Crisis Assistance Ministries: 704-371-3001
Emergency rent and utility assistance, clothing, household goods, furniture, beds, and appliances. Customers experiencing hunger may also receive referrals to local food providers, federal food support programs, and access to an onsite emergency pantry.
Dress for Success: 704-525-7706
Professional attire for individuals who are looking/interviewing for a job.
Free clothing for trans-identified or anyone struggling with issues related to gender expression.
Some toiletries and clothing available, also offer laundry services.
Community free store offering furniture, clothing, non-perishable food items, toiletries, and electronics for anyone need. Store is only open on an appointment basis - you can text the above number to schedule.
Department of Social Services - Food stamps
Food Pantries
Salvation Army: 704-814-7031 or 704-348-2560 - Food bank
Mount Olive Food Pantry - Food bank
Mallard Creek United House of Prayer: 704-547-1007 - Food bank
Loaves and Fishes (must have referral): Food bank
Thrift United Methodist Church: 704-392-9807 - Food bank
Saint Paul Baptist Church: 704-334-5309 - Food bank
Northeast Seventh-Day Adventist Church: 704-921-6342 - Food bank
Liberty Baptist Church: 704-399-0142 - Food bank
Harvest Center: 704-333-4280 - Food bank
Second Harvest: 704-376-1785 - Food bank
Hearts and Hands: 704-885-5828 - Food bank
Enter your symptoms to determine if you should consider getting tested for COVID-19. If a test is recommended, you will receive a link to a list of nearby testing sites via email or text.
Enter your county or ZIP code to access a list of nearby testing site locations online.
Various places in Charlotte that have masks available for purchase.
Provides information about different emergency food resources.
Please call ahead to confirm hours and availability.
Finances
Text the work "finances" to 474747
If you are looking for services or programs in the community, dial 2-1-1. Service connections include basic needs (food, housing, material goods, transportation, utilities); consumer services; criminal justice and legal services; education; environment and public health/safety; health care; income support and employment; individual and family services; mental health and substance use services; organizational/community/international services.
Employment Opportunities - NC Works
A list of employment opportunities with Charlotte Works. Weekly virtual job fairs.
Employment Opportunities - Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina
Immediate employment opportunities.
Mortgage and Rental Assistance
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership provides mortgage and rental assistance to homeowners who need help with mortgage payments due to COVID-19.
Inclusive Eating Disorder Treatment Program. Inpatient and outpatient available. Takes insurance.
Inclusive inpatient and outpatient programs. Takes insurance.
Inclusive, multi levels of care. Takes insurance.
Carolina Resource Center for Eating Disorders
Dietician that works with eating disorders. Sliding scales available.
Virtual peer support mentor.
Inpatient, residential, partial-hospitalization, intensive outpatient treatment centers as well as eating disorder specialized therapists, dietitians, and coaches.
Day treatment, outpatient, and virtual. Different groups available.
Urban League of Central Carolinas, INC: 704-373-2256
Offers GED.
Offers free GED and ESL, as well as HiSET.
Urban League of Central Carolinas, INC: 704-373-2256
Mission is to advocate for and equip African Americans and all underserved communities with the tools to achieve social and economic equality. Different programs available including HVAC, Microsoft Office, Medical Coding, Duke Energy CAST Prep Course - 85% job placement.
A federal program meant to support employment and training activities to increase an individual's skills, careers, and ultimately their financial well-being. Several programs and partner agencies are involved and can be found on the website.
Young adults (14-24) can assess their skills and participate in a program that’s designed to address their individual needs, develop their skills, and prepare them for the workforce.
Provides assistance with job search, resume building, and career planning.
NC Department of Commerce Re-entry Program
Provides resources and assistance to job seekers with criminal records to help them overcome the barriers toward employment created from a criminal record.
Free job acquisition program for women.
Provides parents with short-term training and other services to help them become employed and move toward self-sufficiency. Families in which grandparents and relatives are caring for their relative children and legal guardians can receive services and support that prevent children from unnecessarily entering the foster care system.
Participants receive activities and services that will lead them to self sufficiency through increased income as a result of obtaining training and employment.
Provides individuals with criminal records resources to reach professional and personal goals.
