The Open Door Ministry                              OF DOWNTOWN LANSING

Help Desk

A list of organizations providing assistance in meeting various needs

Child and Youth Services

Ele's Place

http://www.elesplace.org/

Black Child and Family Institute

http://www.bcfi.org/

Caring About Kids

http://www.caringaboutkidsinc.org/

Child and Family Services, Capital Area

http://www.childandfamily.org/

Make a Wish Foundation of Michigan

http://www.wishmich.org/

Special Olympics - Michigan area 8

http://www.somi.org/getinvolved/athletes/

Big Brothers and Big Sisters of  Greater Lansing Inc.

http://bigimpactmidmi.com/

YMCA of Metropolitan lansing

http://www.ymcaoflansing.org/

Office for Young Children

http://ingham.org/hd/oyc/

Domestic Abuse

MSU Ssafe Place

http://www.msu.edu/~safe/

End Violent Encounters (EVE)

http://www.eveinc.org/

Siren Eaton Shelter

http://www.sireneatonshelter.org/

Capital Area Parent Aide Program - St. Vincent Catholic Vharities

http://www.stvcc.org/?menu=22&page=16

Capital Area Safe Kids Coalition

http://www.sparrow.org/emergency/cask.asp

Child Abuse Prevention Services

119 Pere Marquette, Ste 3A Lansing MI 48912 -(p) 517.484.8444 ext 16

Capital Area Domestic and Sexual Violence Coordinating Council (CADSVCC)

http://www.msu.edu/~safe/services/CADSVCC.htm

Relief After Violent Encounter, Inc. (RAVE)

http://www.ravecs.org/index.htm

Advent House Ministries

http://www.adventhouse.com/index.html

Capital Area Response Effort

http://www.lansingpolice.com/site/care/care.htm

Emergency Shelter, Food, Heat and Utilities

City Rescue Mission, Lansing

http://www.lcrm.org/

Greater Lansing Food Bank - Food Movers

http://www.lansingfoodbank.org/index.php/about/

Greater Lansing Homeless Resolution Network

http://www.cacvoices.org/organizations/homeless/index_html

Habitat for Humanity

http://www.habitatmichigan.org/index.shtml

Haven House

121 Whitehills Drive East Lansing MI 48823 -(p) 517-337-2731

Help for heating bills: State of Michigan

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/bewinterwise_138994_7.htm

Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness shelter list

http://www.mihomeless.org/

Ingham County Food Bank

http://www.ingham.org/hd/foodbnk/

Loaves and Fishes

831 N. sycamore Lansing MI 48906 -(p) 517-482-2099

Greater Lansing Housing Coalition

http://www.glhc.org/

Heat and Warmth Fund

http://www.thawfund.org/index.cfm?location=1

Lifeline Telephone Assistance

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/lifelinelinkup_152143_7.pdf

Leslie Outreach

614 Mill Street Leslie MI 49251 -(p) 517-589-5814

Williamston Food Bank (Must live in williamston school district)

MI -(p) 517.655.1922

Southside Community Kitchen

MI -(p) 517.676.8144 Contact: Anna Thiel

Volunteers of America

http://www.voami.org/page.cfm/27/

Our Savior Lutheran Food Bank

1601 W. Holmes Road lansing MI -(p) 517-882-7750

Capital Area Salvation Army

http://www.usc.salvationarmy.org/lansing

Stockbridge Community Outreach (Must be a resident of the stockbridge school district)

370 Cherry St. P.O. Box 682 Stockbridge MI 49285 -(p) 517.851.7275

American Red Cross Regional Food Distribution Center

http://midmichigan.redcross.org/chapter/services-fds.html

General

Open Door Ministry of Downtown Lansing

http://www.gbgm-umc.org/opendoorlansing

Michigan Assistance and Referral Service (MARS)

http://www.mfia.state.mi.us/mars/ez_track/MARS000.asp

Capital Area Human Services Connection

1111 Michigan Ave., Suite 300 East Lansing MI 48823 -(p) 517-337-8211

In Touch - community resources

http://www.referweb.net/lansing/

To Capital Area Libraries' Social Services for Health listing

http://www.cadl.org/answers/answers/local_links_template?category=Health

Citizens for Better Care

http://cbcmi.org/

Retired and Senior Volunteers Program

6545 Mercantile Way Ste. 1 Lansing MI 48911 -(p) 517-887-6116

Department of Human Services

http://www.michigan.gov/dhs/1,1607,7-124-5461_7386_10171---,00.html

Get Picture ID Free

http://www.cristo-rey.org/Site/Welcome.html

Get Picture ID for a fee

http://www.michigan.gov/sos/

211 Referral for Assistance: shelter, food, counseling and much more

MI -(p) Dial 211 Cell phone and pay phone users: dial 866-561-2500 Hearing impaired: dial 711 for Michigan Relay

