Butler County assistance programs.

Free medical care

The Women’s Health Issues in Miami-Valley Sisterhood (WHIIMS), which operates in Butler County Ohio, helps those in need by providing free medical services. The organization WHIIMS (contact@whiims.org) is a nonprofit group and it provides help with medical bills and health care needs. Some of the aid that they provide includes emergency grants to help pay medical bills and debts, prescription assistance,  prosthetic devices and even wigs! This aid is providing to women who live in Butler county who need help with bills. Find additional ways to get free health care. Continue.

Other clinics to call in the area that may offer low cost medical care, or that can refer you, include Butler County Community Health Consortium ((513) 425-8330) and the facilities they partner with. Include dental care, prescriptions, and other health care.

Butler County Community Action Agency

SELF, or Supports to Encourage Low-income Families, is the community action agency for Butler County Ohio. They offer several programs to help local residents with their bills and expenses, and that will also help people become self-sufficient over the long term. Some of their programs include:

 

 

 

• Weatherization- The organization works closely with the Community Action Partnership of Greater Dayton, and as a result of this SELF serves as Butler County's Weatherization intake center. SELF can help low-income individuals apply for this federal government program. Weatherization will install, for free, upgrades to clients homes, including extra insulation, caulking, windows, furnace tune ups, and more. The goal is to help people reduce their utility and heating bills.
   
• Utility and Heating Bill Assistance from the Home Energy Assistance Program & Summer Crisis Cooling Program – If you are struggling in today’s difficult economy, low income, elderly, or disabled, you may be eligible for grants from LIHEAP.  The Supports to Encourage Low-income Families agency (SELF) provides both winter and summer utility assistance for eligible families to ensure households of people who are low to moderate income, the elderly, people with disabilities and also families with younger children have the funds and resources to keep their power on, and their families’ safe. This is a federal government program that provides eligible household with grants and funds to pay their bills and keep their service on.
   
• Interview-Quality Clothing Closet – SELF helps low-income individuals preparing for job interviews and will provide business attire for work or interviews.
   
• Employment & education program - This program will help participants map out steps to success through Job search assistance, job training and resume building advise and tips.

Contact SELF at 1790 S. Erie Highway, Ste. A-C, Hamilton, OH 45011, (513) 868-9300

Variety of assistance programs exist

The Family Resource Center provides individuals and families in the Oxford Ohio and Butler County area with help and self-sufficiency services from nonprofit organizations and charities.

The groups provides lower income families with basic living essentials including household items, furniture, rent help, prescription medication assistance, utility and heating bill assistance, emergency food and shelter, and special transportation assistance. To learn more on patient assistance programs, click here.

In addition, the FRC center promotes self-sufficiency by helping clients with short-term financial planning, work training opportunities, long-term goal management, GED test training , work clothing vouchers, assistance and help with other employment, and English lessons for speakers of another language.

The FRC group helps clients with registration and scheduling services including Lions Club, Oxford Talawanda Dental Services, People United for Self Help and also the Ohio Benefit Bank organization. These referrals to these groups will assist clients with formula and diapers, dental services, medical assistance services and supplies, home repairs, , immunizations, job and employment search, free legal aid, affordable housing, parenting and eye exams or receiving glasses.

Last, but not least, the Holiday Gift Program is a program whereby Walmart gift cards are given to low and mid income families to offer a better holiday experience and help pay for holiday gifts. Phone (513) 523-5859.

St. Rapheal Social Service Center of Hamilton Ohio offers financial assistance for rent, utilities, security deposits, and heating bills. Prescription assistance and holiday meals and gifts are also offered, among other services. Funding is limited, and they may run out. Clothing and household products are also offered. (513) 603-8200

 

 

Salvation Army of Hamilton - Numerous assistance programs are offered. Free food, financial assistance for paying rent, heating, and energy bills, thrift stores, holiday programs, and basic living needs. Call (513) 863-1445.

Contact an attorney for free legal assistance

Legal Aid Society provides Hamilton and Butler County residents with a top quality source of legal information, representation, information, free advice and referral for low income and people in need of legal help in the area. Dial 513.241.9400.

Free foreclosure prevention and debt assistance

LifeSpan in a non-profit credit and HUD counseling agency that offers Senior assistance programs, credit repair, housing and free foreclosure counseling, foreclosure prevention, outpatient behavioral health services, debt assistance and reduction services and guardianship programs to qualified individuals. Phone 513.868.9220. Click here for more information on debt help and assistance programs.

Neighborhood Housing of Hamilton, Inc. offers foreclosure counseling, mortgage help, and counseling. The programs focus on those who are in danger of losing their home. Dial (513) 737-9301. Learn more on Ohio mortgage programs.

Employment and job finding programs

Stop by or call the Hamilton based Workforce One - Job Center at 513.785.6500. The center offers the following employment programs:

• Career counseling, resume review and job application assistance, interview skills and veteran assistance programs.
• The location is a so called One Stop career center that is housing job finding and assistance agencies and non-profit organizations which help jobseekers with all aspects of job search and ideally land them a new position.
• They also offer a resource room with computer access, fax machines and other resources.

Butler County and Hamilton food assistance programs

Several pantries, non-profits, and charities to turn to for free meals, food, groceries and nutritional items include the list below. Many of these locations can also refer people to programs for such expenses as rent, utility bills, and provide information on Ohio and federal government assistance programs.

• Community Meal Center - 513.867.5411
• Salvation Army - Hamilton - 513.867.5411
• Family Services - Middletown - 513.423.4637
• Lighthouse Food Pantry - 513.867.9463
• Mercy Franciscan at St. Raphael (Hamilton) - 513.603.8200
• Holding Hands Food Pantry - Miami Ohio. Dial (513) 868-3265. Food, clothing, and other items
• Serve City - (513) 737-9701. Food, shoes, clothing, groceries, and other aid.
• Find more food pantries in Butler County Ohio.

Low income, uninsured health care clinics and programs

Two options in the area to contact for high quality, discounted health care include the following two clinics - health care centers. Or click here for additional free health centers, clinics, and dental programs.

Medical Outreach Services Dept. - Mercy Franciscan at St. Raphael - This center helps low income people. The resources they offer include Prescription Assistance Programs, health screenings, vision screenings, medical debt consultations, Healthcare for the Homeless, and, most importantly access to health care programs, health education services, assistance for victims of breast cancer, and limited financial assistance with medical supplies and products. Phone 513.603.8200.

Ernest J. Bever Community Health Center - This clinic accepts government insurance programs, and offers health care and will bill according to a sliding scale. 513.892.1888