Crisis Assistance Ministries: 704-371-3001
Emergency rent and utility assistance, clothing, household goods, furniture, beds, and appliances. Customers experiencing hunger may also receive referrals to local food providers, federal food support programs, and access to an onsite emergency pantry.
Offers job training to limit the time a family receives cash assistance.
Low Income Energy Assistance Program:
Assists with energy bills.
Assists with energy bills.
The Emergency Financial Assistance Program helps LGBTQ youth ages 11-20 who are in need of food, clothing, bus passes/gas cards, or help with a bill. If funds are not available, staff can help you look at options to get you on the right path.
Empowering individuals and families who are in financial crisis.
Matthews Free Medical Clinic: 704-841-8882
Provides free, quality healthcare to low income, uninsured patients in Mecklenburg and Union Counties.
Lake Norman Free Clinic: 704-841-8882
Provides medical for uninsured families and individuals.
Physicians Reach Out: 704-375-0172
Provides primary and specialty medical and dental care to eligible uninsured residents in Mecklenburg County.
Health Department: 704-336-6500
Many clinical services free or based on a sliding scale offered targeted for prevention and treatment of communicable diseases in Mecklenburg County.
Charlotte Community Health Center: 704-316-6561
Offer a sliding scale discount program for patients who do not have health insurance. Also accept Medicaid, Medicare, and most major private insurance plans.
Serves people experiencing homeless and extreme poverty, providing basic services and strategies to help people end their homelessness.
Men's Shelter of Charlotte: 704-334-3187
Serve unaccompanied men ages 18 and older. Before being admitted for a shelter bed, one will need to complete a Coordinated Entry Assessment
The Salvation Army Center of Hope: 704-348-2560
Emergency shelter for women and children that provides three daily meals, case management, intervention programs, health care, child care, and guidance for school-age children and teens. The program is free and open to Mecklenburg County residents. Girls of any age and boys up to the age of 17 are welcome with their mothers. For families with boys over the age of 17, case managers will help secure housing with a community partner.
Sister for Sister Housing Network: 704-350-5751
Transitional housing program which serves homeless women who are in recovery from drugs and alcohol.
Crisis Assistance Ministries: 704-371-3001
Rent and utility assistance.
Carolinas Care Partnership (CCP): 980-819-0713
Housing information services and assistance with housing supportive services.
Case management and scattered site housing to young adults ages 18-24 who are at-risk, experiencing homelessness, or fleeing domestic violence situations.
Time Out Youth’s Host Home Program helps LGBTQ youth who have been kicked out their homes due to sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression. Also provide case management services.
Foundation of recovery, provides life skills for chemically dependent adults and families within a supportive residential environment leading to independence.
Provides housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income families while supporting their efforts to achieve self-sufficiency.
Connects veterans, people with disabilities, and homeless households to housing.
There's Still Hope: 980-494-3230
A trans-led organization focused on providing emergency, temporary, short-term shelter for qualified transgender adults.
Transgender Law and Policy Institute
Transgender Law and Policy Institute: Questions about how the law in your jurisdiction affects you, looking for a referral, or have legal questions.
Focuses on the needs of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender individuals and couples, as well as straight individuals and couples.
The Bail Project: 704-201-0101
Provides free bail assistance to low-income individuals who are legally presumed innocent, and whom a judge has deemed eligible for release before trial contingent on paying bail.
Provides services for individuals with lower-incomes and provides free legal advice
Mecklenburg Defenders: 704-393-7720
Can provide help accessing health care, such as Medicaid, obtaining disability or SSI and food stamps among
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy: 704-376-1600
Provides services for individuals with lower-incomes and provides free legal advice.
The Free Pharmacy program provides free prescription medication to North Carolina residents who are low-income, uninsured and fall at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.
Mecklenburg County Crisis: 704-566-3410
Mental health first responders who assist individuals or groups experiencing mental health crisis, developmental disabilities, or substance use issues. Also support individuals, families, or communities in a situational crisis such as victim of crime, hostage situation, witness to violence or fatal or multiple injury scenes, post homicide or suicide. Offer emergency psychological assessment, immediate intervention for individuals, family and community crisis events.
Provides a holistic approach to individual counseling, group counseling, and trauma-informed care.
Offer individual, group and family counseling services to address psycho-social needs.
Offer individual, group and family counseling services to anyone with psycho-social needs.
