Human Services
HUMAN SERVICES charities provide networks of direct services to people in need. They feed our hungry, strengthen our communities, shelter our homeless, care for our elderly, and nurture our young. HUMAN SERVICES charities fall into six Causes.
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Children's and Family Services (144) Children's and Family Services charities provide child care, adoption, foster care, family counseling, parenting education, and other adovacy and child welfare services that strengthen families and promote the well-being of our children. |
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Youth Development, Shelter, and Crisis Services (209) Organizations providing Youth Development, Shelter, and Crisis Services work to shelter, nurture and develop youth. They include group homes, shelters and orphanages; camps and youth ranches serving the needs of at-risk children; and recreation and youth service organizations providing programs in scouting and athletics. |
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Food Banks, Food Pantries, and Food Distribution (144) Charities classified as Food Banks, Food Pantries, and Food Distribution provide hunger relief in communities throughout our country. |
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Multipurpose Human Service Organizations (153) Multipurpose Human Service Organizations promote volunteerism and provide a broad range of direct services in the communities they serve, across the nation and around the globe. These organizations include YMCAs, YWCAs, the Red Cross, Volunteers of America, and others. |
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Homeless Services (183) Charities in the Homeless Services Cause provide assistance to homeless individuals and families through direct social services as well as advocacy. |
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Social Services (263) Social Services charities provide programs addressing the needs of the disadvantaged, the underemployed, the elderly and disabled, and other specific populations. They also include community centers and settlement houses that provide integrated services for local communities. |
Did you know?
- Shaken baby syndrome is responsible for about 1,500 infant deaths a year nationwide. Men are responsible for 80 percent of shaken baby syndrome cases.
- The number of assaults against the homeless is rising. In 2005, 73 homeless people were assaulted nationwide and 13 died.
- The U.S. Administration on Aging estimates that 1 out of 4 seniors in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
- One of every six children in America lives in poverty.
- Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men in America, even though the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says they comprise only 13 percent of adult males in the general population.
- One in five children (10 to 17 years old) receive unwanted sexual solicitations online.
- Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by an average of 30 years.
- 64% percent of children ages 4-11 have cotinine in their blood (a marker of recent exposure to secondhand smoke).
- There are about 542,000 foster care children in the United States; 126,000 of them are waiting to be adopted.
- Of those people seeking emergency food relief, more than one-third (36%) had to choose between buying food or paying for housing.
