Community Resources

Counseling Services (FREE FOR STUDENTS)
Counseling Services (LOCAL)
Contact/Help Line
Disaster
Domestic Violence
Food/Clothing/Shelter/Housing
Individual & Family Services
Legal
Medical/Health Services
Sexual Assault
Transportation
Other

Area code 509 unless otherwise shown.

Counseling Services

  • Lourdes Counseling Center
    509-943-9104
    Provides mental health services for adults, children, and families on an inpatient or outpatient basis.
  • Catholic Family & Child Service
    509-946-4645
    509-545-6145
  • Lutheran Community Services Northwest
    509-735-6446
    Provides services to families in crisis, outpatient counseling, advocate home network for children/families and a prenatal planning program. Sliding fee scale.
  • Tri-Cities Community Health (formerly La Clinica)
    509-547-2204
    Provides medical and dental services. Fee determined by clients’ ability to pay
  • Planned Parenthood
    509-783-2859
    Services available to all women for family planning and maternity care management.
  • Sunderland Family Treatment Services
    509-736-0704
    Provides individual, couple, family and group counseling, case management and medication management.
  • Tri-Cities Chaplaincy
    509-783-7416
    Provides counseling services, hospice care, pastoral education classes and support group meetings. Services available to anyone.

Contact/Help Line

Disaster

  • American Red Cross
    509-783-6195
    Covers Benton and Franklin Counties

Domestic Violence

  • Columbia Basin Domestic Violence
    509-735-2271
    509-582-9841
    24-hour crisis counseling, shelter. Provides education, counseling, and shelter to battered women, men, or children.

Food/Clothing/Shelter/Housing

  • Benton Franklin Community Action Committee
    509-545-4042
  • DSHS Community Services
    509-735-7119
  • Employment Security (Work Source)
    509-734-5900
  • Goodwill Industries
    509-547-7717
    509-783-2449
    509-946-4575
  • Kennewick Housing Authority
    509-586-8576
  • Pasco Housing Authority
    509-547-3581
  • Richland Housing Authority
    509-943-8686
  • Red Cross Services
    509-783-6195
  • Runaway Hotline (24 hour)
    1-800-231-8686
  • Salvation Army
    509-547-2138
    Provides emergency shelter, food, clothing and prescription assistance.
  • St. Vincent DePaul
    509-547-2341
  • Tri-Cities Food Bank
    Kennewick: 509-586-0688
    Richland: 509-943-2795
  • Tri-Cities Residential Services
    509-783-3331
  • Tri-Cities Union Gospel Mission
    509-547-2112

Individual & Family Services

  • Annie Tran Center for Grief and Loss
    1-509-786-7100
  • Adult Protective Services (APS)
    509-545-5524
  • Catholic Family and Child Services
    509-946-4645
    509-545-6145
  • Children’s Protective Services (CPS)
    509-545-5524
  • Columbia Basin Apartment Assn (Landlord/Tenant)
    509-783-1800
  • Consumer Credit Counseling
    509-737-1973
  • DSHS Division of Child & Family Services
    509-545-2401
  • DSHS Division of Developmental Disabilities
    509-545-2355
  • Early Childhood Education Assistance Program
    509-736-2286
  • Gay and Lesbian Outreach — River of Life Metropolitan Community Church
    509-628-4047
  • Hanford Family Care Services (provided by Working Solutions, Inc.)
    800-322-9776
    Provides comprehensive resources, counseling and educational services to help Hanford employees and their family members meet personal and family challenges, such as child care, parenting, elder care issues.
  • Headstart
    509-735-1062
  • Planned Parenthood
    509-783-5059
    Additional childcare information available from Student Services.
  • Childcare Resource and Referral Program
    509-545-4042
    720 W. Court St., Pasco
    This is a free of charge service offered to the public through the Benton-Franklin Community Action Committee.
  • Tri-Cities Pregnancy Center
    509-943-2124
    509-544-9329
    Provides free services regarding pregnancy issues to all women.
  • Women’s Resource Center, CBC
    509-547-0511 Ext. 2325.
    Provides free support services to anyone in the community.
  • Women & Children’s Clinic, Kennewick General
    509-586-6111
    Provides sick and well baby care to children and pre- and post-natal care to women

Legal

  • Benton Franklin Legal Aid Society
    509-734-9840
  • Benton County Justice Center
    509-735-8388
  • Juvenile Justice Center
    509-783-2151
  • Washington State Human Rights Commission
    800-662-2755/509-321-2808
    Provides referral service to an attorney.

Medical/Health Services

  • AIDS
    • Benton Franklin District Health Department, AIDS Project
      509-943-2614
  • Chemical Dependency
    • Benton Franklin Substance Abuse Coalition
      509-783-3180
      Monday – Friday, 8:30AM – 5:00PM
    • Choices and Changes
      509-735-7899
      A drug & alcohol recovery center providing group, individual, family & co-dependency counseling.
    • Detox Center
      509-547-9000
      Provides 24-hour non-medical assistance and counseling to alcohol/chemically dependent individuals.
    • Discovery Substance Abuse Services
      509-736-0840
      Provides alcohol related outpatient services including DWI assessments, and alcohol and drug abuse information school.
  • Pre-treatment, intensive outpatient aftercare, groups, individual, family, marital counseling, ACOA, and co-dependency instruction
    • Narcotics Anonymous
      509-546-8244
      Provides a support system to anyone who has a problem with chemical/alcohol dependency.
    • Our Lady of Lourdes Chemical Dependency Unit
      509-546-2377
      Chemical dependency treatment, DWI referrals, intensive inpatient/outpatient, addicted pregnant women’s program.
  • Health Departments
    • Kennewick: 509-586-0207, ext. 221
      Pasco: 509-547-9737, ext. 221
      Richland: 509-943-2614
  • Hospitals

Sexual Assault

Transportation

Other

  • Benton Franklin Community Action Committee (BFCAC)
    509-545-4065
  • Salvation Army
    509-547-2138
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars
    509-545-4702