Financial support: developmental disabilities

Stark County Job & Family Services supports the community by protecting, stabilizing, and strengthening individuals and families. Report child abuse: 330-455-KIDS / 1-800-233-5437

• Cash assistance
• Food assistance
• Medicaid & Medical
• Non-emergency transportation - Transportation to and from Medicaid-qualified appointments, including doctor visits, dental visits, vision appointments and more.
• Child care services
• Work experience program - Program participants are matched with local businesses and organizations in exchange for public assistance benefits.
• Subsidized Employment Program (SEP) - Supports local employers by offsetting the costs of hiring and training new employees.
• Foster care & adoption
• Kinship care
• Child support services
• Project KARE
• Healthy Start - Medicaid-funded program providing basic medical coverage for pregnant women and children up to 19 years old.
• PRC Plan - providing short-term assistance to address an emergent need and help families retain and maintain employment.

Provides transitional housing for women, a clothing boutique, employment and transportation assistance, youth programs, and Meals on Wheels for the senior community. We improve Alliance area women’s lives, stand up for justice, and strengthen communities with a focus on three impact areas: equipping youth, economic stability and advancement and senior nutrition and health.

• Transitional Housing Employed women live in safe, low-cost transitional housing and get connected to resources and support services.
• Fashion Boutique Stocked with casual and professional attire and shoes for both women and men, as well as jewelry and accessories, all at very affordable prices – nothing more than $5. Located at the Alliance Commons - 405 S. Linden Avenue, Alliance, OH, 44601 (Door 1)
• Meals on Wheels Contact our Meals on Wheels Coordinator, Tierney Allen, at (330) 823-1840 (ext. 102) with any questions and/or to sign up.

Offers comprehensive, whole person treatment to children, adults and families in the communities we serve – regardless of their ability to pay. Delivers mental health, substance use, residential, and rehabilitation services Walk-in Clinic: Mon- Fri 8am – 2pm Clinical Services Recovery includes behavioral health, counseling, case management, substance use treatment, walk-in services, psychiatry, and crisis intervention and stabilization Residential Services Housing assistance, group housing, youth transitional services, budget management classes and other programs that help prepare clients for independent living Supportive Services Guardianship and family care, jail liaison support, adult protective services, adult day care services and eldercare case management Employment Services Job matching, assistance with interviewing, securing transportation and more

Northeastern Ohio’s premier workforce development and training centers that connects job seekers with employers by providing numerous resources in a single location Serving Stark County employers and job seekers with access to all community partner programs, education, training, counseling and employment opportunities.  

Start a search for waiver-funded service providers offering transportation, housing, day services and more.

Located in downtown Canton, the Campus is home to Goodwill offices and 20+ other non-profit organizations that share collaborative outreach to the community and find efficiencies through shared space and services. Goodwill is a nonprofit, social service agency dedicated to improving the lives of all people by providing skill-building programs and services needed to help remove common barriers to good jobs and independence. Partners at the Goodwill Ken Weber Community Campus include:

• Access Health Stark County
• Alzheimer’s Association
• AmeriCorps Seniors
• Axess Family – Family Community SSVF
• Canton Ex-Newsboys Association
• Chasing Hope House
• Ekaza-Bridging the Gap
• Guardian Support Services
• Hannah's House 119
• Junior Achievement
• Latino Business League
• Lifecare Community Health Center
• The Greater Canton Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission
• NAACP
• Project Hope
• The American Red Cross
• Stark County Hunger Task Force
• Stark A11y
• Stark County Social Justice Consortium
• Stark Housing Network
• Triad Deaf Services, Inc.
• Vantage Aging