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Assistance and Benefits

General Assistance​


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  • In-Home Supportive Services (San Bernardino):

    • Click the link to the website to find the approprate office to call for your member. Before calling to refer your member, you must first collect their:

      • Name
      • Date of Birth
      • SSN
      • Ethnicity
      • Emergencu Contact (No relation to the member)
      • Phone Number


  • BenefitsCAL: CalFresh, CalWorks (Cash assistance for families)

    • Website

    • Login/Create an Account

    • Here are the documents that you're going to need for BenefitsCal.

      • Bank Statements or any sort of proof of income
      • Bills or proof of monthly expenses (any expenses, it could be bills, phone line, car payment, etc.)
      • Proof of rent
      • ID/Driver's License
      • Dependent/s date of birth

  • CASH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR IMMIGRANTS (CAPI)

    • Your county welfare office is authorized to collect the information on this form under Section 18940 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and the federal laws that govern the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) program.

    • This information is needed to help your county welfare office determine your eligibility for CAPI benefits.


  • PELL GRANT: FAFSA - Financial Aid for Low Income Students

    • You might need the following information or documents as you fill out the 2024–25 FAFSA form:

      • Your parents' SSNs if you're a dependent student.
      • Tax returns.
      • Records of child support received.
      • Current balances of cash, savings, and checking accounts.
      • Net worth of investments, businesses, and farm.

  • CALVCB: California Victims Compensation Board











  • Emergency Motel Vouchers: (San Bernardino)
909-793-2673



  • Strong Hearted Native Women’s Coalition:

    • They help woman with domestic violence, they should be able to help her with the RO and getting her emergency shelter.
    • She wasn’t able to put my member in a shelter because they were full but she did get her into a hotel for 14days so she had somewhere to stay with her daughter

Norma Contreras Case manager

760-644-4671



  • Housing Discrimmination:

    • Refer to this link if you came accross LL or PMs who doesn't want to accept Section 8 voucher

  • Childcare:

    • It just routes to the county office, so ask them about the California Alternative Payment Program (CAPP) and Voucher based Child Care programs

Childcare for those with CalWorks:

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/benefits-services/child-services

  • Car Service:

    • They need to be reserved at least two days in advance.
    • If you call them number they set everything up.
    • You just need their member ID , their address, where they are going and pick up time
855-673-3195

  • National Domestic Violence Hotline:
800-799-7233

  • Adult Protective Services (APS): Riverside County

    • Department of Public Social Services
800-491-7123

  • For IHSS Providers

      • Until September 30
    • The providers have until September 30th to complete the courses and until November 15th to claim payment.
    • Apparently it has been in place for a few years now and they are shutting it down completely this year, unfortunately.
    • Try to get all your IHSS providers on this so they can collect as much as possible. -They just need to do online courses and get paid.
    • I think the sky is the limit haha as long as the trainings they choose is available for the type of in home care they do.

  • Inland Regional Center:

    • Here's a website for inland regional center.
    • You can apply on here & there's more information about the program.
    • The goal is to help better the lives of disabled people.
    • They offer several resources including a recreational fund monthly and references to drs.
    • They give free seminars for parents/ guardians to learn more about their loved ones disability

  • Vital Check:

  • You can order birth certificates and death certificates


  • Diaper Distribution Program:

    • Community Resource Center (CRC)
    • Emergency food, food pantry
    • Diaper and formula
    • Books
    • Parenting education
    • Understand government programs
    • Computer or internet access
    • Navigating the system
    • Help fill out forms
    • Resume development
909-771-2891




Email:

thelighthouse143@gmail.com

Phone:

(909) 793-2673

Address:

612 Lawton Street, Redlands, CA 92374

  • Mary's Haven:

Phone:

Mary's Haven


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