Alexander Youth Network: 704-393-7720
Services are offered to children 5-18 and include Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Multi-systemic Therapy, Neuro-sequential Model of Therapy (NMT), Together Facing the Challenge, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Charlotte Community Health Clinic: 704-531-2467
Individual counseling for children and adults; Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT); Addiction counseling; Grief counseling; Trauma-informed counseling; Medication Assisted Treatment (Suboxone treatment)
Atrium Health - Behavioral Health: 704-444-2400
Adult inpatient behavioral health; Adolescent and child inpatient behavioral health; Adult outpatient behavioral health; Adolescent and child outpatient behavioral health; Adult partial hospitalizations programs; Adolescent and child partial hospitalizations programs; Adult medication management; Adolescent and child medication management; Brain Stimulation Services (including TMS); Adult facility based crisis; Child and adolescent school based services; Psychiatric Emergency Department
Provides support for medical, social, education, mental health, and HIV/ STI prevention needs of diverse and underserved populations. Offers PrEP and also the PrEP Navigator Program provides managed PrEP primary care to patients who may need more assistance taking or managing PrEP.
The PrEP program assists with PrEP navigation and some financial assistance, but does not provide the actual PrEP medication or labs. The program addresses barriers to getting PrEP including accessing medical care, medication, transportation, mental health, substance use, and any other identified needs.
Provides access to PrEP, can help if finances are a barrier to taking PrEP.
Amity Medical Center: 704-208-4134
Provide resources to bring health caring to those affected by HIV/AIDS and those at risk, and to communities with health disparities. Provides PrEP, and can provide free PrEP to uninsured individuals.
Eastowne Family Physicians: 704-445-4814
Work towards a healthy community where all individuals, regardless of ability to pay, have access to comprehensive health care. Provides PrEP.
Charlotte Community Health Clinic: 704-316-6561
Provided at Health Department located at 2845 Beatties Ford Road for symptomatic and known contacts to STIs and HIV. Call for an appointment.
Quality Comprehensive Health Center/The PowerHouse Project: 704-394-8968 or 980-999-5295
Quality and The Power House Project provide PrEP counseling and connection.
Empowers persons living with HIV and those at risk to be healthy and stigma free. Provides free, confidential HIV testing.
Provides access to health services to improve spiritual, physical and psychosocial status regardless of one's ability to pay. Offers STI/HIV testing.
Free services for people living with HIV and the LGBTQ+ community. CREW provides free, confidential HIV testing.
Planned Parenthood: 704-536-7233
Offer STI/HIV testing and treatment, staff can provide information and resources to help you prevent STIs/HIV.
Carolinas Care Partnership: 704-496-9586
Call ahead to schedule testing with one of our HIV Test Counselors, testing is free and confidential, and you can have your results in minutes.
Mecklenburg County Health Department: 704-336-6500
Provided at Health Department located at 2845 Beatties Ford Road for symptomatic and known contacts to STIs and HIV. Call for an appointment.
The PowerHouse Project:980-999-5295
Address health disparities and work to achieve health equity for all Mecklenburg County residents. Free HIV testing drop-in center open Monday - Friday 10am-6pm, you may also schedule an appointment. Powerhouse also hosts free HIV testing events, you can find these events on their Facebook page.
Programs are designed to provide LGBTQ-identified youth and adults (11-20) with opportunities to connect with others and to express your true self without judgment or assumptions.
Support group is open to ALL transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender diverse adults over 18 years of age, regardless of presentation or position on your self-discovery and actualization journey.
Partner and family support groups are open to any partners, friends, and family of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals who would like support and are 18 years of age and older.
CREW provides free support groups/counseling for individuals living with HIV and for the LGBTQ+ community.
Adult Support Group is a co-ed group that is open to the community but only for people living with HIV and 25 or older. The group covers topics such as disclosure, nutrition, legal assistance, medication/medical appointment compliance, HIV education, dating, aging with HIV, and other chronic illnesses.
The youth support group is connected with the Empowering Positive Youth (EPY) program and is a closed group.
Drop-in resource center for any young adult 16-24 years old who may need help making the successful evolution from youth to being an independent adult. Resource center staff empowers young adults to find employment, education and housing opportunities, ultimately leading to independence.
Support group is open to ALL transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender diverse adults over 18 years of age, regardless of presentation or position on your self-discovery and actualization journey.
