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.
Free one-on-one tutoring in adult basic education, GED preparation, continuing education, and English language learning.
Special education and transition services for eligible Dayton Public Schools students.
Seventeen branches offering literacy, learning, career exploration, homework help, digital access, and community programming.
Family-centered coaching that helps family members identify strengths, challenges, goals, and the supports needed to move forward.
Assessment, training, placement, coaching, career counseling, and on-the-job support to help people obtain and maintain employment.
Integrated education, employment, training, and supportive services, including a specific pathway for eligible low-income youth and young adults.
A one-stop connection to employment, training, and services that strengthen financial stability and quality of life.
Coordinates services, funding, employment supports, transportation, safety, family support, residential placement, and other resources.
Outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy supporting growth and independence.
A residential parenting program offering housing, supervision, family necessities, education support, and a path toward self-sufficiency.
Crisis shelter, housing, outreach, counseling, education, and paid employment preparation designed specifically for youth and young adults.
Twenty-four-hour emergency shelter with meals and housing-focused case management.
Temporary emergency shelter for people and families seeking safety from domestic violence, provided without shelter fees.
Free civil legal assistance covering housing, family safety, benefits, education, employment, disability, immigration, and other basic legal needs.
Programs and services designed to reduce reentry barriers and support education, employment, stability, and positive community reintegration.
Peer-led support, education, and advocacy for people experiencing mental illness and those who support them.
Peer recovery support, case management, advocacy, treatment connections, and community education grounded in lived experience.
Behavioral health services across youth and adult programs, including assessment, psychiatry, therapy, substance-use treatment, education, employment, and housing supports.
Family-centered education, peer connection, advocacy, weekly meetings, and a support helpline for people affected by addiction.
Counseling, parenting education, victim advocacy, Deaf services, and neighborhood programs responding to a wide range of family and behavioral health needs.
A broad continuum of behavioral health, primary care, school-based, youth court, family, substance-use, and employment services.
Free, confidential help locating quality child care, accessing essential benefits, and supporting adoptive, foster, and kinship families.
After-school and summer development programs designed to help young people reach their potential.
After-school and summer enrichment combining homework help, mentoring, leadership, financial literacy, technology, nutrition, arts, and sports.
Remote case management and career-focused planning supporting high school graduation, real-world experience, and credentials.
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.
Child protection, family strengthening, foster care, adoption, education support, and preparation for young people leaving foster care.
Connects fathers with employment, visitation, license, child-support, reentry, and public-service resources to strengthen family involvement.
Relationship-based, trauma-informed navigation and success planning that coordinates schools, families, group homes, and community supports.
Provides scattered-site housing plus education, employment, mental-wellness, and independent-living supports in Springfield, Dayton, and Cincinnati.
Connect with local food, housing, health, transportation, and family support. Columbus residents can also call 614-221-2255.
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