Public Benefits and Community Assistance

We offer in-person and online classes for adults in a variety of subjects and specialties each season.

We currently provide lists of resources, information, and legal advice for people of color and immigrants.

We provide lunch at noon every day and a continental breakfast six days each week through our drop-in Day Shelter.

Our programs are designed for those most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

This guide contains Mental Health and Domestic Violence resources for immigrant families in Cambridge.

We promote Community, Housing, Access, and Independence for children and adults of all abilities, strengths, and needs.

We issue temporary Cambridge disability parking permits to residents and individuals who work in Cambridge.

Our team of social workers can help make referrals to community services, help you complete applications, navigate resources, and help connect you to mental health or substance misuse programs.

This pocket guide contains information on many different types of resources that may be useful to individuals and families who are homeless

The Winter Warming Center is a welcoming and safe drop-in center where unsheltered adults can spend the night and be safe from the environmental hazards of the street during the winter months.

Safehome: Up to 1 month stay in a confidential location for an individual or family.
Transitional Housing: Up to two years of rental assistance for up to 16 survivors and their families.

Our programs are offered to Cambridge home owners who are are over the age of 60 or a person with disabilities. Call 617-349-6220 for more information.

Council on Aging offers a wide range of social services and is committed to meeting the needs of seniors. We can connect people to services or even meet them where they live to help them connect.

On The Rise is a daytime, drop-in program for unhoused women, trans, and non-binary people providing the relationships, safety and resources they need to move out of homelessness.

Want to process tough emotions with someone who understands? Our confidential peer-run HEART Line is here to listen and talk on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm. Call us at 617-902-0102.

We can help you with applying for health insurance like MassHealth, Health Connector plans, Health Safety Net, Medicare and dental plans through the Massachusetts Health Connector.

Have you been feeling stressed or overwhelmed? CEOC has a service to help!

Our aging information and service center makes referrals to elder services and disability services, either through those individuals directly or through a caretaker.

Our 24-hour free & confidential hotline provides emotional support, information, referrals, safety planning, and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+, kink, & polyamorous survivors of partner abuse.

This guide is an overview of some of the organizations that serve to support LGBTQ+ older adults. There are local organizations, national organizations, and other information.

Peer-to-peer LGBTQ+ and QTBIPOC support groups. Phone-based and in-person.

We enhance the city's quality of life by improving our transportation system and city-wide mobility.

We will fix up 800+ donated bicycles and give them to qualified Cambridge residents. With bicycles people will also receive a bike lock, helmet, and lights.

Residents can apply for a new bicycle voucher (to buy from participating shops). Those selected can choose a pedal bike, e-bike, e-cargo bike, adaptive bicycle or electric wheelchair attachment.

We aim to create an environment that makes it easier for residents and people who work in the city to eat healthy and be physically active.

As part of our program, we hand out various combinations of sandwiches or bagged lunches, juice boxes, snacks, socks, some seasonal items, toiletry kits, and more to the community.

We provide meals and materials to individuals who are low-income or extremely low-income, and who are experiencing homeless, are housing insecure, or living in persistent poverty.