Rise from here.
Free, verified help for the first days after prison, foster care, treatment, a shelter, or an abuser. Pick your situation. Get the map.
Which one is you?
Each program has its own verified directory and a step-by-step checklist for the first 72 hours, 30 days, and 90 days.
Leaving incarcerationReentry
ID, a bed tonight, parole check-in, benefits, and employers who hire with a record. The first 72 hours, in order.
Start hereAging out at 18Foster Care
Housing, school, health coverage, money, and adults who stay. Everything the system stops providing the day you turn 18.
Start hereLeaving treatmentRecovery
Sober housing, meetings, medication, work, and a plan for day 30, when the structure ends and the real test starts.
Start hereLeaving homelessness · RefugeesHousing
Shelter tonight, a lease next. Rapid rehousing, vouchers, resettlement agencies, and the paperwork that unlocks them.
Start hereLeaving domestic violenceSafe Haven
Confidential shelter, protective orders, legal aid, and support for your kids. Private browsing tips on every page.
Start hereLeaving traffickingSurvivors
Safe housing, legal status, counseling, income, and privacy. Vetted providers who understand what you've been through.
Start hereThe first 72 hours, in order.
The same four things matter no matter which door you walked out of. We list the office, the hours, and what to bring.
Get your ID
Birth certificate, then Social Security card, then state ID. In that order, or the later ones fail.
Find a bed
Tonight's shelter, sober house, or transitional bed with open-bed status and intake rules.
Turn on benefits
SNAP, Medicaid, a free phone, a bus pass. Most take one visit if you bring the right paper.
Earn
Second-chance employers, day labor, and trade programs that start this month, not next year.
Call or text a person.
Say where you are and what you need. We'll text you the three places to go, with addresses and hours. No app, no account, 24 hours a day.
Run a shelter, clinic, or program?
Claim your listing, keep your hours and intake rules current, and show up for the people who need you most. Free for every nonprofit and public agency.