Public Benefits and Community Assistance

Youth Headspace contains many youth wellness and mental health resources. Check it out!

We provide one-to-one mentoring to youth and adults with disabilities to reach their full potential.

We have several support groups, meetings, and events happening virtually for parents and their children.

A home visiting programs' primary purpose is to support and encourage parents and caregivers, share information, and connect families with resources in their home and/or a convenient location.

We can help you with many housing-related services, including signing up for the Cambridge Affordable Housing list, preventing eviction, resolving issues with property managers, and more.

We help people apply for and resolve problems with Social Security, SSI, SSDI, TAFDC, and EAEDC.

Supporting youth with special needs in afterschool/summer programming.

We offer a variety of services, supports and programs dedicated to ensuring equitable access and success for students who have a documented risk of regression during the summer months.

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.

The City of Cambridge can help address concerns and questions about housing resources, tenants, homeowners, landlords and property management companies, and court-related information.

We are a student-run civil legal aid organization committed to providing free representation to low-income and marginalized communities in the Greater Boston area.

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.

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.

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

Housed in Cambridge: Information to Open Doors webinar recordings.

We visit moms and dads of young children at a convenient location to share information about early literacy development, talking and reading with children, and community resources.

Our Immigration Services assist individuals to process immigrant visa or becoming a permanent resident.

We connect Massachusetts nonprofits with pro bono legal assistance, education, and resources to help them strengthen their operations and support their communities.

Offers people who have Massachusetts-based criminal records (CORI) the opportunity to seal or expunge their records with free assistance from volunteer lawyers.

We offer a monthly delivery of library materials to Cambridge residents who are unable to visit a library due to short- or long-term disability or infirmity.

Our partnership fosters positive development, mental health, safe schools and communities, and limiting juvenile justice involvement through prevention, intervention and diversion services for youth.

We investigate domestic related assaults and abuse incidents and provide an advocate to help survivors obtain community services and develop safety plans.

A free program that can help Social Security beneficiaries go to work, get a good job that may lead to a career, and become financially independent.

The Consumer Councils' goal is to mediate a resolution that is acceptable to both parties however, the process is voluntary and not all businesses choose to participate, although many do.