Public education and navigation: Direct and regulated services are available only when specifically identified; legal and clinical judgment stays with qualified professionals.
Family Safety & Stability Coalition · Florida

Safety. Stability.
A clear next step.

Families rarely face one problem at a time. FSSC provides a trauma-informed navigation network that helps parents, caregivers and families make sense of overlapping systems, find the right support, remove practical barriers, and keep moving forward without having to become the project manager of every system touching their lives.

“The family should not have to become the project manager of every system touching their life.”
FSSC organizing principle
How FSSC Helps

Support that follows the family, not the silo.


People can enter through one need, then connect to other service lanes without starting over.

🧭

Family Navigation

Plain-language next steps, family roadmaps, warm referrals, practical barrier-solving, follow-through and transition planning.

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Mental, Behavioral & Recovery Services

Separate pathways for mental health & psychiatry, behavior/parenting & family support, substance use & recovery, and coordinated care when needs overlap.

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Housing & Basic Needs

Housing/resource navigation, transportation, childcare, food and essential supports, plus longer-term Safe Haven feasibility work.

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Healthcare Navigation

Primary and specialty referrals, records, insurance barriers, appointment preparation, medical follow-through and evidence-quality advocacy.

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Legal Information & Advocacy

Family court and child-welfare education, records organization, process navigation, accessibility support, attorney-ready handoffs and qualified legal referrals.

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Benefits & Financial Stability

Benefits navigation, payer troubleshooting, assistance discovery, resource matching and financial-stability pathways.

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Disability & Accessibility

Accessible communication, accommodation navigation, neurodivergence-sensitive design and individualized support across programs.

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Education & Economic Mobility

Education, scholarships, trades, certifications, workforce readiness, life skills and independence planning.

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Research, Training & Systems Improvement

Program evaluation, expert review, professional education, evidence-informed policy work and family-centered systems improvement.

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What Makes It Different

A referral is not complete when a phone number is handed over.

Closed-loop follow-through.
Track whether a referral was accepted, scheduled, completed and followed by the right next step.
Barrier-aware access.
Transportation, childcare, payer, disability, technology, work schedules and safety can determine whether a service is truly usable.
Source-first documentation.
Separate what a family reports, what a source documents, what remains unclear, and what requires professional judgment.
Professional boundaries.
Navigators organize, educate and connect. Attorneys, clinicians and other licensed professionals retain professional judgment.
A Foundational Program

Family Court Justice Coalition lives on inside FSSC.


The original FCJC legal-information and family-court navigation work remains an important FSSC program. It is now one lane inside a broader family-stability model rather than the entire organization.

Public education + professional boundaries

Preserving the strongest FCJC ideas

FSSC provides case organization, records and evidence literacy, docket and chronology support, hearing-preparation education, post-call documentation, accessibility workflows, and qualified legal-referral pathways within clear professional boundaries.

FSSC helps families move from crisis to stability, then from stability to growth.

The destination is not permanent crisis management. It is greater clarity, independence, safety, access and community.

FSSC Service Lane

🧭 Family Navigation

A clear next step when several systems, needs, and practical barriers overlap.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC helps families identify the most urgent need, organize the next manageable steps, find appropriate resources, and follow up on whether a referral actually worked.

Common next steps

  • Clarify what needs attention first
  • Build a plain-language family roadmap
  • Identify barriers such as transportation, childcare, cost, disability, or technology
  • Connect legal, health, behavioral-health, housing, benefits, and education needs without forcing repeated retelling
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: Navigation is educational and practical support. It does not replace emergency response, legal representation, medical care, mental-health treatment, or another licensed service.
FSSC Service Lane

🧠 Mental, Behavioral & Recovery Services

Find the right kind of support and address the barriers that can keep care out of reach.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC distinguishes mental health and psychiatry, behavior and parenting support, substance-use and recovery services, and coordinated care when needs overlap.

