Start here — one call routes everything
Dial 211 — the master key
Free, confidential, 24 hours a day, in your own language. Local specialists who know the food, shelter, housing, reentry, and health help in your town. Text your ZIP code to 898211. If 211 won't dial through: 1-844-872-4681.
📞 Call 211findhelp.org — search it all by ZIP
One search covers food pantries, shelters, housing, jobs, health care, and reentry programs in your ZIP code.
Search findhelp.org →🍞 Food
National Hunger Hotline
Run for the USDA by Hunger Free America. Meal sites, food banks, and services near your address. Mon–Fri, 8 AM–8 PM Eastern. Spanish: 1-877-8-HAMBRE (1-877-842-6273). After hours, text food + your ZIP to 914-342-7744.
📞 1-866-3-HUNGRYFind your local food bank
Feeding America covers every state — 200+ food banks, 60,000+ pantries. ZIP in, the right pantry out. Ask about mobile pantries if you have no ride, and pick two or three places — pantries run out.
Find food by ZIP →SNAP food-benefit questions: 1-800-221-5689. Always call a pantry before you go — hours change and food runs out.
🏠 Shelter & housing
HUD Find Shelter
The federal tool: shelters, food, clothing, and health clinics near you, mapped by city or ZIP.
Find shelter →Special doors
Fleeing violence: National Domestic Violence Hotline —
1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.
Veterans: National Call Center for Homeless Veterans —
1-877-424-3838, 24/7.
Youth on your own: National Runaway Safeline —
1-800-786-2929.
Veterans in crisis: dial 988, then press 1 —
the Veterans Crisis Line, 24/7.
🕊️ Recovery — addiction & mental health
SAMHSA National Helpline
Free, confidential, 24/7, every day of the year — treatment referrals and information for substance use and mental health, English and Spanish. TTY: 1-800-487-4889. Or text your ZIP code to 435748 (HELP4U).
📞 1-800-662-HELPNeed to talk right now?
Call or text 988 any hour. Or text HOME to 741741 (Crisis Text Line) to reach a live counselor by text.
📞 Call 988Still Standing was built by survivors, for survivors. Recovery is one of our arms — you are not the first to walk this road, and you don't walk it alone.
💡 Bills, lights & basics
Keep the lights and heat on
Utility help exists in nearly every county — energy assistance (LIHEAP), Salvation Army and church benevolence funds, and payment plans you have to ask for before shutoff, not after. Dial 211 and say "utility assistance" — they know who still has funds this month, because these pots open and close fast.
📞 Call 211Clothing, furniture & household
Search findhelp.org by ZIP for clothing closets, furniture banks, and thrift help near you — and HUD's shelter tool lists clothing alongside shelter and food.
Search findhelp.org →👶 Families & children
Moms, babies & little ones
WIC feeds pregnant moms, new mothers, and children under 5 — dial 211 and ask for WIC in your county. Diaper banks give free diapers through the National Diaper Bank Network.
Find diapers →No ride?
Say so when you call. Many pantries run mobile stops or can arrange delivery for shut-ins, and 211 knows which rides and bus programs run in your town. Don't let a ride be the reason you go without — ask.
📞 Call 211🔓 Coming home — prison & reentry
Coming home is hard enough without a map. Start with 211 and findhelp.org and ask for reentry services in your county — IDs, housing, jobs, and programs that work with people coming home — and ask about ID help: replacing a birth certificate, Social Security card, or state ID is the first lock reentry programs can open, because nothing else moves without one. Still Standing knows this road first-hand: our founder came home and stood back up, and our survivor and reentry work exists so the next man or woman doesn't have to figure it out alone. Central voice: (251) 348-3677.
📖 Carrying a record — including the registry
If you're coming home with a record — and especially if you're on the sex-offense registry — you already know how heavy most doors get. These doors are built for you. Every organization below was checked at its own website on Oct 29, 2026. And if none of them fits, call us at (251) 348-3677 — the promise at the top of this page stands: we keep looking until you're connected.
Once Fallen — the survival desk
The longest-running resource site for people on the registry (since 2007): a housing list for every state, a free survival guide ("Your Life on the List"), and a real person who answers questions by phone, text, and email. Start here for housing anywhere in America — its lists include Alabama leads, too.
OnceFallen.com → Housing list A–M → Housing list N–Z →Restoration Destination — housing that takes registrants (Florida)
A faith-based reentry community in Pahokee, Florida (formerly Miracle Village) built for returning citizens — and it says plainly that it specializes in people coming home as registered sex offenders. Rental housing, month to month, no security deposit. Screening applies. (561) 924-5556.
Restoration Destination →NARSOL — know your state, find your people
The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws: affiliates in most states, a resources library, and support connections for registrants and families. It's advocacy, not a pantry — but it knows who in your state actually helps. 888-997-7765.
NARSOL.org →Women Against Registry — for you and your family
A nationwide nonprofit of registrants and their families, running a volunteer support hotline. If your wife, mother, or kids are carrying this with you, this door is for them too.
WomenAgainstRegistry.org →In your state: Florida — Florida Action Committee (support groups, housing leads, (833) 273-7325). California — ACSOL (legal help and registrant meetings). Texas — Texas Voices ((210) 414-5701). Illinois — Illinois Voices. Everywhere else, Once Fallen's housing lists and NARSOL's state affiliates are the map.
Food benefits: being on the registry does not by itself take SNAP off the table. Federal rules only disqualify people convicted of certain serious offenses who are not in compliance with their sentence — if you are in compliance, or you're done, apply like anybody else (1-800-221-5689). And tell 211 about your status up front — a good specialist will match you to doors that are open to you the first time, not send you to one that isn't.
🏥 Health — clinics & hospitals
Find a health center
Federally funded community health centers must see you whether or not you can pay — fees slide to your income and family size. Medical, dental, and mental-health care. Search by ZIP at HRSA's finder.
Find a health center →In a hospital bed?
Hope in the Halls is Still Standing's institutional arm — bringing hope, media, and support to patients and families in hospitals and care facilities. Ask your care team, or reach us at (251) 348-3677.
Near Irvington & Mobile, Alabama?
Our home ground — call first, because days and food supply change:
- Feeding the Gulf Coast — (251) 653-1617 — the regional food bank
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church, Bayou La Batre — (251) 229-8660 — by appointment
- Helping Hands — (251) 216-6615 — emergency food, by appointment
- First Baptist Church of Grand Bay — (251) 865-4734 — Tuesdays, 10 AM–12 PM
- First United Methodist Church of Theodore — (251) 644-2571 — Tuesdays, 12 PM–2 PM
- Bayou Recovery Project, Bayou La Batre — (251) 776-0468 — 2nd Monday, 10 AM–2 PM
- Dwell Mobile, Mobile — (251) 487-9766 — 3rd Saturday pantry, 9:30 AM, 2496 Government Blvd
- Infinite Opportunities, Theodore — (251) 662-9812 — 3rd Saturday, 10 AM–12 PM, and by appointment
This local list is audited weekly — last audited Oct 25, 2026. If a number ever fails you, tell us and we'll make it right.
One more thing
Nobody here is going to preach at you before you eat, sleep safe, or get well. The help comes first, no strings. But if you're standing in a dark place and you want somebody to point you toward the light — that's the whole reason Still Standing exists. We believe God leaves nobody where He found them. Whenever you're ready, the door is open.
Built out of love for all things and everyone and everything — as my mother would always say.
— James Albert Bosarge Jr., Still Standing Enterprises P & P
Central voice: (251) 348-3677