Community Support

Family Voices Local and national links for parent support groups and legislative news. The publication list has a number of helpful brochures.

Family Education Network has everything you need to know about sending your child to school.

The Individuals with Disability in Education Act (IDEA) addresses your child's rights in school.

PACER Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights will fill in where the previous two sites may have left off.

Housing

Brevard County Community Action Agency   provides financial assistance based on financial need. Services include mortgage/rental assistance, medical/dental payment assistance, and more.

Community of Hope  is a non-profit in Brevard County serving homeless families with children by providing housing programs. 

Genesis House  provides emergency shelter for homeless women and their children, long-term housing for student mothers with children, and shelter for homeless pregnant women.

Brevard County Housing and Human Services Emergency Rental Assistance  provides financial assistance and housing stability services to income eligible households for rent, rental arrears, utilities and home energy costs, utilities and home energy costs arrears, and other expenses related to housing incurred due, directly or indirectly, to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.

Our Florida  is Florida's federally-funded emergency rental assistance relief program to support residents and businesses as they continue to recover and rebuild. 

Food Assistance

St. Vincent de Paul Our Lady of Grace Parish Food Pantry
300 Malabar Rd SE, Palm Bay, FL 32907
(321) 725-6866

Bethel Abundant Life Ministries Food Pantry
1081 Port Malabar Blvd, Palm Bay, FL 32905
(321) 831-3543

CenterPointe Church Food Pantry
891 Coply St SE, Palm Bay, FL 32909
(321) 723-1216

Cornerstone Church of God Food Pantry
311 E Hibiscus Blvd, Palm Bay, FL 32901
(321) 437-4120

First French Adventist Church
1200 Glenham Dr NE, Palm Bay, FL 32905
(321) 914-9689

Peace Lutheran Church Food Pantry
1801 Port Malabar Blvd NE, Palm Bay, FL 32905
(321) 727-3131

Employment/Income Support

ACCESS Florida  provides eligibility screening and determination for Food Stamps, Medicaid, Temporary Cash Assistance.

WIC  provides nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and healthy foods to postpartum women, infants and children to age five.
601 E. University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901
(321) 726-2922

Goodwill West Melbourne Job Connection Center
2245 Coastal Lane, West Melbourne, FL 32904
(321) 953-8188

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