Real support for the life around your goals.

Columbus State Community College

Aspire ESOL

English-language learning for adults, with placement and orientation information.

Canton City School District

Adult Career and Technical Education

Adult career education and a separate Aspire service for high school equivalency preparation. Ask which pathway and location fit your needs.

Hamilton City Schools

Aspire

Adult academic skills and college/workplace readiness information. Confirm the current program operator, class site and registration process.

Alvis

Workforce Development / HIRE

Employment preparation and career support for people facing barriers, including justice involvement. The HIRE program helps participants build job-search skills; placement is not guaranteed.

Towards Employment

Community and Reentry

Career preparation, training and support for people with employment barriers, including criminal records. Ask about current programs, eligibility and the next intake.

Cuyahoga County Office of Reentry

Reentry Services

Coordinates community resources for people affected by the justice system, including employment, education, housing and family support referrals.

Beacon of Hope Business Alliance

Second-chance employment network

Connects job seekers facing criminal-record barriers with partner agencies in Greater Cincinnati. Begin through the agency options on its job-seeker page; confirm which services are in Ohio.

Cincinnati Works

Employment and coaching

Job-search and coaching support listed by Beacon of Hope as a starting agency for job seekers facing record-related employment barriers.

Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio

Reentry Services

Reentry services include job readiness, interview and resume support, employment assistance and connections to community resources.

Goodwill Industries of Akron

Career Services

Career services help people prepare for, find and retain employment. Ask about eligibility, job coaching, transportation training and support for your individual barriers.

Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio

Employment services

Skill-building, pre-employment and job-placement support for people with barriers to work. Do not assume a particular program accepts every background; ask about your needs during intake.

P2R Training and Resource Center

Employment and community support

Connects people facing barriers with employment assistance and community resources. Published addresses differ, so confirm the current location before traveling.

The Four-Seven

Reentry coaching and family support

Faith-based reentry coaching and family support for people affected by incarceration. Ask about current intake, community resources and participation expectations.

Reentry Coalition of Northwest Ohio

Community reentry resources

A local reentry resource connection for people returning to the community. The City of Toledo lists the coalition among its reentry resources.

Adopt America Network

Connects children waiting in foster care with permanent families and provides support before, during, and after placement.

Anne Grady Services

Provides residential and supportive care for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.

Art Tatum Zone

Supports Toledo's Junction neighborhood through cradle-to-career education, job readiness, health, and leadership opportunities.

Autism Model Community School

Provides a multidisciplinary educational environment designed around the individual needs of students on the autism spectrum.

Baby University

Equips parents for their role in child development and education while supporting a path toward self-sufficiency.

Bella Vita Network

A faith-based network collaborating with organizations to provide pregnancy-related support and resources in the community.

Bethany House

Supports survivors of domestic violence and their children through long-term transitional shelter, advocacy, safety, and resource access.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo

Provides youth-development opportunities designed to help young people reach their full potential.

Cadence Care Network

Provides family-centered behavioral and emotional health services for children and teens, along with foster-care treatment and placement support.

Camp SkyWild

Develops supported overnight camp experiences designed for neurodivergent young people.

Catholic Charities / Helping Hands of St. Louis

Provides meals, groceries, clothing, showers, and other social services for people in need.

Chicks for Charity

Mobilizes people across Northwest Ohio to give back and support local neighbors and community causes.

Children's Hunger Alliance

Supports children with nutritious meals and food education throughout the year.

Children's Theatre Workshop of Toledo

Offers inclusive theatre education where young people build creativity, teamwork, life skills, and production experience.

Christ Child Society of Toledo

Mobilizes community support and resources for children in need in the Toledo area.

Connecting Kids to Meals

Provides free nutritious meals to children in low-income and underserved areas through schools, libraries, community centers, and other youth sites.

CPC Women's Health Resource

A faith-based social-service organization providing pregnancy-related assistance, education, and health-resource connections.

Diabetes Youth Services

Connects families, educates communities, and supports children living with diabetes.

E.L. Martin Foundation for Success / SunBridge Schools

Supports educational opportunities for children in underserved areas with academic, social, character, and physical-development programming.

EmpoweredAI

Helps children and adults build technology skills, confidence, and pathways toward technology careers.

Epilepsy Center of Northwest Ohio

Supports people affected by epilepsy and developmental disabilities.

Friends of Lucas County Children Services

Supports child-safety and family-stability work connected to Lucas County Children Services and community-based services.

Girls on the Run Northwest Ohio

Uses an experience-based running curriculum to build confidence, health, and joy among girls.

Historic South Initiative

Builds partnerships and long-term strategies supporting a vibrant and thriving Old South End neighborhood.

Imagination Station

Toledo science center providing inclusive STEAM learning experiences that connect science, curiosity, and community.

