National Organizations/Non-Profits/Associations

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AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families
T: 1-888-917-AIDS
www.aids-alliance.org

AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families is a national organization focusing on the needs of children, youth, and families living with, affected by, or at risk for HIV and AIDS.

Child Welfare League of America, Housing and Homeless Initiative (CWLA)
T: 202-638-2952
www.cwla.org/programs/housing/

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is an association of almost 1,200 public and private non-profit agencies that assist over 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a wide range of services, including services for persons who are homeless.

Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
T: 212-986-2966 ext. 500
www.csh.org

Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) supports the expansion of permanent housing opportunities linked to comprehensive services for persons who face persistent: mental health; substance abuse; and other chronic health challenges, and are at risk of homelessness, so that they are able to live with: stability; autonomy; and dignity and reach for their full potential.

Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Information Resource Center
T: 1-888-439-3300
www.bphc.hrsa.gov/hchirc/

The Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Information Resource Center provides an overview of homelessness, a description of HCH response to the problem, and tools that have been used in various HCH programs.

Insure Kids Now!
T: 1-877-KIDS-NOW
www.insurekidsnow.gov

Insure Kids Now! is a national campaign to link the nation's 10 million uninsured children - from birth to age 18 - to free and low-cost health insurance. Many families simply don't know their children are eligible. Insure Kids Now! is sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency that assures access to health care.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
T: NAMI HelpLine: 1-800-950-NAMI
www.nami.org

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a non-profit, grassroots, self-help, support, and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders.

National Alliance to End Homelessness
T: 202-638-1526
www.naeh.org

The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a non-profit organization whose mission is to mobilize the non-profit, public, and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness.

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
T: 301-347-0400
www.nachc.com

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) is the national trade association serving and representing the interests of America's community health centers including the community, migrant, and homeless health centers that are not-for-profit providers of health care to America's poor and medically underserved.

National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH)
T: 202-737-6444
www.nationalhomeless.org

The mission of the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) is to end homelessness. Toward this end, NCH engages in public education, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing. We focus our work in the following four areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights.

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV)
T: 1-800-VET-HELP
www.nchv.org

Founded in 1990 by a group of community-based homeless veteran service providers, the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) seeks to eliminate homelessness in the veteran community.

National Health Care for the Homeless Council
T: 615-226-2292
www.nhchc.org
www.nhchc.org/Publications/links.htm (additional resources)

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the HCH Clinicians' Network involve homeless service providers and their clients in political action to reduce poverty and to prevent and end homelessness.

National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
T: 202-638-2535
www.nlchp.org

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty works to alleviate, ameliorate, and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.

National Mental Health Association (NMHA)
T: 703-684-7722
www.nmha.org

The National Mental Health Association (NMHA) is the country's oldest and largest non-profit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. It works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million people with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research, and service.

National Resource Center of Homelessness and Mental Illness
T: 1-800-444-7415
www.nrchmi.samhsa.gov

The National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness is a national center specifically focused on the effective organization and delivery of services for people who are homeless and have serious mental illnesses.

U.S. Conference of Mayors
T: 202-293-7330
www.usmayors.org

The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,183 such cities in the country today, each of which is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.