Chicago Help Resources

Food

• Food Stamp Eligibility:  1-800-843-6154
• Greater Chicago Food Depository
• WIC Program:  1-800-323-4769

Shelter

• Chicago Coalition for the Homeless:  1-312-435-4548
• Howard Brown Broadway Youth Center:  1-773-388-1600
• La Casa Norte
• National Runaway Switchboard: 1-800 RUNAWAY
• The Night Ministry 
• Teen Living Programs

Support for Domestic Violence or Sexual Assault

• Battered Women's Network
• Between Friends
• City of Chicago Division on Domestic Violence:  1-877-863-6338
  (TTY 1-877-863-6339)
• Community Counseling Centers of Chicago C4
• Illinois Attorney General Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services Directory
• Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) Hotline:  1-800-656-4673
• Rape Victim Advocates:  Rape Crisis Hotline 1-888-293-2080
• YWCA 

Suicide Prevention

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:    1-800-273-TALK (8255)
• Red para la Prevención de Suicidio:  1-888-628-9454

Support for Victims of Sex and/or Labor Trafficking

• The Salvation Army PROMISE Initiative:  1-877-606-3158
  
  

Support for Parents

• American SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Institute
• Fussy Baby Network:  1-888-431-2229
• National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Parents Anonymous® National Parent Helpline:  1-855-4A-PARENT
• National Safe Haven Alliance:  1-888-510-BABY
• Parents Anonymous®
• Putative Father Registry:  312-808-9040

Support for Victims of Violence

• Angel Corps

Mental Health or Medical Crisis

• Call 911
• Al-Anon & Alateen:  1-888-425-2666
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Howard Brown Health Center (AIDS/HIV):  1-773-388-1600
• Marijuana Anonymous:  1-800-766-6779
• DCFS/DHFS Medical Card Hotline:  1-800-228-6533
• American Association of Poison Control Centers:  Poison Hotline 1-800-222-1222

Legal Assistance

• Chicago Volunteer Legal Services:  1-312-332-1624 
• Cook County Legal Hotline:  1-800-738-9200
• Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago:  (312) 341-1070