Ridgeland, MS 39157
Email: help@ccjackson.org
Child Abuse Prevention - Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services
Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services offers programs dedicated to child abuse prevention and protection in Mississippi.
Address: 750 N. State St, Jackson, MS 39202
Children's Advocacy Centers of Mississippi
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: 1675 Lakeland Drive, Suite 505, Jackson, MS 39216
Email: liz@mschaptercacs.org
Hours:
8:00-5:00
Christians in Action - Emergency Shelter for Children
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: 2025 N Siwell Road, Jackson, MS 39212
Email: jwilder@christiansinactionms.com
Hours:
24 hours/day
Christians in Action, Inc.
Christians In Action Emergency Shelter offers shelter for children birth through 17 in custody of MDCPS
Address: 4057 S Siwell Road, Jackson, MS 39212
Email: earrington@christiansinactionms.com
Hours:
8:00-4:00 Monday through Thursday, Friday 8:00 - 12:00
Community Care Network - Sue's Home
Community Care Network helps families find and sustain permanent housing by providing housing assistance, life skills training, and workforce development for clients and their children. We collaborate with other agencies and providers who assist with counseling, health care, child care, and employment.
Address: 7400 Fountainbleau Road, Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Email: contactus@ccnms.org
Creating Housing Options in Communities for Everyone (CHOICE) Program
CHOICE provides rental assistance to make housing affordable for individuals with serious mental illness. Community Mental Health Centers provide services appropriate to the individual based on their individual needs.
Email: choice.referral@mshc.com
Domestic Abuse Family Shelter
Domestic Abuse Family Shelter helps get victims out of an abusive situation and establish a foundation to build a better future.
Ever Reaching Community Outreach
Ever Reaching Community Outreach serves as a MS Food Network food pantry & can provide monthly food assistance. In addition, Ever Reaching Community Outreach also provides gently-used baby items, clothes, housewares, furniture & appliances at no charge to those in need and connects families to ministry partners and organizations who offer additional resources.
Address: 306 N Brooks Avenue, Pelahatchie, MS 39145
Email: Erco@everreaching.org
Hours:
Tuesdays & Thursdays 9 am to 1 pm
Additional Phone Numbers:
601-717-2675
Family Crisis Services of Northwest Mississippi, Inc.
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: P.O. Box 1698, Oxford, MS 38655
Email: info@oxfordadvocacy.org
God's Haven
God's Haven offers weekly programs to adults who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Adults in our programs are usually parents of children in God's Haven's Student Programs. Programs include: Weekly Bible Study and Mentoring, Employment Assistance, Housing Assistance.
Address: 6603 Jackson Raymond Road, Raymond, MS 39154
Email: volunteer@gods-haven.com
Grace's House Inc
Grace's House Inc offers permanent and transitional housing for persons living with HIV and housing services in the community for individuals and families regardless of status, including financial assistance paying for rent/mortgages/utilities, tuition assistance, transportation, a food pantry/kitchen and job training.
Address: 236 Millsaps Ave, Jackson, MS 39202
Email: info@gracehousems.org
Hours:
7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence, Inc.
The Center offers emergency domestic violence/human trafficking shelter programs (Biloxi and Pascagoula); individual, group, and family counseling for adults and children; court advocacy and civil legal services; therapeutic preschool program; outreach education; housing placement; case management; and crisis intervention.
Address: 213 Porter Avenue, Biloxi, MS 39530
Hours:
Open 24/7
Additional Phone Numbers:
228-762-8267
Hancock Resource Center
Hancock Resource Center offers solutions for homelessness, mortgage delinquency and foreclosure, transitional housing for domestic abuse survivors, and financial literacy/home buying classes.
Address: 454 Highway 90, Suite B, Waveland, MS
Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center
Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center's mission is to respond to child abuse with a supportive team approach that reduces trauma through advocacy, treatment, education and prevention.
Address: 5627 Getwell Road, Suite B3, Southaven, MS 38672
Email: info@healingheartscac.org
Hours:
8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Hope Haven Children's Advocacy Center
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: 706 Highway 90, Bay St. Louis, MS 3957
Email: info@hopehavencac.org
Joe Rowland Therapeutic Group Home for Boys - Southern Christian Services
Therapeutic group homes provide family style living for children/youth who are unable to remain in their homes because of abuse, neglect, or serious behavioral or emotional challenged
Kids Hub Child Advocacy Center
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: 15 Millbranch Road, Hattiesburg, MS 39402
Email: info@kidshubms.com
Hours:
8:00-5:00 M-F
Kids Hub Child Advocacy Center
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: 335 Second Street, Columbia, MS 39429
Email: info@kidshubms.com
Hours:
8-5 M-F
Matt's House Women's Shelter
Matt’s House Women's Shelter provides safe and compassionate emergency shelter to homeless women and homeless women with children.
Address: 355 Livingston St, Jackson, MS 39202
Email: info@stewpot.org
Mental Health Association of South MS
Mental Health Association of South MS provides resources and support services for those seeking mental wellness and recovery, including those with mental health, intellectual disability disorder, substance abuse and homelessness issues.
Address: 4803 Harrison Circle, Gulfport, MS 38507
Email: info@msmentalhealth.org
Mission First Legal Aid Office
The Mission First Legal Aid Office provides civil legal assistance to individuals who are unable to afford a private attorney.
Address: 858 North Street, Jackson, MS 39202
Email: sshannon@missionfirst.org
Mississippi Attorney General Office's Bureau of Victim Assistance
The Office of the Mississippi Attorney General's Bureau of Victim Assistance offers support for crime and abuse victims, referrals to victim services, shelters, community services, job training, and pro bono resources, and assistance in applying for domestic abuse protection orders.