International Samaritan

A faith-based international organization supporting communities experiencing severe poverty through education and other development efforts.

Jems2Jewels

Empowers girls through new experiences, positive influences, leadership development, confidence, and belonging.

Junior Achievement of Northwest Ohio

Helps students explore career possibilities and develop a clearer path toward future success before high school graduation.

Justice for Sierah

Promotes safe and supportive communities where young people can grow, learn, and thrive.

Kool Kat Science

Provides project-based STEM experiences that build discovery, collaboration, and problem-solving skills for children and families.

Love and Luggage

Supports young people transitioning from foster care with luggage, independent-living essentials, community dinners, peer connection, and life skills.

Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity

Brings people together to build homes, strengthen communities, and expand access to stable housing.

Metroparks Toledo Foundation

Supports parks, outdoor education, recreation, and conservation opportunities across the Toledo region.

Mosaic Family Zone

Mosaic Ministries of South Toledo supports community development and family connection in Toledo's Old South Side.

Mom's House of Toledo

Guides at-risk single parents toward educational goals while providing parenting tools and resources that support family self-sufficiency.

Nationwide Children's Hospital – Toledo

Provides pediatric care in northwest Ohio and collaborates on education, resources, and social-determinants-of-health support for children and families.

New Leaf Group

Connects youth and women with daily-living resources related to education, mental health, and food insecurity.

Northwest Ohio Classical Academy

Provides a classical liberal-arts and sciences education focused on academic development, character, and leadership.

Ozone House

Provides housing and holistic support for runaway, homeless, and high-risk young people and their families, including life-skills and relationship support.

Project Noelle

Supports children affected by the opioid epidemic through support groups, prevention programs, gifts, clothing, diapers, and other necessities.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Ohio

Supports children and families with comfort, care, resources, and access related to healthcare needs.

SewHope

Partners with marginalized communities in Guatemala on programs intended to reduce poverty and support sustainable communities.

Soles4Souls

A nonprofit included in the Care 4 Kids IMPACT network; its broader work connects donated shoes and clothing with people and communities in need.

St. Francis de Sales School

An all-male Catholic college-preparatory school in Toledo serving grades 7–12 with academic, spiritual, social, and physical development.

Sylvania Area Family Services

Supports Sylvania-area residents in building on their strengths and improving quality of life.

Susie's Coats for Kids and Hannah's Socks

Provides free warm apparel to children and families in need.

The Arts Commission

Strengthens the Toledo community through arts, creativity, cultural participation, and community programming.

Toledo Museum of Art

Connects people and families with art through collections, learning, and community programs.

Toledo Tomorrow

Supports high-quality education and college-and-career access for Toledo-area students, including employer and college exposure and scholarship connections.

Toledo Zoo & Aquarium

Provides conservation, education, volunteer, and community learning experiences in Northwest Ohio.

YMCA of Greater Toledo

Provides programs supporting healthy spirit, mind, and body for children, adults, and families across Greater Toledo.

Brunner Literacy Center

Free one-on-one tutoring in adult basic education, GED preparation, continuing education, and English language learning.

Clothes That Work

Workforce Education Initiative

Interactive workforce workshops focused on career readiness, advancement, and workplace professionalism.

Dayton Public Schools

Office for Exceptional Children

Special education and transition services for eligible Dayton Public Schools students.

Dayton Metro Library

Seventeen branches offering literacy, learning, career exploration, homework help, digital access, and community programming.

East End Community Services

Whole Family Coaching

Family-centered coaching that helps family members identify strengths, challenges, goals, and the supports needed to move forward.

Goodwill Easterseals Miami Valley

Employment Services

Assessment, training, placement, coaching, career counseling, and on-the-job support to help people obtain and maintain employment.

Miami Valley Career Technology Center

Career-technical education, adult workforce training, GED support, and employment preparation across medical, industrial, and other trades.

Miami Valley Urban League

CCMEP and SOAR Workforce Services

Integrated education, employment, training, and supportive services, including a specific pathway for eligible low-income youth and young adults.

Montgomery County Workforce Development

Business Solutions Center

A one-stop connection to employment, training, and services that strengthen financial stability and quality of life.

Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities Services

Coordinates services, funding, employment supports, transportation, safety, family support, residential placement, and other resources.

Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities

Statewide vocational rehabilitation and employment planning for people with physical, intellectual, sensory, and mental health disabilities.

United Rehabilitation Services of Greater Dayton

Therapy Services

Outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy supporting growth and independence.

Miami Valley Community Action Partnership

Prevention, Retention & Contingency Funds

Emergency assistance that may support shelter, utilities, relocation, transportation, training, employment, and work needs.

