Futures Without Violence provides programs that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world. They seek to foster ongoing dialogue about gender-based violence and child abuse. Their vision is a future without violence that provides education, safety, justice, and hope.


Web pages

• Home - https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/
• Facts About Domestic Violence – https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/resources-events/get-the-facts/
• Webinars – https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/resources-events/webinars/
• Resource Center – https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/health/national-health-resource-center-on-domestic-violence/
• Outreach and Education Materials – https://store.futureswithoutviolence.org/

Friendship Line California offers confidential discussions for people aged 60 years and over and adults with mental and/or physical disabilities who may be lonely, isolated, grieving, experiencing depression, anxiety and/or thinking about death or suicide.

It operates two lines:

• Warmline
  • Available for routine phone calls in order to provide support, reassurance, well-being checks, and information and referral for additional care.
• Crisis Line
  • Available to older and disabled adults who may be lonely, bereaved, depressed, and at a higher risk for suicide.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.ioaging.org/friendship-line-california

1-800-FREE-411 (373-3411) provides directory assistance in the United States. It's an advertiser-supported service, so callers hear ads at the beginning and end of their call.

How it works:

• Call 1-800-FREE-411 (373-3411) from any phone in the US
• Listen to an ad
• Identify the city and state for the information desired
• Search by name or business type

Although Free-411 provides its service for free, users are still subject to any charges associated with making calls that may be imposed by their cellular service providers.

Web pages

• Learn More - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-800-FREE-411

The American Kidney Fund provides direct financial assistance to kidney patients in need and education for those with and at risk for kidney disease.

The National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service (CIS) is a federally funded program that was established in 1975 as an essential part of NCI’s cancer education and information efforts. For over 35 years, NCI’s CIS has been providing scientifically based, unbiased information to patients, their families and friends, physicians and other health professionals, and the general public about all aspects of cancer including: cancer research and clinical trials, cancer prevention, risk factors, symptoms, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, living with cancer, quitting smoking, etc.

Talk with an information specialist from the NCI’s Cancer Information Service. NCI information specialists are available to help answer your cancer-related questions whether you are a patient, family member or friend, health care provider, or researcher.

Their information specialists are trained to answer cancer related questions by telephone (1 (800) 4-CANCER), LiveHelp instant messaging, and e-mail. I…

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is developing innovative ways to help Veterans make the transition to college life. The VetSuccess on Campus (VSOC) program aims to help Veterans, Servicemembers, and their qualified dependents succeed and thrive through a coordinated delivery of on-campus benefits assistance and counseling, leading to completion of their education and preparing them to enter the labor market in viable careers.
The VSOC program provides a VA Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC) to each VSOC school. These VRCs are called VetSuccess on Campus (VSOC) Counselors. A VA Vet Center Outreach Coordinator is also provided, and co-located on many campuses, to provide peer-to-peer counseling and referral services.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.benefits.va.gov/vocrehab/vsoc.asp

CancerCare helps people cope with the challenges of cancer. 

Professional oncology social workers provide the following services:

• Support groups
• Educational workshops
• Publications
• Financial help for treatments
• Financial help for travel to and/or from medical appointments (as funding is available)

Web Pages

• Home - https://www.cancercare.org

The BulletPoints Project teaches medical and mental health care providers how to reduce the risk of firearm injury in their patients.

Included on the website are sections on:

• The Basics
  • How to counsel
  • Epidemiology
  • Guns 101 – Overview of types of guns and basic information that can help clinicians have informed conversations with patients and make knowledgeable and appropriate safety recommendations.
  • Firearm law
• Clinical Scenarios
• Interventions
• More resources, including FAQs
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.bulletpointsproject.org/
• FAQs - https://www.bulletpointsproject.org/faqs/

AARP offers a toll-free hotline to report fraud and learn more about scams. Specifically oriented for consumers ages 50+ and caregivers.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.aarp.org/

The Social Security Administration is committed to preventing, detecting, and eliminating fraud in their programs.

https://www.ssa.gov/antifraudfacts/

How to report fraud
If you suspect someone of committing fraud, waste, or abuse against Social Security you can contact the Office of the Inspector General’s fraud hotline at 800-269-0271 or submit a report online at https://oig.ssa.gov/.

If you receive a suspicious call from someone alleging to be from Social Security, hang up, and then report details of the call to the Office of the Inspector General at https://oig.ssa.gov/.

Investigations are most successful when you provide as much information as possible about the alleged suspect(s) and/or victim(s) involved. The more you can tell the SSA, the better chance they have of determining whether a crime has been committed. As you fill out a fraud allegation, please include the following about the alleged suspect(s) and/or victim(s):

• Names.
• Addresses.
• Telephone numbers.
• Dates of birth.
• Social …

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