Catholic Charities Jacksonville Drive-Thru Food Pantry
Catholic Charities Jacksonville runs a drive-thru food pantry in Arlington for neighbors who are struggling. It serves people of all faiths and backgrounds and is an Equal Opportunity Provider.
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Center for Adult Learning
The library's Center for Adult Learning gives free, small-group classes to adults in Duval County. Classes help people improve their English, pass the GED test, or become a U.S. citizen. Classes are offered online, in the daytime and in the evening.
Changing Homelessness – Coordinated Entry
Changing Homelessness is selected as the Coordinated Entry System (CES) Lead and is the lead agency for the HUD Continuum of Care, a collaborative of over 50 agencies across Northeast Florida. People experiencing homelessness can reach it by phone or email the…
Charlie T. Joseph Senior Center
City senior center (congregate breakfast/lunch and activities per the shared division facts). Listed resources: ceramics room, computer lab, separate game room, billiards table, sewing machines, piano; monthly activities calendar.
Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R)
Help for families who are trying to find and choose child care in Duval County, where there are more than 400 child care programs. A CCR&R specialist talks with you about what matters to your family — location, hours, type of program,…
City of Jacksonville Senior Services
The Senior Services Division administers community-wide social service programs serving older adults in Jacksonville/Duval County, with a mission to encourage and empower senior citizens to live active, independent lifestyles through social, educational and wellness programs. Programs include Community and Senior Centers, the…
City of Jacksonville Veterans Services — Free VSO Claims Help
MAVD is a one-stop resource center offering Veterans' Benefits Assistance, including guidance on VA claims, healthcare enrollment, pensions, and disability compensation. Its County Veteran Service Officers are certified professionals who help Veterans and their families file claims and secure benefits, including filing…
City Rescue Mission – New Life Inn Overnight Shelter
When the street has become the only place to call home, men, women and women with children can come to City Rescue Mission to find shelter on a nightly basis, with a safe environment, a shower, a meal, and clean clothing in…
City Rescue Mission — Food and Public Meals
City Rescue Mission offers food, clothing, shelter care, transitional housing and residential recovery programs for men and women struggling with homelessness, hunger and substance abuse. Its New Life Inn at 234 W. State Street hosts public meals for those in need, including…
Clanzel T. Brown Community Center and Park — Teen Center and K-5 Program
A City of Jacksonville community center whose official page states two named youth services beyond general recreation: a Teen Center managed by the Boys & Girls Club of Northeast Florida, and a K-5 program, each with its own phone number on the…
Clara White Mission — Feeding Program and Groceries
Clara White Mission reports serving 94,000 breakfast and meals to go annually and distributing 264,766 bags of groceries. Feeding is one of its core programs, alongside housing, advocacy and training to prevent and reduce homelessness.
Connexion — Transportation Disadvantaged (TD) Service
TD is an eligibility category inside JTA's Connexion paratransit service (this is the separate TD certification door, with its own eligibility center and fare). Connexion provides destination-to-destination shared public transportation for people with disabilities who cannot use fixed-route buses for some or…
Crawford Center Head Start
A Head Start center run by Episcopal Children's Services, listed on ECS's official Duval County flyer (license #C04DU1114). Head Start is free, full-day, center-based early learning for children ages 3–5 from families with low incomes, with meals and snacks and health, dental,…
Daily Bread Food Pantry
The Daily Bread Food Pantry gives weekly food to families and individuals in need in the Mandarin area. A standard distribution includes canned vegetables, soups and fruits, tuna or chicken, boxed pasta and cereals, multi-serving oatmeal, and more. The pantry also runs…
DAV Chapter 7 — VA Claims & Benefits Help (Chapter Service Office)
DAV Chapter 7's service officers help veterans and their families with VA claims and benefits, or a referral, at its chapter service office in Jacksonville. The service officers are all volunteers and are all disabled veterans themselves, so the chapter asks you…
Davis Street WIC and Nutrition Services
A WIC clinic run by the Florida Department of Health in Duval County at its Davis Street offices in Jacksonville. WIC gives eligible families healthy food on a WIC EBT card, nutrition education, breastfeeding counseling and support, and referrals to health care.…
DCPS Free Breakfast and Free and Reduced Price Meals
Breakfast will continue to be free for all DCPS students. Lunch will also remain free at most DCPS schools through the federal Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), but 37 schools do not participate in CEP, so families at those schools who may qualify…
Deermeadows Food Pantry
Deermeadows Baptist Church runs its own weekly food pantry to assist the under-resourced and hungry in the Baymeadows/Southside community. People needing assistance come to the church office entry, where volunteers are available to help. This is the church's own Thursday pantry —…
DESC Groceries and Clothing
DESC provides groceries and clothing in downtown Jacksonville on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. It also offers a Help Hub to talk through next steps and work boots or non-slip shoes for people who need them for employment.