Common next steps

  • Identify the appropriate service lane
  • Locate official or qualified provider pathways
  • Prepare questions for a provider or referral source
  • Address payer, transportation, scheduling, childcare, accessibility, and follow-through barriers
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: FSSC does not diagnose, prescribe, provide therapy, or make treatment decisions unless a separately identified licensed service is established. Call or text 988 for a mental-health or suicide crisis in the United States.
FSSC Service Lane

🏠 Housing & Basic Needs

Practical navigation for housing instability and the needs that affect whether a family can follow through.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC can help identify official housing and community-resource pathways and organize the related transportation, food, childcare, benefits, and safety questions.

Common next steps

  • Define the immediate housing or basic-needs problem
  • Connect to verified official and community resource pathways
  • Prepare eligibility and availability questions
  • Coordinate related benefits, transportation, childcare, and safety needs
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: A resource listing does not guarantee eligibility, capacity, funding, placement, or shelter. Confirm availability directly. Call 911 when there is immediate danger.
FSSC Service Lane

🩺 Healthcare Navigation

Organize referrals, records, authorizations, appointments, and follow-through.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC helps families prepare for healthcare access steps and document what was requested, received, scheduled, completed, or still unresolved.

Common next steps

  • Prepare for primary or specialty appointments
  • Track referrals, prior authorizations, records, and follow-up
  • Identify insurance, transportation, communication, and accessibility barriers
  • Organize questions and source records for qualified clinicians
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: FSSC does not diagnose, treat, give medical advice, or replace a licensed clinician. Call 911 for an immediate medical emergency.
FSSC Service Lane

💳 Benefits & Financial Stability

Make benefits and assistance systems easier to understand and navigate.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC helps organize notices, identify official assistance pathways, prepare questions, and track follow-up when eligibility, payer, or documentation issues block progress.

Common next steps

  • Identify the benefit or assistance program involved
  • Use official application and appeal information
  • Organize notices, requested documents, and contact history
  • Connect benefits questions with housing, health, disability, childcare, and employment needs
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: FSSC does not decide eligibility or guarantee approval, funding, coverage, or payment. Confirm requirements and deadlines with the responsible agency or a qualified benefits professional.
FSSC Service Lane

♿ Disability & Accessibility

Access needs should be identified early and carried across every service lane.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC supports plain-language communication, accommodation navigation, disability and neurodivergence-sensitive planning, and referral to qualified advocacy resources.

Common next steps

  • Identify the communication or access barrier
  • Prepare a clear accommodation request
  • Document requests and responses
  • Connect to official disability-rights or professional support when needed
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: Rights, procedures, and enforcement paths depend on the setting and jurisdiction. FSSC offers navigation and organization, not individualized legal advice or a guarantee that an accommodation will be granted.
FSSC Service Lane

🎓 Education & Economic Mobility

Connect education, skills, work, and family stability into one practical pathway.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC helps families identify official education and workforce resources and organize questions about programs, training, scholarships, accessibility, childcare, and transportation.

Common next steps

  • Clarify the education, credential, or employment goal
  • Identify official schools, training, workforce, and scholarship pathways
  • Prepare eligibility, cost, schedule, and accessibility questions
  • Plan around caregiving, transportation, technology, and other practical barriers
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: Program admission, financial aid, employment, licensing, and funding are controlled by the responsible institution or agency. Verify all requirements directly.
FSSC Service Lane

📚 Research, Training & Systems Improvement

Turn recurring barriers into careful learning without turning private family stories into public content.

How FSSC Helps

What this lane offers now.


FSSC develops source-disciplined research, professional education, program evaluation, and family-centered systems-improvement work with appropriate partners and review.

Common next steps

  • Separate verified facts, reports, inferences, and unresolved questions
  • Protect child and family privacy
  • Use qualified legal, clinical, forensic, or research review when required
  • Translate recurring patterns into responsible training and policy questions
Scope & Safety

Know what this lane does—and does not—provide.


Important: Do not send confidential case files, medical records, identifying child information, or sensitive attachments through a public inbox. Research participation should use an approved protocol when one is available.
Get Help

You do not need to know which program you need.

Start with what is happening. The guided-navigation model is designed to identify the right lane, immediate barriers and next manageable steps without forcing families to retell the same story.