The Mustard Seed Foundation

A residential parenting program offering housing, supervision, family necessities, education support, and a path toward self-sufficiency.

Daybreak

Youth Shelter, Housing and Employment Services

Crisis shelter, housing, outreach, counseling, education, and paid employment preparation designed specifically for youth and young adults.

St. Vincent de Paul

Apple Street Gateway Shelter for Women & Families

Twenty-four-hour emergency shelter with meals and housing-focused case management.

YWCA Dayton

Domestic Violence Shelter

Temporary emergency shelter for people and families seeking safety from domestic violence, provided without shelter fees.

Legal Aid of Western Ohio and ABLE

Free civil legal assistance covering housing, family safety, benefits, education, employment, disability, immigration, and other basic legal needs.

Montgomery County Office of Reentry

Programs and services designed to reduce reentry barriers and support education, employment, stability, and positive community reintegration.

The Bair Foundation

Clinical Services

Home-, school-, and community-based mental health assessment, therapy, behavioral support, and crisis intervention.

NAMI Montgomery County

Peer-led support, education, and advocacy for people experiencing mental illness and those who support them.

East End Community Services

Peers for Change

Peer recovery support, case management, advocacy, treatment connections, and community education grounded in lived experience.

Eastway Behavioral Healthcare

Behavioral health services across youth and adult programs, including assessment, psychiatry, therapy, substance-use treatment, education, employment, and housing supports.

Families of Addicts

Family Support and FOA-LINK

Family-centered education, peer connection, advocacy, weekly meetings, and a support helpline for people affected by addiction.

Family Services Association

Counseling, parenting education, victim advocacy, Deaf services, and neighborhood programs responding to a wide range of family and behavioral health needs.

South Community

A broad continuum of behavioral health, primary care, school-based, youth court, family, substance-use, and employment services.

4C for Children

Free, confidential help locating quality child care, accessing essential benefits, and supporting adoptive, foster, and kinship families.

The Bair Foundation

Foster Care

Foster-family education, licensing, placement, respite, adoption support, and 24/7 assistance.

Boys & Girls Club of Dayton

After-school and summer development programs designed to help young people reach their potential.

Dakota Center

Youth Enrichment Services

After-school and summer enrichment combining homework help, mentoring, leadership, financial literacy, technology, nutrition, arts, and sports.

East End Community Services

Positive Youth Development

Remote case management and career-focused planning supporting high school graduation, real-world experience, and credentials.

Goodwill Easterseals Miami Valley

A.L.L. Club Youth Collaborative

A voluntary after-school collaborative using allyship, life skills, and leadership to help youth support one another through mental health, isolation, trauma, and substance-misuse stressors.

Montgomery County Children Services

Child protection, family strengthening, foster care, adoption, education support, and preparation for young people leaving foster care.

Montgomery County Fatherhood Initiative

Connects fathers with employment, visitation, license, child-support, reentry, and public-service resources to strengthen family involvement.

Omega Community Development Corporation

Youth Success Navigation and Planning

Relationship-based, trauma-informed navigation and success planning that coordinates schools, families, group homes, and community supports.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Ohio

The CLUB and Teen Programs

Low-cost after-school and summer programming centered on academic success, leadership, mental wellbeing, mentoring, and workforce readiness.

Ohio Department of Children and Youth

Bridges

Pairs eligible former foster youth with a liaison for housing, education, employment, wellbeing, and independent-living goals.

Center for Healthy Families

Supports young parents with education goals, healthcare access, safe housing, parenting skills, home visits, and one-to-one guidance.

Central Ohio Youth for Christ

A faith-based youth network offering mentoring, job and life skills, financial literacy, auto-repair training, support for teen parents, trafficking-survivor services, and counseling.

CHLOE, Inc.

Young Mom Connections

Provides mentoring, parenting classes, twice-monthly connection groups, childcare during activities, and access to infant and toddler essentials.

Columbus Urban League

Career Services and Youth Initiatives

Connects young people and adults to workforce readiness, career coaching, mentoring, internships, financial empowerment, and supportive community programs.

Directions for Youth & Families

Community-based prevention, counseling, education, and youth-development services delivered through multiple Columbus centers.

Disability Rights Ohio

Rise Up Transition Resources

Provides disability-rights advocacy, legal intake, and multilingual youth guidance on education, employment, benefits, safety, and adulthood.

Equitas Health

Inclusive healthcare network offering primary care, behavioral health, substance-use treatment, dentistry, pharmacy, testing, prevention, and care navigation.

Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services

Youth and Workforce Programs

Combines tutoring, paid work training, wraparound coaching, scholarships, summer programs, adult job placement, English learning, and family supports.

