Benefits Assistance
In this section, you will find services that are available to help teens and young adults with obtaining benefits and emergency needs assistance in San Diego County.
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Use the tools below to find the benefits assistance resources that fit your unique set of needs.
Catholic Charities: Food Resource Center-El Centro
Emergency food assistance and benefit enrollment assistance
(760) 353-6823
Catholic Charities: Food Resource Center-Vista
Emergency food assistance and benefit enrollment assistance
(760) 631-4792
Catholic Charities: Rachel’s Night Shelter
Rachel’s Night Shelter exists to provide supportive, safe, and sober emergency, short-term, and mid-term shelter for homeless women.
(619) 696-0873
Catholic Charities: Rachel’s Women’s Center
Drop-in day center for homeless and very-low income women
(619) 696-0873
Child Welfare Services: Extended Foster Care
Extended Foster Care (EFC) provides support to foster care youth up to their 21st birthday. This provides foster youth with an opportunity to have increased responsibilities and independence, which will help prepare them for self sufficiency.
1 (866) 457-4636
Consumer Center for Health Education and Advocacy
Free help to individuals needing information about how they can obtain health benefits. Provides consumers with information about their health plans and educates them about their rights, including information on the Affordable Care Act (health care reform) and how it affects them. Advocates are available for those who have had their health services denied, reduced, or terminated, or who are unhappy with their health services. Provides investigation of mental health patient’s complaints and is designated by the County of San Diego as a patients’ rights advocate for outpatient mental health services. Free help with Medi-cal eligibility, share of cost, termination or any type of questions.
(619) 744-0935
Crisis House: Family Resource Center
Today, Crisis House offers a continuum of emergency services, social services and housing services that assist families and individuals in need with a special focus on victims of domestic violence, veterans and the homeless. Crisis House is a beacon of light for our neighbors who struggle daily to overcome difficult circumstances that significantly interfere with their ability to carry out such primary aspects of daily life as self care, household management, interpersonal relationships, and obtaining employment. The common goal held for every client entering Crisis House is one of self-sufficiency.
(619) 444-1194
Disability Help Center
Disability Help Center offers services to help you receive your Social Security disability benefits.
Main Line: (619) 282-1761
HOTLINE: (888) 418-8860
(619) 282-1761
Doors of Change: Hope through Expressive Arts and Love (HEAL)
The Hope through Expressive Arts and Love (HEAL) is a new program for homeless and disadvantaged youth ages 12-24. The weekly HEAL program facilitates healing and empowerment through the creation of all mediums of art with an emphasis on recycled and sustainable art and jewelry. The program is youth driven and focuses on creating projects that the youth can continue to create on the streets to earn money and live more self-sufficiently.
(562) 212-7560
Doors of Change: Taking Music and Arts to the Streets (TMATS)
TMATS is a weekly event at which homeless youth ages 12-24 gather in Ocean Beach for free music and art lessons, dinner, clothes, shoes, social services, and chiropractic treatments. The music program includes lessons in guitar, ukulele, keyboard, drums, violin, mandolin, bass, and harmonica. When youth participate in TMATS, they are incentivized to help themselves. If they attend five two-hour classes, they earn an instrument of their choice or art supplies.
(760) 505-7077
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We do not endorse any specific organization listed nor are we responsible for ensuring the quality of the services listed. Users should always select services at their own discretion. Additionally, this information is subject to change as funding for programs can shift over time, though we do our very best to keep the resource center as up-to-date as possible.