Safety & Privacy

How we contact you can matter as much as what we say.


Intake and portal design includes safe-contact hours, voicemail preferences, neutral notification previews, shared-device caution and accessibility needs before routine outreach begins.

Safe-contact rule: This launch site does not collect case files, medical records, government IDs, photographs or other sensitive family information through a public web form. Start with a general routing email and do not include confidential records; if a secure intake is appropriate, FSSC can direct you to the approved channel.
If You Need Immediate Help

FSSC is not an emergency response service.

If there is immediate danger, call 911. For a mental-health or suicide crisis in the United States, call or text 988. Use the verified resources page for current official Florida crisis, safety, legal-navigation, disability, and basic-needs pathways.

Programs & Service Architecture

One coalition. Many ways to stabilize a family.

FSSC connects practical navigation, public education, verified resources, and qualified professional referrals across the service lanes shown here.

Foundational

Family Resource Navigation

Guided intake, family roadmaps, resource matching, barrier-solving, referrals, tasks, documents, appointments and follow-through across multiple systems.

Family roadmapClosed-loop referralsBenefits/resourcesPractical barriers
Navigation available

Mental, Behavioral & Recovery Services

FSSC keeps distinct public lanes for Mental Health & Psychiatry; Behavior, Parenting & Family Support; Substance Use & Recovery; and Co-Occurring & Complex Care when needs overlap. FSSC navigation may help with access and warm handoff, while diagnosis, treatment, medication decisions and regulated services remain with qualified professionals and approved partners.

Mental Health & PsychiatryBehavior & ParentingSubstance Use & RecoveryCo-Occurring Care
Legal review

Family Court Justice Coalition

Legal information, organization, family-court and child-welfare navigation, records and docket literacy, accessibility support, attorney-ready handoffs and qualified legal referrals. Individualized legal judgment stays with licensed counsel.

Navigation available

Child Safety & Medical Evidence

Healthcare navigation, child medical referral follow-through, records access, examination/documentation quality, expert review and evidence-informed standards when healthcare and child welfare intersect.

Navigation available

Family Stability & Restoration

Housing/basic-needs navigation, transportation, childcare, dignity supports, caregiver bridge concepts, postpartum-sensitive planning and pathways toward independence.

Navigation available

Parent Voice & Systems Evidence

Ethical surveys, lived-experience input, source-disciplined advocacy, Case-to-Policy concepts, professional review and evidence-informed systems improvement.

Across Every Program

Accessibility, privacy, documentation integrity and professional boundaries are shared requirements.


Accessibility

Communication, disability, neurodivergence, literacy, language and technology access.

Privacy & Safety

Minimum-necessary collection, safe contact, consent, restricted data and careful disclosure.

Source Integrity

Reported, documented, inferred, disputed and verified information stay distinct.

Qualified Review

Legal, clinical, forensic and other specialized judgments route to qualified professionals.

Share Your Voice

Lived experience can help improve systems, training and programs.

FSSC is developing ethical ways for parents, caregivers and professionals to contribute to program design, quality improvement, research questions and policy learning without turning private family stories into public content without consent.

Ways to Contribute

Different voices. Different levels of participation.


Family input

Parent & Caregiver Input

Short, low-burden surveys can help identify recurring barriers and areas where families need better support.

Professional input

Clinical & Professional Review

De-identified scenarios, standards review and structured professional feedback can support training and program design.

Research safeguard: Public surveys should avoid names, case numbers, medical records, photographs and identifying case facts unless a later approved protocol specifically requires and protects them.
Partner With FSSC

Families need networks that talk to each other.

FSSC connects a professional and community partner network so families can move from “here is a number to call” to a warm, trackable connection with the right service.

Who We Want to Work With

A broader coalition for broader family needs.


Mental, Behavioral & Recovery

Therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, parenting/behavior specialists, recovery/SUD providers and trauma-informed practices.

Legal

Family/dependency/appellate attorneys, legal aid, court help and ADA/civil-rights resources.

