Support Services and Consumer Resources offers assistance on a variety of legal, financial and health services. Age eligibility may apply. Services available include: A) Financial and Legal Advice B) Benefit Screenings and Application Assistance C) Medicare and Healthcare Options; APPRISE Counselor D) Assistance with LIHEAP E) Access to Other Agencies and Government Services

Offering both individual and group budgeting education, we'll show you how to balance and maintain your budget to achieve financial success.

Provides personalized financial education and coaching to help individuals achieve stability and confidence in managing their money. Services Include: - Budgeting Guidance: Learn practical strategies to manage income, track expenses, and set realistic financial goals. - Credit Education & Repair Assistance: Receive help understanding credit reports, disputing inaccuracies, and improving your credit score. - Identity Theft Awareness: Understand risks and protective measures for yourself and your family. - Youth Financial Education: Engage children with interactive lessons that introduce basic money management concepts. - Financial Support for Housing: Guidance on budgeting for rent, utilities, or mortgage payments when applicable. Sessions are available in-person or via Zoom.

Provides housing stabilization services including credit and budget counseling; foreclosure prevention counseling; eviction prevention through payment assistance when funds are available and landlord-tenant mediation; and first-time home buyers education and counseling.

Provides budget counseling and instruction as well as providing referrals if needed

Offers intensive, client-centered case management approach to empower families experiencing poverty and address root causes preventing them from becoming more self-sufficient. Helps enrolled families connect with community resources, develop personalized action plans, and objectively track their progress over time.

Provides comprehensive counseling, including free pregnancy testing and free limited 1st trimester ultrasounds. Also provides education regarding sound nutrition, budgeting and life skills coaching.

Provides financial counseling to help persons shift from debt management to saving. Offers sessions covering money management and budgeting, banking and basic financial transactions, credit reports and using credit wisely, consumer protection and debt collection, student loans, bankruptcy, negotiation, investments and future planning, homeownership, insurance, and benefits.

* Coordinated Entry Access Site, connects individuals to programs within the Conference or refers out to community resources. Also helps qualifying low-income individuals and families with rental assistance, goal setting and budgeting. Provides bus passes for interviews or for first week of employment. Toiletries/personal grooming items provided as available. * Various rental assistance programs * Homeless Supportive Services: Provides intensive case management and referrals to other support services for single, adult, chronically homeless individuals. Assist street homeless men and women to connect to community resources as they strive to move from homelessness to self-sufficiency. * Social Security Representative Payee Program: Provides financial monitoring and fund administration to individuals receiving social security who are unable to manage their own finances.

Works with clients past the fulfillment of basic needs to provide the support necessary for clients to achieve long-term stability. Offers a variety of long-term support, education, and counseling services on topics such as budgeting and buying a home. Also offers an intervention program for male perpetrators involved in domestic violence, as well as several specialized permanent supportive housing programs for chronically homeless individuals and families.

Offers supports that empower individuals and families to obtain the education, resources, and tools needed to achieve their goals and improve financial stability for adults working toward self-sufficiency. Individuals and families work with Supports Specialists who provide one-on-one coaching, advocacy, resources and referrals, and wrap around supportive services. Working with the Specialists, participants identify their strengths and needs, develop a goal plan with action steps, and learn about resources that can help make goal attainment more achievable.

Offers a two-year program for single parent families in Allegheny County. Provides monthly workshops on the topics of financial literacy, self-care, holistic healing, career and education counseling, informal mental health support, and information about early childhood development and restorative parenting practices.

Provides information and guidance for people who want to develop and preserve assets or need assistance in obtaining and responsibly using credit, paying bills, reducing their debt burden, and managing their financial resources.

Empowers and coaches low-income families to attain a family-sustaining wage in order to achieve and maintain economic self-sufficiency and live free of public assistance. Provides resources to bridge the gap between public assistance and stability.

Professionally trained and certified financial counselors provide one-on-one coaching tailored to individual's needs. - Review financial health - Develop a spending and savings plan to achieve goals (budget) - Evaluate and explain credit reports - Create a plan for paying off debts - Decide if a debt management plan is right for the individual - Keep on track through regular follow-up visits as needed Member of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC)

Assists clients in multiple situations to achieve self-sufficiency through casework services, including development of a plan to establish self sufficiency and help with budgeting.

Works with individuals to setup a budget, how to stick to a spending plan, how to negotiate with creditors to make payments that suit the clients income, how to overcome adversity to improve life and become self-sufficient, how to balance a check book, and any other education needed.

Offers single mothers experiencing homelessness or at risk of being homeless the opportunity to get permanent housing and establish family and financial stability over a period of 12-18 months. Services include case management, budgeting and financial education, goal planning, resource development, life skills, parenting support, and connection to a group of volunteers offering companionship. NOTE: Does not offer emergency housing or emergency rental or utility assistance.

Offers Budgeting Basics, Career Readiness, Getting Ahead, and Case Management. With the guidance of a Self-Sufficiency Coordinator, you will set goals, identify challenges, and map a course to success, all while focusing on strengths and skill-building along the way.

Provides coordinated entry for domestic violence survivors as well as homeless emergency shelter, help with locating and establishing a new residence, and case management.

Offers pre-natal classes covering fetal development, nutrition, safety, and what to expect during pregnancy, labor and delivery. Also offers parenting classes covering topics like baby basics, nutrition, budgeting, and discipline. Currently conducting parenting classes individually by telephone and Zoom.

Offers pre-natal classes covering fetal development, nutrition, safety, and what to expect during pregnancy, labor and delivery. Also offers parenting classes covering topics like baby basics, nutrition, budgeting, and discipline. Currently conducting parenting classes individually by telephone and Zoom.

Provides financial counseling to help persons shift from debt management to saving. Offers sessions covering money management and budgeting, banking and basic financial transactions, credit reports and using credit wisely, consumer protection and debt collection, student loans, bankruptcy, negotiation, investments and future planning, homeownership, insurance, and benefits.

Providing classes through local banking institutions on budgeting. Educates individuals on how to manage a saving and checking account.

Provides money management, budgeting classes: dealing with debt and bad credit, tips on spending and saving. DHS helps with applications for state and federal benefits also available, offers adult literacy programs and GED Classes, provides access to community computers. Employment center and mobile classes are also available.