Community Resources Guide

Provides safe and stable homes to help struggling mothers and their dependent children to get back on their feet.

This program provides a mother and her children transitional housing while she gains or maintains employment, saves money, receives counseling, and learns life skills such as budgeting and healthy parenting techniques. 

Depending on their commitment to the program, mothers may stay for up to one year.

 Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

Alabama’s network of 57 One-Stop Alabama Career Centers and satellites are strategically located throughout the state. Job search and development, occupational and educational training, vocational rehabilitation, veterans’ services, and unemployment insurance information are offered.

Services:

• Housing
• Employment
• Healthcare Access
• Treatment and supports in the least restrictive environment 

Community Access: Individuals with SMI or SED will have access to services and opportunities that will enhance their ability to live and work independently, as active and equal members of their communities 

Our mission is to facilitate the inclusion of Alabamians with disabilities in education, employment, housing, transportation, health care, and leisure.

Recognized leader of diverse residential and community-based education, rehabilitation, and employment programs that prepare individuals who are deaf, blind, deafblind, and multi-disabled to reach their potential in education, independence, and career.

Alabama Possible’s Alabama Goes to College Campaign provides FAFSA and college application completion supports to students across the state. Alabama Possible also provides poverty simulations which are designed to sensitize those who frequently support families living in poverty, as well as to create a broader awareness of the realities of poverty among policy-makers, business and community leaders, students, faculty, administrators, and more. 

The Alabama Small Business Development Center network is a statewide, inter-institutional program to enhance economic growth in Alabama by providing management and technical assistance to small businesses. 

Professional Business Advisors are available in 10 Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) located at our member university partners across the state. The Alabama SBDC Network provides existing and aspiring entrepreneurs with the expert assistance, tools, training, and education they need to succeed

Career opportunities

State internships

agency services

Applications: (334) 242-3389

Programs available include: 

The Bridge Center, Inc. serves as workforce liaison in the community. The agency provides job seekers with resources to attain sustainable employment and collaborate with business leaders for the recruitment and development of their labor needs.

Programs available: 

• Resume building 
• Interview skills
• GED help
• Employment service
• Vocational training

Career Alabama can be accessed from virtually any computer or mobile device with internet connection while in the state of Alabama. If you do not have internet access at home, please visit your local public library to get online.

The JOBS Program which is DHR’s welfare to work program is operational in all 67 Alabama counties. The program provides services and work support to parents receiving cash assistance to help them find and retain employment. These services and supports seek to address barriers such as lack of adequate child care, poor access to transportation, domestic violence and substance abuse, all which greatly limit the ability to obtain and retain employment.

Services also include:

This program provides help to low-income families with a dependent child under age 18 or under age 19 if the child is a full-time student. 

Services that are provided are temporary cash payments, work and training services, and childcare assistance for parents who are employed or in training activities. Temporary assistance for needy families (T.A.N.F.)

Phone: (334) 242-1773; (334) 242-1950 or (251) 450-1923

Free services include early childhood resources, GED and English Language Learner classes, and a wide range of help for work training and job search assistance. Medical and disability services are available as well.

The We Share program provides equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, and personal care items, available at no cost, with limited funding from the Alabama Department of Rehab (STAR program). Medical equipment is available for anyone at all our retail stores (ask a cashier, items subject to availability).

We provide several core services, including 

• Information and referral, 
• advocacy, 
• skills and training, 
• peer support
• transition to home setting
• as well as additional services to help individuals.

Mobile Area Interfaith Conference, Inc (MAIC) is a collaborative effort involving faith-based organizations and religious congregations. The organization is dedicated to fostering the development of community resources to address unmet human needs, with a primary focus on serving marginalized citizens.  

Mobile County Metro Chaplaincy Program: Through the pre-release services at Mobile County Metro Jail Chaplaincy Program, inmates can attend GED classes, job readiness classes and religious services. 

In addition to providing public housing to those who qualify, there is a housing counseling program and help with financial planning. There is also a daycare and after-school care for children. Cost varies by ability to pay, but is discounted for people in public housing. 

Phone: (251) 470-0275 or (251) 470-0226

The Personnel Department provides our agencies with qualified employees. In turn, we serve the citizens of Mobile County by ensuring that the filling of local government jobs is based upon merit and ability and eliminates political factors, nepotism, or favoritism.