Healthcare

Pediatric, primary, specialty, disability, maternal/postpartum and allied-health partners.

Housing & Safety

DV organizations, housing providers, emergency lodging, transportation and practical support.

Benefits & Access

Enrollment assistance, insurance navigation, disability and charitable-care partners.

Education & Workforce

Schools, colleges, trades, apprenticeships, employers and scholarship partners.

Veterans & Youth

VA-accredited organizations, military-family resources and transition programs.

Research & Funding

Universities, experts, foundations, grantmakers, evaluators and systems-improvement partners.

Partner Standard

A directory listing is not enough.

Partner records should identify who is served, what is offered, geography, payer/cost, accessibility, referral requirements, current capacity when available, last verification date and the next action.

FSSC commitment: do not present a partner, provider, resource, capacity estimate, rate or eligibility rule as current unless it has an appropriate source and verification state.
Founding Partner Interest

Tell us where you fit.


Start with a simple introduction.

For the public-launch phase, FSSC is using a low-data email pathway rather than a public intake form. Share your organization, role, service area, and the kind of collaboration you are interested in. Please do not send client records or confidential case information.

A structured partner form can be added after the final privacy, conflict, consent and information-sharing rules are connected.
About FSSC

Protect children. Strengthen families. Turn complexity into clear next steps.

FSSC grew from family-court and child-welfare advocacy into a broader realization: families destabilize when legal, medical, mental-health, behavior/parenting, recovery, housing, benefits and practical barriers collide without coordination.

Why FSSC

Because systems do not experience families in silos.


A missed mental-health or recovery appointment may actually be a transportation problem. A “noncompliance” concern may be an accessibility or documentation problem. A legal crisis may be intensified by housing, childcare or medical barriers. FSSC is designed to see the whole picture without claiming expertise outside its scope.

Pathway

Crisis → Stabilization → Navigation → Recovery → Growth → Community

The goal is not to create a permanent client identity. Support should progressively transfer routine navigation back to the family: explain → demonstrate → complete together → observe → transfer ownership.

Values in Practice

Family-led

The family remains the decision-maker. A roadmap supports agency rather than becoming a punitive case plan.

Trauma-informed

Reduce unnecessary retelling, consider structural barriers and use safe communication.

Evidence-disciplined

Preserve original sources, identify uncertainty and avoid upgrading assumptions into facts.

Accessible

Design for disability, neurodivergence, language, literacy, technology, schedule and caregiving realities.

Professionally bounded

Use qualified clinicians, attorneys, accredited representatives and other professionals when specialized judgment is required.

Built for independence

Measure success by usable access, completed loops, greater understanding and growing navigation capacity.

Important Scope Note

FSSC is not one giant substitute for every profession.

Unless separately identified licensed programs are established, FSSC is not a law firm, medical practice, mental-health provider, child-protection investigator or government agency. Navigation focuses on education, organization, practical support, warm referral, accessibility and follow-through within approved scope.

Join the Founding Network

Help build the support system families should already have.

FSSC welcomes people and organizations that can strengthen safe navigation, verified resources, qualified referrals, education, and accountable community support.

Ways to Help

There is more than one kind of founding partner.


Clinicians & Professionals

Help design safe workflows, provide independent services where appropriate, review standards, or join an expert network.

Board & Governance

Help establish mission stewardship, governance, risk oversight, funding strategy and accountable growth.

Community Partners

Housing, transportation, food/basic needs, education, disability, youth, veteran and practical-support organizations.

Attorneys & Legal Aid

Provide qualified legal review, consultation, representation/referral pathways and guidance on public legal-information boundaries.

Funders & Grant Partners

Support carefully scoped pilots, verified resource infrastructure, workforce/training, research and housing feasibility.

Researchers & Educators

Collaborate on ethical evaluation, evidence development, curricula, professional education and systems improvement.

Safe contact: Start with a low-data introduction by email. Do not send protected client information, case files or sensitive records.
Contact FSSC

Start small. Tell us the lane, not your whole file.