FACCES

Life Ready and Family Programs

Offers youth gardening, career exposure, after-school learning, free meals, family health access, fitness, cooking, and community support.

Lutheran Social Services

211 Central Ohio

A free information and referral network connecting residents to food, shelter, healthcare, domestic-violence support, and other community services.

Mobile Response and Stabilization Services

Franklin County Youth Crisis Response

Dispatches a licensed mental-health clinician to the young person's location and can provide follow-up stabilization support for up to six weeks.

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Autism Adolescent Transition Program

Helps young people with autism plan for adulthood through counseling, behavior consultation, employment preparation, social groups, and coordinated transition supports.

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Teen Clinic

Provides preventive, medical, gynecological, and psychological care for teens and young adults.

Star House

24/7 Youth Drop-In Center and Carol Stewart Village

Central Ohio's low-barrier, trauma-informed drop-in center connects young people to immediate essentials, clinical support, education, employment, housing, and long-term stability.

Huckleberry House

Teen Crisis, Housing, Counseling and Outreach

Provides a 24/7 teen crisis shelter, transitional apartments, counseling, outreach, case management, and independent-living support.

Franklin County YouthBuild

Combines education completion with paid hands-on training in construction and healthcare career pathways.

IMPACT Community Action

Achieve More & Prosper (A.M.P.)

A workforce and mentoring program providing career credentials, coaching, job placement, education access, and practical support for barriers.

Goodwill Columbus

Achieve More & Prosper (A.M.P.)

Pairs young adults with a personal career coach for career planning, life skills, job-ready training, internships, job shadowing, and on-the-job experience.

Community Refugee & Immigration Services

Community Connectors Youth Mentorship

Mentors New American students through high-school completion, postsecondary planning, career preparation, internships, and social connection in Columbus.

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Youth & Young Adult Employment Program

Paid summer work-learning experiences help students build professional skills and gain hands-on experience across hospital departments.

Jobs for Ohio's Graduates

Connects in-school and out-of-school youth to education assistance, student re-engagement, life skills, work experience, mentoring, and career pathways.

Youth Opportunities Unlimited

Northeast Ohio Youth Workforce Programs

Cleveland-based workforce organization preparing young people for careers through summer jobs, internships, school programs, credentials, and career coaching.

Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services

Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program

Integrates employment, training, career planning, and case-management support for eligible young people.

Pathway, Inc.

Summer Youth Employment Program

An eight-week paid summer program combining work-readiness training with full-time, hands-on employment experience.

Harbor

Lucas County CCMEP

Helps eligible young people build education and career pathways through individualized resources, coaching, and workforce support.

Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority

YouthBuild Trumbull County

An earn-while-you-learn pathway combining diploma or GED completion, job skills, leadership, and community service renovating affordable housing.

OhioMeansJobs Mahoning County

The county workforce center connects job seekers to career counseling, training, employer opportunities, supportive services, and youth employment pathways.

OhioMeansJobs Summit County

Youth and Young Adult Workforce Services

Connects young people to summer jobs, career coaching, training, education completion, credentials, and supportive services.

OhioMeansJobs Stark County

Young Adult Services

Offers work experiences, career coaching, college preparation, mentoring, diploma help, and practical supports needed to enter training or employment.

Mental Health Services for Clark and Madison Counties

Transition-Age Youth Services

Youth-focused behavioral health and transition support helps participants manage mental wellness, develop life skills, and prepare for adulthood.

UMCH Family Services

Independent Living

Provides scattered-site housing plus education, employment, mental-wellness, and independent-living supports in Springfield, Dayton, and Cincinnati.

City of Lima

GenNext Youth Employment Program

A seasonal employment initiative combining required pre-employment training with hands-on work experience at local businesses and organizations.

OhioMeansJobs Lorain County

Youth Workforce Services

A one-stop workforce center offering career guidance, education and training referrals, job-search tools, employer connections, and youth services.

OhioMeansJobs Ashland County

Provides a free public resource room, employment and re-employment assistance, job training connections, and family-support referrals.

Coshocton County Job and Family Services

Workforce Development and Youth Employment

Offers no-cost employment workshops, youth employment and training, computer basics, interview preparation, resumes, and workforce guidance.

Lancaster Fairfield Community Action Agency

Housing Assistance & Supports for Youth

Provides direct assistance and referrals for immediate needs, housing stability, health, education, employment, and community connections.

Columbiana County Job and Family Services

Connects county residents to public assistance, child and family services, employment support, healthcare coverage, and community resources.

Hamilton County Job and Family Services

Youth Employment Program

Provides jobs and year-round job-readiness training to help young people build experience, confidence, and career direction.

Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio

WIOA Out-of-School Youth

Supports out-of-school youth with education completion, occupational training, paid work experience, career coaching, and barrier reduction.