AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program provides tax assistance to seniors. They are free all year to answer your tax questions. Please call 850.583.4606 or visit the website to learn more.

HANDS offers housing/home ownership information to low-income people. They can help you find an apartment. They can guide you towards owning your own home. They offer one-on-one counseling sessions. Most HANDS counseling is free.

Counseling services include:

• Affordable Apartments
• Budgets
• Foreclosure Prevention
• Pre-Home Purchase
• Tenant Rights

This agency helps seniors, 60 years and older, who live in Florida. They provide a range of programs and services to the elderly in need. Please call 850.494.7100 or visit website for more information.

The Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center offers a program to help anyone who is a victim or survivor of violence. Victims do NOT have to report to law enforcement to receive services. All services are free and private.

Services Include:

• Immediate outreach to victims of sexual battery
• Face-to-face and telephone counseling
• Support groups
• Accompany and support victims through criminal justice proceedings
• Transportation to court appearances and other appointments related to the victimization
• Assist with application process for Victims Compensation and relocation for Sexual Assault Victims
• Assistance with Protective Injunctions
• Emergency assistance with urgent special needs
• Personal advocacy
• Information and referral
• Community education, speeches, and consultation
• Network with other victim service providers and state organization
• Outreach services provided in the Gainesville Police Department
• HIV Test Site

Please contact for more information.

Alachua County Veteran Services provides professional assistance and advocacy to the Veterans of Alachua County, their eligible dependents and survivors in securing all entitled/eligible Veterans' benefits earned through honorable military service. Call or visit the website to learn more.

This group offers a variety of services. These are to help those in need. Please call or visit the website for more information.

Services Include:

• Bus Passes
• Community Outreach
• Disaster relief
• Eyeglasses
• Financial assistance for rent support and utilities
• Food
• Home Visits
• Person-to-person support through Case Managers
• Prescription Medicine
• Thrift Store vouchers for clothing

We are here to support persons with autism and their families. We provide diagnosis, education and treatment options. Please call for more info.