FSSC uses low-data email routing for general help, partnerships, and research. Public inboxes are not approved for sensitive information or case records.

General / Next Step

For a general question or help identifying the right FSSC lane.

contact@familysafetycoalition.org

Partnerships

For clinicians, attorneys, community organizations, funders, educators and other prospective collaborators.

Start a partnership inquiry

Research & Policy

For research, program evaluation, institutional collaboration, education and systems-improvement inquiries.

research@familysafetycoalition.org

Response expectations: FSSC does not publish a guaranteed response time during the founding phase. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. For a mental-health or suicide crisis in the United States, call or text 988.
FSSC Practical Tools

Small tools for a clearer next step.

These launch tools help you read public information and document a conversation. They work in your browser and do not send what you type to FSSC.

Available Now

Accessible, low-data support.


Runs on this device

Read Aloud

Paste public or non-sensitive text and listen at your preferred pace using voices available on your device.

0 words
Not saved or submitted

Conversation Follow-Up Draft

Create a neutral written recap after a call or meeting. Review every detail before you send it.

Your draft will appear here.
Important: The follow-up tool does not verify facts, create a legal record, prove delivery, or provide legal advice. Keep the language accurate, preserve original records separately, and consult a qualified professional about high-stakes communications or deadlines.
Immediate & Verified Resources

Use the right help for the urgency.

FSSC is not an emergency response service. This launch directory connects Florida families to a focused set of official crisis, safety, legal-navigation, disability and basic-needs resources.

Crisis & Safety

Start with the level of help needed now.


Immediate danger or medical emergency

Call 911 in the United States. FSSC cannot dispatch emergency assistance.

EmergencyUnited States

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Call or text 988 in the United States for mental-health, suicide or substance-use crisis support.

Visit the official 988 Lifeline website
Call or text 988Verified Sep. 13, 2026

Florida Abuse Hotline

Report known or suspected abuse, neglect or abandonment of a child, or abuse, neglect or exploitation of a vulnerable adult. The Florida Department of Children and Families lists the hotline as available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.

Call 1-800-962-2873 (1-800-96-ABUSE).

Florida DCF: hotline information and online reporting
Official Florida DCFVerified Sep. 13, 2026

Domestic-violence support in Florida

Florida's certified domestic-violence centers provide crisis intervention, advocacy and temporary emergency shelter. Florida's statewide 24-hour domestic-violence hotline is 1-800-500-1119. Device use may be monitored; use a safer device when necessary.

Find an official Florida DCF-listed local center
Florida safety supportVerified Sep. 13, 2026
Navigation & Practical Support

Connect with the appropriate system.


Florida 211 Network

Dial 211 for confidential connection to local food, housing, health, transportation, family-support and other community resources. Programs and availability vary by location.

Visit the Florida 211 Network
Community navigationVerified Sep. 13, 2026

Florida Courts self-help information

Florida Courts provides court forms and self-help information for people representing themselves. Court staff and self-help materials do not provide individualized legal advice, and local filing procedures can differ.

Use Florida Courts self-help resources
Official Florida CourtsInformation, not representation

Florida Bar Lawyer Referral Service

The Florida Bar connects consumers with verified attorneys. Its statewide service lists a 30-minute consultation for no more than $25 in covered areas; it does not provide pro bono lawyers. Confirm coverage and all later fees directly.

Call 1-800-342-8011, Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Request a Florida Bar lawyer referral
Attorney referralVerified Sep. 13, 2026

Florida legal-aid directory

The Florida Bar explains the difference between legal aid and pro bono service and links to statewide directories. Financial, geographic and case-type eligibility varies; listing does not guarantee acceptance or representation.

Find Florida legal-aid and pro bono resources
Legal-aid pathwaysEligibility required

Disability Rights Florida

Florida's designated Protection and Advocacy organization accepts requests for disability-related legal or advocacy assistance. Requesting help does not guarantee that the organization can accept a matter.

Call 1-800-342-0823.

Request assistance from Disability Rights Florida
Disability rightsVerified Sep. 13, 2026

FSSC general navigation

For non-emergency help identifying a next step or the appropriate FSSC lane, email contact@familysafetycoalition.org. Do not send sensitive records to the public inbox.

