Treatment, housing, and food near you
Search 2,600+ Ohio listings, plus Fairfield County pantries and meal sites, filtered by county and what you need. Each pantry says who it serves so you do not make a wasted trip.
For people who live here
Help you can use today, without an account.
You should not have to explain your whole situation to a website before it tells you anything useful. Everything below is free, most of it works without giving us your name, and a real person in Lancaster answers the phone.
Right now
If you need something today.
Will that raise actually cost you money?
Take the shift, or turn it down? See what more hours do to your SNAP, Medicaid, child care help, and rent before you commit. Nothing you type is saved.
Get and keep Ohio Medicaid
How to apply, how to fix it when it stalls, and what the 2027 work requirements will actually ask of you. Most people who lose coverage were eligible the whole time.
Somewhere to live, explained
How waitlists, vouchers, and local programs actually connect in Fairfield County, and what to do first instead of calling twelve numbers.
When you are ready for what is next
Training that pays off, not just a certificate.
Short cohorts where you build real things from the first week: robots, food, products, podcasts and campaigns. No experience needed, nothing to pay, and being in recovery is welcome here rather than something to explain away. The first cohort has not started and there is no date yet. If you want us to call you when there is one, the waitlist is on the training page.
What you never have to do
We are not collecting you.
Plenty of people in this county have been watched enough by systems that never forgot anything. So here is what using our tools does not require.
No account to look things up
No tracking you across the internet
Nothing you enter in the calculator is saved
Your story is never sold
Nothing is shared between agencies without your yes
If you want to help instead
Ways in, if you are the one with something to give.
Cover a need for a neighbor
Case workers post what a household needs, with no names attached. You claim the ones you can cover.
Bring your group's meetings here
Church teams, volunteer crews, neighborhood associations: a free workspace so the work stops living in one person's inbox.
Know what is happening here
The Roots Report covers county decisions, grants, and job openings in plain language, with sources cited.
Not sure where you fit?
Call and tell us what is going on. If we cannot help, we will tell you who can, and we will not put you on a list for asking.