Explore organizations that directly serve teenagers, transition-age youth, adults, parents, and families—from finishing school and finding work to housing, mental health, disability support, and family stability.
Information is adapted from community resource guides, including the 2026 Montgomery County Community Resource Guide and CAP4Kids Columbus, for discovery purposes. Ready Set Onward does not guarantee availability, eligibility, or service quality. Contact the provider directly to confirm current details.
English-language learning for adults, with placement and orientation information.
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.
Statewide vocational rehabilitation and employment planning for people with physical, intellectual, sensory, and mental health disabilities.
Low-cost after-school and summer programming centered on academic success, leadership, mental wellbeing, mentoring, and workforce readiness.
Pairs eligible former foster youth with a liaison for housing, education, employment, wellbeing, and independent-living goals.
Supports young parents with education goals, healthcare access, safe housing, parenting skills, home visits, and one-to-one guidance.
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.
Provides mentoring, parenting classes, twice-monthly connection groups, childcare during activities, and access to infant and toddler essentials.
Connects young people and adults to workforce readiness, career coaching, mentoring, internships, financial empowerment, and supportive community programs.
Community-based prevention, counseling, education, and youth-development services delivered through multiple Columbus centers.
Provides disability-rights advocacy, legal intake, and multilingual youth guidance on education, employment, benefits, safety, and adulthood.
Inclusive healthcare network offering primary care, behavioral health, substance-use treatment, dentistry, pharmacy, testing, prevention, and care navigation.
Combines tutoring, paid work training, wraparound coaching, scholarships, summer programs, adult job placement, English learning, and family supports.
Offers youth gardening, career exposure, after-school learning, free meals, family health access, fitness, cooking, and community support.
A free information and referral network connecting residents to food, shelter, healthcare, domestic-violence support, and other community services.
Dispatches a licensed mental-health clinician to the young person's location and can provide follow-up stabilization support for up to six weeks.
Helps young people with autism plan for adulthood through counseling, behavior consultation, employment preparation, social groups, and coordinated transition supports.
Provides preventive, medical, gynecological, and psychological care for teens and young adults.
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.
Provides a 24/7 teen crisis shelter, transitional apartments, counseling, outreach, case management, and independent-living support.
Combines education completion with paid hands-on training in construction and healthcare career pathways.
A workforce and mentoring program providing career credentials, coaching, job placement, education access, and practical support for barriers.
Pairs young adults with a personal career coach for career planning, life skills, job-ready training, internships, job shadowing, and on-the-job experience.
Mentors New American students through high-school completion, postsecondary planning, career preparation, internships, and social connection in Columbus.
Paid summer work-learning experiences help students build professional skills and gain hands-on experience across hospital departments.
Connect with local food, housing, health, transportation, and family support. Columbus residents can also call 614-221-2255.
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