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Resources for Seniors

• Montgomery County’s Aging and Disability Resource Unit:
  • Call (240) 777-3000 to learn about services for seniors, and to receive assistance to apply for services. 
• County’s COVID website for resources for seniors:
  • Information about how to receive check-in phone calls, how to receive frozen meals weekly, mental health services, taxi service, and more. 
• COVID Resource List for Montgomery County Older Adults :
  • ​ Guide on where to find food, transportation, mental well-being, caregivers, how to stay information on how to stay informed, active, connected, and engaged.  
• Montgomery County Senior Site:
  • Provides a comprehensive list of resources about employment, health, recreation, safety, senior housing, caregiving support, tax and finance, transportation, volunteering. 
• Montgomery County Seniors’ Resource Guide: 2021
• JCA Senior Helpline :  
  • (240) 290-3311; SeniorHelpLine@accessjca.org
  • Provides assistance identifying resources for seniors, such as housing, home care, recreation and more. 
• Senior Care Assistance / Subsidy Program:
  • (240) 777-3000. A program to help with the cost of Adult Day Care, medications, personal care, transportation for medical appointments, home delivered meals, medications, medical insurance co-payments, durable and disposable medical supplies, eyeglasses, dentures, medical and dental care not covered by insurance, a lifeline system, or other possible need not covered by other resources. 
• Maryland Senior Legal Helpline:
  • (866) 635-2948. Free telephone hotline for people living in Maryland, aged 60 years or older. Attorneys who staff the helpline provide brief legal advice to callers or give callers a referral to another legal resource or an appropriate public or private agency.  
• Senior Connection :
  • 301-962-0820: Provides transportation to medical appointments, social gatherings, and more. Provides assistance to get groceries, food boxes. 
• ElderSafe:
  • (301) 816-5099: Help line (Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm).  
  • Provides safe temporary shelter. 
• Senior Planet  : 
  • (240) 753-0676. Offers tech and other support to seniors, including online classes in  English  and  Spanish  that teach seniors how to use online tools and other topics. 
• Community Reach of Montgomery County: Senior Reach Program
  • ​Programs for City of Rockville residents
  • Homecare Senior Services: 240-314-8816 (English) or 240-314-8817 (Spanish)
  • Safe and Secure Services: 240-314-8819

Resources for Youth

Montgomery County Public School

• MCPS Enrollment:
  • For Pre-K/Head Start, see below.  International students, see number below for International office.  All others, call assigned school directly.
• Montgomery County Public Schools International Office:  ( 240) 740-4500
  • Helps to facilitate student enrollment for newly arrived families and can guide them in enrollment & gathering the necessary documents.  
• MCPS Prekindergarten/Head Start:  (240) 740-4530
  • Program serves low-income families with children who will be four years old by September; in Germantown, Rockville and Takoma Park have limited spaces for children who will be three years old.  This includes children with disabilities.  
• Infant Toddler Program :   (240) 777-3997
  • ​ For children between the ages of birth to 34 ½ months old and when there are concerns about child development. To apply call or visit: https://referral.mditp.org/
• MCPS Child Care & Distance Learning  Support for Children in Need

Children's Needs

• Clothing, Diapers: Visit the Clothing/Diapers section of our website for details.
• Women, Infant, and Children (WIC):
  • Call Community Clinics, Inc. (CCI) to apply: (301) 762-9426. Provides healthy foods, nutrition counseling and breastfeeding support to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children under age five.  Immigration status not required.  
• Judy Center:  (410) 767-6546.
  • Offers childcare assistance, parenting classes, case management, play groups. 
• ChildLink : ( 240) 777-4769.
  • Information and referral for families with young children, consultations on child development or parenting issues, or situations which require early intervention services.

Childcare Subsidies

• Working Parents Assistance Program:   (240) 777-1177
  • ​This program can assist eligible families by contributing to the cost of childcare through the County funded Working Parents Assistance Program. 
• Maryland Child Care Scholarship Program  (formerly known as Child Care Subsidy)
  • (877) 227-0125. Provides financial assistance with childcare costs to eligible working families in Maryland. 

 Assistance Locating Childcare

• Locate Child Care: (877) 261-0060
  • Free, personalized resource and referral counseling service designed to help parents choose a quality child care program that meets their needs.  
• Montgomery County Child Care Resource Center: (240) 777-3110

 Youth Programs from local nonprofit agencies

• Identity:
  • Serves Latino in-school and out-of-school youth and their families.  
• Latin American Youth Center
  • Provides opportunities in academics, arts and recreation, job readiness, safe places to live, and health and wellness.
• Future Link:
  • For young adults ages 18-25: mentoring, tutoring, internships, career exploration
• Community Bridges:
  • After- and out-of-school Girls Program, grades 4 through 12.
• Asian American Lead:
  • After-school programs for Asian American youth at Parkland, Julius West, and Newport Mill Elementary Schools, and Blair, Einstein, and Wheaton High Schools.
• Liberty's Promise:
  • After-school programs for immigrant youth at Blair, Northwood, Kennedy, Springbrook, Wheaton, Gaithersburg, and Quince Orchard High Schools. Summer internships.
• Crittenton Services:
  • Leadership, empowerment, life skills programs in school for teen girls.
• College Tracks:
  • College readiness programs at BCC, Paint Branch, Quince Orchard, Watkins Mill, and Wheaton High Schools. 
• Generation Hope:
  • Provides support to teen parents in college.
• Family Solutions:
  • Mentoring and leadership programs for youth and families
• Worksource Montgomery:
  • ​ Young Adult Opportunity Program (YAOP) provides career coaching and counseling, and job readiness training.
• Catholic Charities:​ Group circles for Latino youth to discuss challenges, goal setting, develop leadership.