Address: 550 High Street, Jackson, MS 39205
Mississippi Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center
The Mississippi Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center offers residential treatment for pregnant patients and patients with dependent children.
Address: 13181 Reece Bergeron Rd, Biloxi, MS 39532
Email: Mike@msdatc.com
Hours:
24/7
Additional Phone Numbers:
855-699-9955
Mississippi Home Corporation
Mississippi Home Corporation helps Mississippians finance an affordable home and helps renters find affordable rental units.
Address: 735 Riverside Dr., Jackson, MS 39202
Natchez Children's Services Children's Advocacy Center
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: 33 Fatherland Road, Natchez, MS 39120
Email: info@natchezcac.org
Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Friday 8:30 am to 2:30 pm
Parents & Families - Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services
Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services helps advocate for improved conditions for families, support the families, stabilize those in crisis, reunify those who are separated, strengthen families, and connect families to the resources that will sustain them in the future.
Address: 750 N. State St, Jackson, MS 39202
Email: prevention@mdcps.ms.gov
Project Recovery Rapid Re-housing
Project Recovery (RRH) assist families who are experiencing homelessness, living in shelters and those who to be quickly re-housed and stabilized in permanent housing.
RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network)
RAINN offers 24/7 confidential help to help to victims of sexual abuse. A highly trained specialists to talk victims through what to do next and offers resources that can assist with next steps toward healing and recovery.
Recovery House
Recovery House is a 12 bed residential substance abuse treatment program for women, with priority given to pregnant women, IV drug users, and those residing in the Golden Triangle area.
Address: 770 Golding Road, Columbus, MS 39702
Email: blong@recoveryhouse.com
Safe Haven
If you find yourself unable to care for your newborn, Mississippi's safe haven law allows you to safely surrender babies 45 days or younger to a licensed adoption agency, emergency medical services (EMS) provider, or hospital emergency room without any questions or legal consequences. This includes surrendering your baby pursuant to a 911 call. Confidential counselors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if you have questions or need to talk. Call at the National Safe Haven Crisis line at 1-866-99Baby1.
Safe Haven Baby Box - Long Beach Central Fire Station
If you find yourself unable to care for your newborn, Mississippi's safe haven law allows you to safely surrender babies 45 days or younger to a licensed adoption agency, emergency medical services (EMS) provider, or hospital emergency room without any questions or legal consequences. This includes surrendering your baby pursuant to a 911 call. The Long Beach Fire Station’s Safe Haven Baby Box also offers a place to surrender your newborn anonymously and safely. Confidential counselors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if you have questions or need to talk. Call at the National Safe Haven Crisis line at 1-866-99Baby1.
Address: 645 Klondyke Rd, Long Beach, MS 39560
Safe, Inc
Safe, Inc is a domestic violence shelter, rape crisis center, and a homeless services provider.
Sally Kate Winters Family Services
Sally Kate Winters Family Services offers a variety of social services and family support to child abuse victims through an accredited Children’s Advocacy Center. Sally Kate Winters offers four unique programs that operate on a referral and voluntary basis—Emergency Shelter Program, Runaway & Homeless Youth Program, Transitional Living Program, and the Children’s Advocacy Center.
Address: 801 North Division Street, West Point, MS 39773
Southern Christian Services - P.A.L.S. Transitional Living Program
PALS is a transitional living program for youth ages 18-23 designed to facilitate healing, recovery, and promote the social and emotional well-being of youth who have experienced homelessness, neglect, exposure to violence and/or trauma.
Southern Christian Services - Parent Strong Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention
SCSCY Prevention Program is a community based program that helps parents by educating and empowering families to create safe, stable, nurturing, and healthy environments that protect children from violence and maltreatment.
Southern Christian Services - Sunrise Safe Home
Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth operates the Sunrise Safe Home exclusively for adolescent survivors of sexual exploitation from human trafficking. This is a long-term, residential, therapeutic home for girls aged 12 – 19, with admission only offered for similar aged youth.
Email: Noreen@southernchristianservices.org
Hours:
24/7
Southern Christian Services - Trauma/Outpatient Counseling
Southern Christian Services offers counseling for children and youth from 3-23 years old and their families; counseling for parents and caregivers; counseling for children 3-23 years old who are victims of crime and their parents/caregivers
Southwest Mississippi Children's Advocacy Center
Child advocacy centers provide services for families and children who have experienced felony level abuse. Services may include forensic interviewing, family advocacy, court accompaniment, and access to concrete services, such as clothing closets or food banks.
Address: 420 Delaware Avenue, McComb, MS 39648
Email: contact@swmscac.org
Hours:
8:30-4:30 Mon-Thurs and 8:00 - 2:30 on Fridays
Stewpot
Stewpot Services including a community kitchen, food pantry, Meals on Wheels, an emergency shelter for homeless women and children and the Housing Assistance program that helps people move from homelessness into stable housing by providing short-term rental subsidies.
Address: 1100 W. Capitol St, Jackson, MS 39203
Email: info@stewpot.org
The Domestic Violence Shelters of Mississippi
The Domestic Violence Shelters of Mississippi are there to provide services to the families affected by domestic violence. Shelter services include: 24 hour crisis line, temporary housing, advocacy and referral programs, counseling, transportation and more.
The Rapid Re-Housing Domestic Violence Program - Catholic Charities of Jackson
The Rapid Re-Housing Domestic Violence Program provides a quick response to individuals and families who are displaced and homeless as a result of domestic violence.
Address: 731 S. Pear Orchard Rd. Suite 51, Ridgeland, MS 39157