Community Resources Guide

Provides safe and stable homes to help struggling mothers and their dependent children to get back on their feet.

This program provides a mother and her children transitional housing while she gains or maintains employment, saves money, receives counseling, and learns life skills such as budgeting and healthy parenting techniques. 

Depending on their commitment to the program, mothers may stay for up to one year.

 Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

Autism services are available for Medicaid-eligible children and youth with autism, aged birth through 20, who require more intensive support.

From birth through adulthood, we have programs and a highly-skilled, compassionate staff who can help assess your situation and provide the most appropriate treatment, therapies, and services. Whatever we can do to help you reach your maximum potential, we’ll be with you and your family all the way. 

Programs available

Recognized leader of diverse residential and community-based education, rehabilitation, and employment programs that prepare individuals who are deaf, blind, deafblind, and multi-disabled to reach their potential in education, independence, and career.

Programs available include: 

Our current programs and services include, but are not limited to the following: information and resource assistance, resource directory, community education (i.e., parents, providers, family members) through our quarterly e-newsletter, exhibitions, speaking engagements, conferences, workshops and more. 

Boys & Girls of South Alabama is a safe space for youth 6-18 years old to go after school and during the summer. We focus on helping kids become future ready through programming in key areas such as: Academic Success, Character & Leadership, Healthy Lifestyles, Teen Programs/ Life & Workforce Readiness, S.T.E.M. Programs 

Mission Statement: The Camp ASCCA mission is to help eligible individuals with disabilities and/or health impairments achieve equality, dignity, and maximum independence. This is to be accomplished through a safe and quality program of camping, therapeutic recreation, virtual programming, and education in a year-round barrier-free environment. 

Our goal is to serve those who can derive maximum benefit from the resident camp experience and provide a healthier, happier, longer, and more productive life for children and adults of all abilities.

Camp Peace After School Program: Meal, Bible Study, Tutoring & Activities for Elementary Student: Mondays 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Contact janie@lightofthevillage.org for more info and to register.

Child Care South offers reasonably priced childcare. To be eligible for this service, the low-income parent must be employed and/or enrolled in school.

Reporting child abuse can be scary, but if you are a witness to or a victim of child abuse there is a huge benefit to making the report yourself. Being able to tell your story first hand gives the child care worker much better information than if it came from someone not involved.

This program provides help to low-income families with a dependent child under age 18 or under age 19 if the child is a full-time student. 

Services that are provided are temporary cash payments, work and training services, and childcare assistance for parents who are employed or in training activities. Temporary assistance for needy families (T.A.N.F.)

Phone: (251) 470-5800

Programs Available: 

Transitional Housing Program, Sybil H. Smith Family Village, (SSFV)

The Baldwin Family Village provides 12 months of housing stability and wrap-around services for up to 100 single women and women with children annually from Baldwin County.

• BFV seeks to break the cycle of homelessness and help women and children re-establish and maintain self-sufficiency by focusing on accountability, case management, life skills, and behavior modification.
• Contact the Baldwin Family Village, at 251-210-4045 for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures.

SSFV seeks to help homeless single women and homeless women with children establish and maintain self-sufficiency. An 18-unit facility that provides 24 months of housing for up to 150 individuals annually.

The After School Achievement Program (ASAP) provides a variety of academic and character-building activities for underserved youth. 

Programming includes: 

Food Pantry: 3rd Saturday of the month at 9:30 A.M. The line begins prior to the start time. Supply is limited, arrive accordingly.

English Classes: Mondays & Wednesdays 7:00 P.M.- 8:00 P.M. & Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 A.M.-11:15 A.M.

Passport to Literacy: A tutoring program that promotes literacy among 1st through 12th grade children of resettled refugee and immigrant families. Attendance is incentivized by membership on Dwell’s soccer team. Passport is a 12-week program that runs both in the fall and spring of each year.

We provide free educational services for the children of agricultural workers, from 6 weeks to 5 years old. 

The families that qualify and enroll in our program do not have to pay for any of the services they receive. 

Parenting education, parent training on topics related to child development, nutrition, and health & safety, adult education in financial literacy, computer basics, ESL and more. 

ECMHSP actively recruits and provides services to children who are suspected of having a disability or are diagnosed with having a disability.