Adult Directory 2013

University Legal Services - 220 I St, NE, Street, 130 20002
(202) 547-4747, Fax (202) 547-2083
Jane M. Brown, Director
Advocacy for disabled persons, housing placement, delinquent mortgage counseling.
Voices for a Second Chance (VSC) (new name for Visitors Services Center) - 1422
Massachusetts Ave, SE 20003
(202) 544-2131, Fax (202) 543-1572 www.vscdc.org
Paula Thompson Felder, Executive Director
Information and referral services for DC jailed detainees and their families to help
navigate their way through the DC jail and CTF experience. 24-hr phone attorney line
to relay short messages to clients within 48 hours. Assists with contacting family,
employer, attorney, etc. Will pick up property, notarize documents, pay for birth
certificates, assist with getting eye glasses into the jail, register inmates to vote, assist
with income tax returns, type letters and resumes, bedtime story audio
taping program. “Drop-in” Center daily from 9:30am to 1pm.
Walker Mill Community Development Corporation Center - 6801 Walker Mill
Road, Capital Heights, MD 20786 (301) 808-4992
Pastor Vandy Kennedy, Executive Director
Emergency food and bread distributions on Thursdays 9am to 12 noon, clothing,
AA/NA meetings and counselor, GED program (MD residents), job assistance. Mon-
Fri 9am to 4pm.
Washington Area Fuel Fund (Funds administered by Salvation Army) - Emergency
monetary assistance to pay heating bills or the purchase and installation of energy
conservation measures. Available to low-income residents in DC and all neighboring
counties served by Washington Gas. Apply at the Salvation Army office in the city or
county in which person resides. Eligibility: Income guidelines apply. In DC apply at:
1434 Harvard Street, NW 20009, (202) 332-5000 or 3101 Martin Luther King, Jr
Avenue, SE 20032, (202) 561-2000. Applications accepted January 1 - May 31 st .
Bring cut off notice from the utility that provides the primary heating source.
Washington Urban League, Inc. - 2901 14 th Street, NW 20009
(202) 265-8200, Fax (202) 265-9878 www.gwul.org
George H, Lambert, Jr, President & CEO
Community-based programs serving DC and Northern Virginia focusing on indigent,
elderly, and handicapped persons. Job skills training, job development and placement,
employment counseling (see Employment Chapter). Aging services, 55+: meals,
counseling and advocacy, transportation, nursing home ombudsman, program for
homeless elderly. Home purchase assistance program available to first time DC home
buyers.
[A] Wider Circle - 9159-C Brookville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 657-1010, Fax (301) 654-1081, (301) 608-3504 www.awidercircle.org
Mark Bergel, Executive Director, Anne Thompson, Community Coordinator
Provides furniture and other household items to families transitioning to independent
residences living without basic needs. i.e. beds, dressers, sofas, kitchen tables, clothing
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