Developmental Learning Center (DLC) — formerly DLC Nurse & Learn
A faith-based, nonprofit special needs learning and childcare center in Jacksonville, serving children since 1989. DLC provides year-round childcare, preschool, VPK, Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care (PPEC), extended day, after-school and summer programs, with registered nursing care and physical, occupational and speech therapy…
DOH-Duval Central Health Plaza — Women, Children and Comprehensive Care
Central Health Plaza houses DOH-Duval's Center for Women and Children, offering pediatric care, maternity and prenatal care, family planning, immunizations, pregnancy testing, STD testing and treatment, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and well woman care. Its Comprehensive Care Center offers HIV/AIDS primary…
DOH-Duval South Jacksonville Children’s Dental Center
The South Jacksonville Children's Dental Center is in Suite 200 of DOH-Duval's South Jacksonville site. The same site, in Suite 101, offers pediatric care, immunizations, family planning, maternal and prenatal care, pregnancy testing, STD testing and treatment, and well woman care.
Duval Family Health Center (Sulzbacher) — Dental Care
Duval Family Health Center, the health division of Sulzbacher, provides essential dental services to support overall health, alongside its medical and behavioral health care. It states: if you do not have insurance or cannot afford to pay, we will still see you…
Duval Family Health Center (Sulzbacher) — Medical and Behavioral Health Care
Duval Family Health Center, the health division of Sulzbacher, provides medical, behavioral health, and dental care to individuals and families across Jacksonville, including primary care, women's health, optometry, substance use services and specialty care. It states: if you do not have insurance…
Early Steps (Northeastern Early Steps)
Free early intervention for infants and toddlers from birth to 36 months who have developmental delays, disabilities, or conditions that put them at risk of delay. Services are provided where the child lives, learns and plays, and can include speech, physical and…
ElderSource — Area Agency on Aging HelpLine
The ElderSource HelpLine is the place to start for help if you are an older adult, an adult living with a disability or a caregiver, and ElderSource is an Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC). ElderSource also offers Healthy Aging wellness programs…
Emerald Tiger WIC and Nutrition Services
A WIC clinic run by the Florida Department of Health in Duval County at its South Jacksonville Health Services site on University Boulevard South. WIC gives eligible families healthy food on a WIC EBT card, nutrition education, breastfeeding counseling and support, and…
Emergency and Support Services for Florida Veterans
The Florida Veterans Foundation was founded by the Florida Legislature in 2008 to provide emergency and support services and programs for veterans and their families across Florida. A Florida veteran who needs financial assistance is directed by the Foundation to reach out…
Emergency Assistance Program
The Social Services Division provides an Emergency Assistance Program for eligible households and individuals facing financial difficulties due to an unexpected emergency, such as loss of a job, loss or reduction of household income, unexpected medical expenses, car repairs, family dissolution, death…
Emergency Financial Assistance
Catholic Charities Jacksonville helps people in the community who are struggling to pay utility, rent, or mortgage payments. The program provides emergency financial assistance, case management, and referrals for other support, with the goal of helping clients stay safely in their homes.…
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