2-1-1 Is Here 24/7 For Those In Need

2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc. is the front door for a collaborative project called the Adult Emergency Financial Assistance Program (AEFAP). This project helps individuals and married couples without minor children by providing financial assistance to help prevent evictions, foreclosures, and unhelathly living conditions as well as things to keep people employed. The assistance provided is done to help empower individuals and married couples without minor children to become self-sufficient. Assistance is provided only once every twelve (12) months. This collaborative is a partnership between Pinellas County Human Services (PCHS) and 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares (211).

2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc. is the front door for a collaborative project called the Family Services Initiative (FSI). This project helps families with minor children prevents child protection investigations, homelessness, and further social service engagement by providing families with the right service, at the right time, for the right need. The initiative provides support and wrap-around services to meet families’ basic needs and help empower them to become self-sufficient.

2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares is part of a statewide program of 2-1-1 providers that is dedicated to helping Florida veterans.

Our state has the third largest veteran population in the nation with 1,755,680 veterans calling Florida home. 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares is working in conjunction with the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs and the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay to provide a help-line where veterans can receive both emotional support and linkages to community resources.

By calling the Florida Veterans Support Line at 1-844-MYFLVET (693-5838), or 2-1-1, veterans are able to talk with someone who can help them through the difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life.