This guide is intended to help find free or low-cost resources for expectant women and families and other vulnerable individuals in the New York City metro area and Northern New Jersey.
Crisis Call Center 800-273-8255/ OR Text ANSWER to 839863
The Trevor Project 866-488-7386
UNPLANNED PREGNANCY HELP
Options Counseling and Adoption Services Call: 800-321-5683 Text: 646-306-2586
New York City Resources
PARENTING SUPPORT
Healthy Baby and Me
The Suffolk County Department of Health Service:
Maternal and Infant Community Health Collaborative is a NYSDOH grant funded project designed to improve the health of women ages 12-44 and their families.
Services: Baby items, child care, employment services, food pantries, education, health insurance, housing assistance legal services, parenting, pregnancy testing
Available in Suffolk County
Newborn Home Visiting Program
Through the Newborn Home Visiting Program, health workers will visit your home and can help you with breastfeeding, health information, and safety tips.
Services: Parenting support, baby supplies
Available in the South Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem
DWDC: Healthy Families Program
This program provides home visiting services about parenting, child development, health care and local community resources by trained family support workers.
Services: Parenting support, childcare
Available in Manhattan
HOUSING ASSISTANCE
Coalition for the Homeless
The Coalition for the Homeless is the nation’s oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.
Services: Temporary housing assistance
Available in Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island
PATH
State-of-the-art and eco-friendly facility that has been specifically sized, staffed, and laid out to meet the demand for homeless services.
Services: Temporary housing assistance
Available in Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan
Good Counsel Homes
Good Counsel is a nationally recognized nonprofit leader and innovator in creating supportive residential care and community-based services for homeless, expectant, and new mothers and their children in the context of the Catholic social tradition.
Services: Temporary housing assistance
Available in Bronx, Staten Island, Hudson Valley, Westchester
BENEFITS/WIC
WIC Program: The Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
Available in Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester, Long Island, Manhattan
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Helps people with limited income buy food.
Services: Food assistance
Available in Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Westchester, Manhattan, Staten Island
PRENATAL / ABORTION / PREGNANCY CONFIRMATION
CHOICES Women’s Medical Center
Choices Women’s Medical Center is a woman-owned and operated medical facility serving women in New York City and surrounding areas for over 47 years.
Services: Prenatal care, abortion services, GYN
Available in Queens (Services all NYC metro area)
Planned Parenthood
Services: birth control, abortion services,
Available in Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Long Island, Hudson Valley, Westchester, Northern New Jersey
Avail
Avail provides free, self-administered pregnancy tests (hCG urine test), which can detect pregnancy hormones ten days after conception and provide results within three to five minutes.
Services: free pregnancy tests, free ultrasound exams, male advocates, parenting support, emotional support
Available in Manhattan (serves NYC Metro area)
FOOD PANTRIES / FOOD BANKS
Food Bank for New York City
The city’s largest hunger-relief organization.
For NYC employs a multifaceted approach centered on helping low-income New Yorkers overcome their circumstances and achieve greater independence.
The Office coordinates child care services with a focus on availability, affordability and quality of child care.
Parents are assisted with counseling on choosing childcare, referrals to child care providers, and child care subsidies.
Services: Child care
Available in Bergen County
4Cs of Passaic County
Assists families to obtain excellent quality child care that is available, accessible, and affordable.” We are a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, child care resource and referral organization that administers one of the largest child care financial assistance program in the State of New Jersey.”
Services: Child care
Available in Northern New Jersey
BABY SUPPLIES
North Porch Women and Infants Centers
North Porch will provide diapers, formula, baby food,wipes and toiletry items.
Services: Formula, diapers, wipes
Available in Newark, Paterson, Dover, Hackettstown, Morristown, and Jersey City
Madonna House Inc.
Madonna House is dedicated to serve infants, children and women by providing clothing, juvenile furnishings, toys, infant formula, diapers, small household items and other life necessities to impoverished and needy families
Services: Clothing, toys, formula, and diapers
Available in Neptune, NJ
HOUSING ASSISTANCE
Alternatives, Inc.
Alternatives, Inc. provides comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
Available in Warren, Morris, Hunterdon, Somerset, Union, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean New Jersey
Little Flower Home
Little Flower Home provides comfortable private room(s) in shared apartments or shared homes for pregnant women and their children at no cost for women that are in need, or under undue pressure.
Services: Temporary housing, baby supplies
Available in East Orange, Edison, Elizabeth, Hoboken, Morristown, Paterson, Somerset
Covenant House New Jersey
Supportive Housing programs are designed to help ease their transition from homelessness to independence, setting them up for success — and breaking the cycle of homelessness — when they move out on their own.
Services: Temporary housing, career development, counseling, medical services
Available in Newark, Atlantic City
BENEFITS/WIC
New Jersey WIC Program
The WIC Program is a federally funded Nutrition Program for pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants and children up to 5 years who meet Federal Income Standards (185% income guidelines) and are at nutritional risk.