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 a 30 day emergency shelter for women, men and children, providing a safe place to stay while working to secure permanent housing, case management, life skills education, employment readiness, and financial literacy.

Services available include: A) Finding suitable and affordable housing B) Accessing utility benefits and programs C) Managing money and budgeting D) Solving deed and title issues E) Helping with mortgage default and delinquency counseling F) Anti-predatory loan counseling and predatory loan relief

Provides eligible veteran households with outreach, assessment, case management, advocacy and assistance in obtaining VA and other benefits, which may include housing counseling, legal support, credit repair, financial planning services, and time-limited, temporary financial assistance.

Provides budget counseling services to the community.

Offers program to help create stable homes and break the cycle of poverty through budget coaching, job training, financial assistance, and whole-family support. Advocates have a presence at the school district building in the Student Right's department and in these schools: Anderson Elementary, Gideon Elementary, George Washington High School, Hamilton Elementary, Kenderton Elementary, Lamberton Elementary, Lea Elementary, Locke Elementary, Munoz-Marin Elementary, and Webster Elementary.

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.

Assists participants to become financially independent and self-sufficient. The program focuses on education, job training, job placement, and addressing other family needs.

Offers training and resources designed to support families and individuals who are interested in purchasing their very own home. The Housing Counseling & Money Management Center provides free housing counseling services to all Westmoreland County residents who have housing needs or problems that are potentially resolvable through home buyer education and/or pre-purchase counseling. Services offered include: A) Pre-closing class B) Pre-Purchase Counseling C) Homebuyer Education D) Credit Enhancement

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.

* 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.

This is a 12-week program designed for anyone who is struggling to make ends meet. The program will help develop an individualized plan to improve your situation. The course is led by certified instructors. Each participant will receive dinner every week, free child care, an incentive for participating, and class materials.

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 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 services that include training designed to increase self-reliance, living skills, and enhance self-confidence such as cooking, budgeting, housing search, benefits counseling, and home maintenance skills. Offers training to empower people with disabilities to speak for themselves and others. Supplies information and resource materials related to disability issues.

Provides long-term financial assistance with permanent housing. Offers case management for housing, job training and education, financial, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health.

Provides diverse supplemental services, including but not limited to resource referrals, transportation to medical appointments, shopping for groceries, personal care items to food bank families, financial literacy program, job search and resume writing assistance, and transitional housing (no emergency shelter available).

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.

One-on-one budgeting help for individuals seeking it

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

Helps Philadelphia homeowners to access low-interest home equity loans to invest in their properties. Offers a 10-year fixed-rate 3% interest home equity term loan ranging from $2,500 to $50,000 (inclusive of 10% contingency) to eligible homeowners, alongside financial counseling services.

Center for Financial Independence personnel will assist individuals/families in creating a household budget by looking at existing income & expenses.

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.

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.

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)