Healthcare

Medicare/Medicaid Assistance Program--MMAP (Helping seniors with healthcare issues--Physicians, prescriptions)

http://www.mymmap.org/index.php

Legal Services

Legal Services of South Central Michigan

http://www.lsscm.org/

Sixty Plus Elder Law Clinic

300 S Capitol Ave. PO Box 13038 Lansing MI 48901 -(p) 517.334.5760 or 517.334.5761

Michigan Legal Aid

http://michiganlegalaid.org/

Ingham County Access to Justice Center

313 W. Kalamazoo Street Lansing MI 48933 -(p) 517.394.3121

Legal Hotline for Michigan Seniors

http://www.elderslaw.org

MSU College of Law Clinical Programs

http://www.msulawclinics.org

People with Disabilities - Blindness

Michigan Federation for the Blind Newsline

http://www.nfbmi.org/newsline/index.php

Michigan Commission for the Blind

http://www.michigan.gov/cis/0,1607,7-154-28077_28313-14762--,00.html

Services for the blind and physically handicapped

http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_18641---,00.html

WKAR Talking Book program

http://w3b.wkar.msu.edu/radiotalkingbook/

National Federation of the Blind of michigan

http://www.nfbmi.org/

People with Disabilities - Deafness

Michigan Association for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

http://www.madhs.org/

Free relay calls for the deaf

http://www.relaycall.com/national/relay.html

People with Disabilities - General

Michigan Disability Rights Coalition

http://www.copower.org/mdrc/MDRC.htm

Tech 2000 - Michigan's Assistive Technology Program

http://www.copower.org/AT/index.htm

Spec Tran (Transportation for those with special needs)

http://www.cata.org/spectran.html

Capital Area Center for Independent Living

http://www.cacil.org/

Michigan Secretary of State disability license plates

http://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,1607,7-127-1585_1595_1629---,00.html

Michigan Rehabilitation Services

http://www.michigan.gov/mdcd/0,1607,7-122-25392---,00.html

Peckham

http://www.peckham.org/

Services for the blind and physically handicapped

http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_18641---,00.html

Michigan Commission on Disability Concerns

http://www.michigan.gov/cis/0,1607,7-154-28077_28545---,00.html

Michigan Protection and Advocacy

http://www.mpas.org/HomePage.asp

Service Organizations

Meridian Volunteer Council

http://www.meridianvolunteercouncil.org

Michigan Legal Aid

http://michiganlegalaid.org/

Capital Area United Way

http://www.capitalareaunitedway.org/

Volunteer Match

http://www.volunteermatch.org/

Salvation Army - Capital Area

http://www.usc.salvationarmy.org/lansing

Gateway Community Services

http://www.gatewayservices.org/

Highfields

http://www.mhweb.org/lansing/highfield.htm

Ingham County Veterans Affairs

http://www.ingham.org/VA/VETERANS%20AFFAIRS.htm

Refugee Services

http://www.css-svh.org/Programs/refser.htm

Capital Area Community Services - Food Programs (Home delivery)

http://www.tcoa.org/programs/nutrition_services.html

Cristo Rey Community Center

http://www.cristo-rey.org/Site/Welcome.html

Junior League of Lansing

http://www.jllansing.org/

Junior Achievement of Mid-Michigan

http://lansing.ja.org/home.html

St. Vincent Catholic Charities

http://www.stvcc.org/

Toys for Tots

http://www.toysfortots.org/

Capital Area United Way Volunteer Center

http://volunteer.united-e-way.org/cauw/volunteer/

Volunteers of America

http://www.voami.org/

Refugee Development Center

http://www.refugeedevelopmentcenter.com/contact/contact.htm

Support Groups

Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (C.H.A.D.D.)

http://www.chaddonline.org/chapters/chadd345.html

Ele's Place

http://www.elesplace.org/

Parents Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays-Lansing Chapter

http://www.geocities.com/pflaglansing/

Capital Area Down's Syndrome Association

http://www.lansingdownsyndrome.org/

Lansing Area Self  Help Meetings

http://www.mhweb.org/lansing/selfhelp_gen.htm

Sparrow Hospice Support

http://www.sparrow.org/hospice/

Mid-Michigan Self-Help Meetings

http://www.mhweb.org/midmichigan/selfhelp_gen.htm

Cancer Support Groups

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/SHR/SHR_0.asp

Lansing Area Post-Polio Support

http://www.post-polio.org

Children's Mental Health Support

http://www.bridges4kids.org/

Alano Clubs

http://www.aalansingmi.org/clubs.html

Alcoholics Anonymous

http://www.aalansingmi.org/

ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)

http://webmi.alsa.org/

Various Health and Aging Issues: Tri County Office on Aging Support Group List

http://www.tcoa.org/programs/support_groups.html

Mothers of  Preschoolers (MOPS)

http://www.mops.org/

Michigan Capital Celiac/DH Group

http://www.celiac.com/

Brain Injury Support

http://www.biami.org/documents/supportGroups.pdf

Listening Ear Support Group List

http://theear.org/referrals/show_cat.php?catid=20&PHPSESSID=c1b9a26972460f5fa140deb01fc2db6c

Various Support Groups: Women's Center of Greater Lansing

http://www.cacvoices.org/organizations/womenscenter

Lansing Area Aphasia Support

http://www.aphasia.org/aphasia_community/aphasia_community_groups.html

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