FSSCNon-emergency
Verification standard: These links are provided for public navigation and do not imply endorsement, partnership or a guarantee of service. FSSC will re-check official sources and record the verification date. Program eligibility, hours, cost, capacity, jurisdiction and referral requirements must be confirmed directly before reliance.
Privacy

Collect less. Protect what matters.

FSSC's public-launch website is intentionally low-data. It is designed to provide information and route general inquiries without asking families to place sensitive case or health records into a public web form.

Last updated: September 7, 2026

What this launch site collects

This static public site does not currently provide an account login or public family case-intake form. If you choose an email link, your message is handled by your email provider and the FSSC mailbox provider. Hosting providers may also generate ordinary technical logs needed to deliver and secure the website.

What not to send through a public inbox

Do not send medical records, court files, child photographs, government IDs, Social Security numbers, passwords, payment-card information, or other highly sensitive records to a general public email address. Do not send sensitive information unless FSSC directs you to an approved secure process for a specific service.

How information may be used

General inquiries may be used to respond, identify the appropriate FSSC lane, develop a referral or partnership follow-up, and improve public information. FSSC should use minimum-necessary access and should not turn a general inquiry into public content.

Third-party services

Email, hosting, and linked external resources may be provided by third parties with their own privacy practices.

Children and case information

This website is not a public portal for submitting children's records or detailed allegations about an active family-court, child-welfare, medical or criminal matter. Use the general contact route only to request the appropriate next step.

Questions

For a privacy question about the public website, email contact@familysafetycoalition.org.

Accessibility

Access is part of the service, not an afterthought.

FSSC designs for families with different communication, disability, neurodivergence, literacy, language, technology, schedule, and caregiving realities.

Last updated: September 7, 2026

Website access

The launch site uses semantic headings, keyboard-focus indicators, responsive layouts and text-based navigation. FSSC treats accessibility testing as an ongoing quality requirement.

Communication accommodations

FSSC's broader service design includes communication preferences and accessibility needs. If you have difficulty using this site or need an alternative way to access public information, email contact@familysafetycoalition.org and describe the access barrier without sending sensitive case records.

Continuous improvement

Accessibility is an ongoing quality requirement. New forms, portals, documents and interactive tools should receive accessibility review before or during controlled rollout rather than assuming the static launch page solves every access need.

Terms & Scope

Clear help begins with clear boundaries.

FSSC provides public education, navigation, organization, practical-support coordination and referral pathways within the scope actually available. Professional judgment remains with qualified professionals.

Last updated: September 7, 2026

Not a law firm or emergency service

Unless a separately identified licensed program is established, FSSC and the Family Court Justice Coalition program are not a law firm, medical practice, mental-health provider, child-protection investigator, emergency service or government agency. Public materials do not create an attorney-client, clinician-patient or other licensed-professional relationship.

Information is not individualized professional advice

Public legal, medical, mental-health, benefits, housing and other information is educational and navigational. Individualized legal strategy, diagnosis, treatment, medication decisions, forensic opinions and other regulated professional judgments belong with appropriately qualified professionals.

Source and deadline discipline

A docket entry is not the underlying filing or order. An allegation is not a finding. A delayed or unavailable record is not proof of concealment. A date is not automatically a verified legal deadline. High-stakes timing and procedural rights require current authority and appropriate review.

No guarantee of service, eligibility or outcome

FSSC does not guarantee acceptance into a program, partner availability, eligibility, funding, benefit approval, court outcome, clinical result, response time or successful referral. A referral is considered useful only when current availability and requirements are verified as reasonably possible.

Emergency use

Do not use this website or a public FSSC inbox as a substitute for emergency response. Call 911 for immediate danger or medical emergency. In the United States, call or text 988 for a mental-health or suicide crisis.

External resources

External organizations and links remain responsible for their own services, eligibility, privacy and content. FSSC's longer-term resource directory will track verification status rather than treating a historic listing as proof of current availability.