CalWORKs p​rovides cash aid and employment services to eligible families with children through California’s public assistance program. 

Services are delivered by county welfare departments and are available in all 58 counties.

Services include:

• Monthly cash assistance to help pay for basic needs such as housing, food, and utilities
• Immediate, short-term aid for families with little or no cash
• Employment and training support to help participants become self-sufficient
• Eligibility determinations based on family size, income, and special needs
• Support for families experiencing the absence, disability, or death of a parent
• Assistance for families with both parents present when the principal earner is unemployed
• Aid for needy caretaker relatives of foster children

Web pages

Home - https://www.placer.ca.gov/2111/CalWORKs-Employment-Services

General California Benefits Information - http://www.benefitscal.org/

Pioneer Community Energy is a Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) that was formed in 2017. CCAs are not-for-profit public agencies that purchase electricity for residents and businesses in the community, leading to more competitive energy rates. Pioneer is one of 24 operational CCAs in California. CCAs work with investor-owned utilities (IOUs) like PG&E. PG&E maintains the physical infrastructure, delivers the power, and provides the billing service. 

Pioneer serves large areas of Placer and El Dorado counties and the Cities of Grass Valley and Nevada City in Nevada County.

Pioneer customers are also PG&E customers since PG&E’s transmission infrastructure (poles and wires) is used to deliver the electric generation provided by Pioneer. For more, visit the How It Works page - pioneercommunityenergy.org/how-it-works/

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The Salvation Army provides emergency assistance and community support for Rocklin and Roseville residents. Services include:

• Rental Assistance – Limited funds for Rocklin; none for Roseville until August 2025.
• Utility Assistance – Roseville utilities only; unavailable until August 2025.
• Food Assistance – Emergency pantry and community meals.
• Other Services – Disaster response, showers, holiday programs, childcare, job search support, and spiritual counseling.

Web pages

• Home - https://roseville.salvationarmy.org/roseville/social-services/

Environmental Utilities is Roseville's service provider for water, wastewater, waste services, recycled water and stormwater quality services. 

Web pages

• Environmental Utilities home - https://www.roseville.ca.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=7964922&pageId=8717422
• Recycling - https://www.roseville.ca.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=7964922&pageId=8908309
• Water Wise House Calls - https://www.roseville.ca.us/cms/one.aspx?portalId=7964922&pageId=10783212
• Contact - https://www.roseville.ca.us/government/departments/environmental_utilities/contact_us

Public Works provides a wide range of public services such as:

• Bus Service/Transit
  • Placer County Transit (PCT)
  • Dial-A-Ride
  • Placer Commuter Express (PCE)
  • Tahoe Truckee Area Regional Transit (TART)
• Environmental Utilities (Garbage/Recycling, Sewer, Water)
• Floodplain Management
• Maintenance of County Vehicles
• Public Works Engineering
• Road Maintenance
  • Provides roadside tree and vegetation control
  • Emergency roadway hazard response
  • Repairs and maintains bridges
  • Maintains roadway signs, striping, and traffic signals
  • Snow removal in eastern Placer County, including North Lake Tahoe
  • Provides an encroachment permit for minor work in and around county maintained roads
  • Road issues/concerns can be reported to Placer County Connect
• Stormwater Quality
• Reduces pollutants in stormwater runoff
• Eliminates non-stormwater discharges
• Lessens the long-term impacts of stormwater discharges from development, business and municipal activities
• Educates the public about stormwater impacts

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Placer Independent Resource Services (PIRS) provides free services for people with disabilities.  They serves Placer, El Dorado, and Alpine counties. 

PLEASE NOTE
~ PIRS does not provide any kind of financial assistance.
~ PIRS does not provide direct housing placement. PIRS can provide general information about housing resources and can assist with applications; advises about search strategies and tenant/landlord rights and responsibilities. No referral or placement services provided.

Services include

• Assistive Technology (AT) Resource Coordination
• Peer Support
• Personal Assistant Referral
• Benefits Counseling
• Transportation and Housing Resource Information and Advocacy
• Independent Living Skills Training
• Information and Referral
• Individual and Systems Advocacy
• Minor Home Modification
• Transition to Community-based Living
• Diversion from Institutionalization
• Transition to Adulthood for Post-secondary School Youth with disabilities
• Technical Assistance on Disability Access
• Community Education…

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Clean & Sober Transitional Living provides sober living in a safe and long-established recovery community, including three meals a day and all utilities.

Web pages

• Home - https://clean-and-sober-living.com/

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will begin the process to add a new area code to the area currently served by the 530 area code, as the 530 area code is expected to be depleted of prefixes by September 2025.

The new area code will be introduced on top of the 530 area code using the overlay method. Overlay means that people with existing 530 area code phone numbers will keep those. Any new numbers would be given the new area code thus "overlaying" the existing numbers. Rather than having regions split geographically for assigning new area codes, old and new area codes will be intermixed throughout the service area. The new area code to overlay the 530 area codes is 837.

The North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) will be filing an application with the CPUC on behalf of the telecommunications industry to request the CPUC approve an overlay area code for the 530 area code region to provider additional numbering resources for the region.

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California Connect, also called the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program (DDTP), is funded by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and is a public purpose program that provides communications equipment and services to persons with disabilities. The program’s accessible products and services are fully subsidized, removing financial barriers.

Equipment is available for people who have difficulty:

• Hearing
• Seeing
• Moving
• Speaking
• Learning or remembering

California Relay Service can connect TTY users to non-TTY users.

There are free trainings on how to make a smartphone work better for people with disabilities.

To be eligible, you must be certified as having a permanent or temporary disability and you also must:

• Live in California
• Have access to telephone service
  • You must have access to either cell phone or land line service to participate in the program.

Web pages

• Home - https://caconnect.org/
• Apply - https://apply.caconnect.org/
• Find equipment - https://caconnect.org/e…

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The 211 Connecting Point Contact Center can refer people to other 211 call centers in California and around the USA.

Find contact centers around the United States here.

You can also call 866-FIND-211 (866-346-3211) to find your county's 211 in California. Your call can be transferred to your local 2-1-1.

(Note: If you work at a 2-1-1 in California and would like your county to route appropriately through the 866-find-211 phone line, please contact Eve Hamilton at ehamilton@icfs.org.)

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California 211 Direct Phone Numbers
2‑1‑1 is a free telephone number providing access to local community services. 2‑1‑1 is available in multiple languages, allowing people access to information and to obtain referrals for resources such as physical and mental health, housing, utility, food, transportation, employment assistance, and suicide and crisis interventions. 2‑1‑1 also provides disaster preparedness, response, and recovery during declared emergencies.
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