Department of Public Safety Resource Listings
The Department of Public Safety website provides a searchable database of active service providers by county in North Carolina. Information may be out of date – always call to confirm agency address and stated restrictions.
The county-specific query page lets you create either short-form or detailed listings of the providers. The following are short-form listings for each of the WNC counties, which can be printed from a PDF document.
- Buncombe (note: Salvation Army does not permit people on the sex offender registry to stay.)
- Transylvania
- Haywood
- Henderson
- Madison
- Polk
- Rutherford
Geneva Resources By Category
The NC 211 site can be used to create category specific resource listings (search is located in middle of the homepage). To speak with a Referral Specialist, call or dial from your phone. The call is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day.
Search topics that you can try include:
- Food Pantries
- Prepared Meals
- Homeless Shelters
- Transitional Housing/Housing Assistance
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Community Health Clinics
- Discount Meds
- Female Health Care
- Evaluations
- Alternative Health
- Miscellaneous
- Public Health
- STD Clinic
Miscellaneous Resources
- Household Budgeting Worksheet from the budgeting section of ConsumerCredit.com
- Head Start brochure from Community Action Opportunities Head Start page
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Geneva Health & Human Services offers information on Public Assistance, Public Health, Social Work Services, Veterans Benefits, children services, Medicaid and more.
- The State Health & Human Services page links to all county HHS websites.
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FTC Facts for Consumers publication on Fair Credit Billing Act.
- OnTrackWNC website: http://www.ontrackwnc.org/index.htm
- FTC Consumer Website: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/
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Community Action Opportunities helps solve problems that cause poverty.
- Weatherization Services help those on limited incomes make their homes more energy efficient and safer to live in.
- They also have a Weatherization Services Brochure detailing the program.
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OnTrack WNC offers financial education and financial counseling services, including:
- Budget
- Get out of debt
- Buy a home
- Need a laptop? You may be able to obtain one free through Reconnecting Laptops for Reentry
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YWCA of Asheville offers Drop-In Child Care and limited free child care to those in transition.
- Empowerment Child-Care
- Drop-In Child Care by the hour
- Assurance Wireless offers free phone and limited free voice/text to certain low-income households who qualify.