Partner and family support groups are open to any partners, friends, and family of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals who would like support and are 18 years of age and older.
Provide hope and healing for those impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault.
Promise Resource Network (PRN): 704-390-7709
Peer Support is provided by people living in recovery, who serve as mentors and partners that offer their experience of hope, triumph, and resilience.
Members share their own experience, strength, and hope with each other. You will meet others who share your feelings and frustrations, if not your exact situation.
CREW provides free, harm-reduction based support groups/counseling for individuals living with HIV and for the LGBTQ+ community. The harm-reduction model supports individuals where they are by by working to minimize the negative health, social and legal impacts associated with alcohol and/or drug use.
A residential, abstinence based program that provides life skills for chemically dependent adults and families and supports individuals to independence. Abstinence is defined as the complete cessation (completely stopping) of drug or alcohol use.
Provides quality behavioral health services including inpatient, outpatient, and medication assisted treatment to adults over the age of 18.
Services include prevention, intervention, DWI/court, assessment, detoxification, outpatient treatment, and inpatient treatment.
The program welcomes mothers with their children to stay at their residential treatment facility, and focuses on spiritual, physical, social and psychological recovery, to help women understand and deal with the core issues of their alcohol and/or drug addiction.
Rebound provides free Christian, residential drug and recovery services for men who would not otherwise be able to afford such services.
Behavioral Health Center - CMC Mercy Horizons: 704-304-5000
Adults ages 18 and older who are suffering from alcohol and/or drug use will be admitted to this level of care will receive a complete medical evaluation and follow a prescribed detoxification regimen directed by a licensed physician.
Medical Care
Planned Parenthood: 704-536-7233
Offers hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for transgender people, provides referrals for gender-qualified resources if needed, and if you are already on hormone therapy, the health center can provide ongoing care and monitoring.
Amity Medical Center: 704-208-4134
Dr. Wesley Thompson and Dr. Richard Wynn offer transgender hormones (male to female and female to male), other transition services, and transition service referrals.
Located at Novant Health Midtown Family Medicine.
Shamieka Virella Dixon, MD: 704-381-8336
Levines Children's Center for Gender Health - Trans Specialist
Adva Eisenberg, MD: 704-316-1125
Trans Specialist - Endocrinology
Tryon Medical Partners - Internal medicine.
Thomas Marlowe, MD: 704-348-4000
Dr. Marlowe's Weight Loss Institute - Trans specialist
Novant Health Lakeside Family Physicians
Carson Rounds, MD: 704-384-7980
Novant Health Midtown Family Medicine
Frankie Simmons, MD: 704-289-5443
Atrium Health Union Family Practice
Leslie Thompson, NP: 704-316-5285
Trans-informed Pediatric Endocrinology - Midtown
Psychiatry
Eastover Psychiatric and Psychological Services: 704-362-2663
Richard Gellar, MD - Trans friendly
Jennifer Seugra, MD: 980-213-3530
Trans specialist
Psychotherapy
Please view a list of trans- informed, friendly, specialists here.
Voice Training/Speech Therapy
Voice and communication training for clients (transwomen, transmen, nonbinary) who wish to modify their voice.
Prismatic Speech Services: 336-609-6258
Transgender specific vocal training.
Chiropractic/Functional Medicine
OM Spa - Charlotte: 704-302-1524
Dr. Colin Renaud provides trans-informed functional medicine, wellness, and aesthetic medicine to improve health and wellness.
Massage Therapy
Maks Cullen Gomez, LMBT is a trans specialist offering massage therapy.
Dentistry
Plaza Midwood Dentistry: 704-837-8480
Dr. Mike Farmer provides trans-informed dentistry services.
Nutrition
Second Breakfast Nutrition: 980-368-2734
Trans friendly individual and group nutritional counseling services.
Healthcare Group
Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group:
Group of health care providers dedicated to the best practices in transgender healthcare. Provide resources for medical care, mental health, food/finance/business support, and LGBTQ+ support.
National Resources
National Center for Transgender Equality
Provides a detailed list of support lines; health care, insurance, and mental health; legal; incarceration; immigration, refugee, asylum, and international; domestic violence/abuse; nutrition and housing; employment services/advice; support and advocacy; and veteran resources.
