This CRP was established with the mission to provide financial assistance for citizens who are recovering from Hurricane Helene. Funding will be provided as a payment directly to the business, vendor, landlord, or contractor that will be supplying your recovery efforts. If you were directly affected by Hurricane Helene, whether this included home damage, displacement, rental or utility needs, landscape cleanup, loss or damage to personal property or vital documents, financial loss, food shortages, or education support, we encourage you to submit an application to receive assistance from this CRP while funding is available. Financial assistance will be determined based upon the needs of the household and funding available at the time of the application. More details are provided within the CRP application. Examples of approved funding are: Financial and Household Needs Assistance – help with rent, utilities, basic household items (e.g. clothing, cleaning supplies), temporary housing/emergency shelter, employment assistance, legal aid, and transportation access. Food Assistance – access to meals (e.g., food pantries, meal delivery), and/or financial assistance to purchase food. Health Supports – assistance accessing mental and physical health services, prescriptions, medical supplies, and emergency room visits. Educational Supports – assistance related to setting up temporary school sites, student transportation, school supplies, setting up community-based learning sites, school clean-up; and relocation of teachers, students, and administrators. Other services and supports - as determined and identified by impacted populations, community-based organizations, and specific communities, to meet the evolving needs of the communities impacted by the Disaster.

Disaster Assistance on an individual needs basis in the event of a fire, flood, hurricane, or tornado.

No declared emergencies at this time.

This program provides short term, limited financial assistance to families with children when a fire or other natural disaster has destroyed those things necessary for taking care of the family. Payments can be made for food, clothing, shelter, or the repair or replacement of household items.

The Disaster Services program is charged with responding to the needs of victims of disasters throughout our service area. Such disasters include, but are not limited to, single and multiple family fires, floods, winters storms, and transportation mishaps. In responding to verifiable emergencies, volunteer Disaster Action Team members are authorized to provide emergency food, clothing and shelter to assist families to again become self sufficient, and to reduce stress and hardships. Offers disaster preparedness services and disaster training classes.

The Coast Guard Mutual Assistance provides financial assistance to clients caught in emergency, short-term, financial situations beyond their control that endanger personal well-being. An emergency condition is one that arises suddenly, is unforeseen and urgent, and requires immediate attention. Emergency assistance is generally authorized in circumstances that impose a serious financial or personal hardship on the client requiring urgent help to relieve the situation.

Provides assistance in the wake of all types of disasters, natural or otherwise. Services provided include spiritual ministry; counseling; identification/registration; mobile feeding; congregate feeding; financial assistance; shelter; donated materials; basic commodities; reconstruction and advocacy.

The Red Cross provides disaster education presentations to individuals in the community to prevent prepare for and recover from disasters or other life-threatening emergencies. The American Red Cross responds to disasters, including home fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, hazardous materials spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters. The most common of these disasters is fires.

Provides disaster relief for victims of domestic disasters - fires and floods; and training for disaster volunteers. Community education on family disaster preparation. The emergency contact phone number is 1-800-733-2767. This is a Statewide 24/7 call center which will ensure all calls are answered by a live person and will be forwarded to the proper channels.

During a disaster, offers shelter and meals to those displaced. After a disaster, trained Red Cross interviewers meet one on one with families to determine their needs. The assistance may include providing the means for them to pay for groceries, new clothes, rent, emergency home repairs, transportation, medicines, and tools.

Red Cross disaster relief focuses on meeting people's immediate emergency disaster-caused needs. When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross provides shelter, food, and health and mental health services to address basic human needs. In addition to these services, the core of Red Cross disaster relief is the assistance given to individuals and families affected by disaster to enable them to resume their normal daily activities independently. The Red Cross also feeds emergency workers, handles inquiries from concerned family members outside the disaster area, provides blood and blood products to disaster victims, and helps those affected by disaster to access other available resources. Although the American Red Cross is not a government agency, its authority to provide disaster relief was formalized when, in 1905, the Red Cross was chartered by Congress to carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same. The Charter is not only a grant of power, but also an imposition of duties and obligations to the nation, to disaster victims, and to the people who generously support its work with their donations. For Disaster Assistance Information: (866)438-4636. For Donations and Information: English: (800)733-2767 Spanish: (800)257-7575

There are no declared emergencies at this time

Provide relief to victims of disaster. Provide disaster community education programs. Provide relief to victims in single-family fires. Work with city government to maintain disaster plan for city-wide coverage.

Provides shelter, food, emotional support, health services, relief supplies and other forms of support to people impacted by disasters. Work with individuals, families, businesses and communities to provide recovery assistance in the weeks and months following a disaster.

Provides short-term medical, hunger and disaster relief and development assistance to people in need in the United States and overseas. Committed to responding with appropriate resources and timing to natural and man-made disasters by mobilizing medical teams, logistics personnel and other trained emergency relief personnel to handle the procurement, transportation and distribution of food, clothing, agricultural, medical and other supplies.

Emergency Assistance (EA) provides short term, limited financial assistance to families with children when a fire or other natural disaster has destroyed those things necessary for taking care of your family. Emergency Assistance is also available if your family lost all income between December 1 and March 15 and the loss is due to severe weather or energy shortage layoffs. Emergency Assistance payments can be made for food, clothing, shelter, or the repair or replacement of essential household items. The amount of assistance cannot be more than $500 and is limited to 30 consecutive days in any 12 month.

Responds to disasters occurring within communities 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Provides a plan for recovery that covers the basic needs of emergency lodging, food, clothing, medications, and crisis counseling, as well as other resources available to meet the emergency needs of family and individuals

Provides assistance to families that does not exceed over 30 days in any 12 consecutive month period and covers food, clothing, shelter, or repair or replacement of essential household items that have resulted from a natural disaster or a fire in the home. It is also available to anyone who has lost income due to severe weather or energy shortage.

Relief to victims of disaster that need emergency food, clothing, and shelter. This program provides temporary basic housing and shelter on a emergency basis to prevent homelessness for individuals and families in crisis. Housing includes referrals and information and location term living arrangements for people who require a moderate-extensive amount of support to maintain independent living conditions.