Online benefits application and screening pathway - Virginia; program, income, household, identity, and documentation rules apply
Virginia CommonHelp
CommonHelp is Virginia's official application and screening pathway for food, health, cash, energy, and child-care assistance. Availability and eligibility depend on the program and household circumstances.
SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, energy assistance, utility support, child-care, employment, and protective-services pathway - City of Portsmouth; eligibility and documentation rules apply
Portsmouth Social Services Benefits
Portsmouth Social Services helps residents access state benefit programs and local support. Ask about current eligibility, applications, and documents.
Public housing, Housing Choice Voucher, affordable-housing, and housing-stability pathway - Portsmouth; income, waitlist, eligibility, and funding rules apply; current availability must be confirmed
Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority
PRHA administers public-housing and Housing Choice Voucher pathways and provides affordable-housing information. Verify current waitlists, eligibility, and application routes before relying on a listing.
Clinic, family-planning, STI, immunization, WIC, environmental-health, prevention, and public-health pathway - Portsmouth Health District; appointment, eligibility, fee, and document rules apply
Portsmouth Health Department Clinics
Portsmouth Health Department pages provide current public-health and clinic information. Confirm hours, eligibility, and fees before traveling.
Behavioral-health, substance-use, intellectual-disability, assessment, treatment, peer, and case-management pathway - Portsmouth residents; clinical, eligibility, scheduling, and payment rules apply
Portsmouth Behavioral Healthcare Services
Portsmouth Behavioral Healthcare Services provides a continuum of behavioral-health, substance-use, and intellectual-disability services. Use its current service pages and main numbers to confirm fit and access.
Community medical, behavioral-health, dental, and enabling-services pathway - Hampton Roads; sliding-fee, insurance, appointment, and eligibility rules apply
Hampton Roads Community Health Center
Hampton Roads Community Health Center offers medical, behavioral, and dental care with access options for people who may be uninsured or underinsured. Confirm current locations, fees, and appointment rules.
Hospital, emergency, behavioral-health, specialty, outpatient, rehabilitation, and trauma-care pathway - Portsmouth and Hampton Roads; clinical, referral, insurance, payment, and emergency rules apply
Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center
Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center provides regional hospital, emergency, behavioral-health, specialty, and outpatient-care pathways. Confirm the current service and access route directly.
Military health-care and beneficiary-support pathway - eligible service members, veterans, families, and other authorized patients; beneficiary, referral, appointment, and access rules apply
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth provides military health-care services for eligible beneficiaries. Confirm eligibility, referrals, current services, and access rules; it is not a general public cleanup or crisis service.
School-based student-support, counseling referral, family assistance, special-education, and community-linkage pathway - Portsmouth Public Schools students and families; school, consent, privacy, and program rules apply
Portsmouth Public Schools Student and Family Support
Portsmouth Public Schools connects students and families with school-based and community supports. Confirm current referral, consent, and eligibility pathways.
Free public-library, computer, information, technology, digital-media, local-history, and community-learning pathway - Portsmouth; card, program, room, and technology rules apply
Portsmouth Public Library
Portsmouth Public Library provides free programs, computers, technology access, digital resources, local-history services, and branch locations. Ask staff about cards and current access.
Digital library card, e-books, audiobooks, technology, job, education, law, and veteran-resource pathway - Portsmouth; residency, card, privacy, and technology rules apply
Portsmouth Public Library Digital Branch
The library's digital branch offers online library resources, digital literacy, career tools, education, law-library resources, and veteran links. Confirm current card and access rules.
City parks, recreation, senior, youth, wellness, facility, and community-program pathway - Portsmouth; age, schedule, registration, accessibility, and program rules apply
Portsmouth Parks and Recreation
Portsmouth Parks and Recreation provides parks, recreation centers, programs, and community activities. Contact the department for current schedules, registration, and access information.
Food pantry, community-kitchen, emergency-food, and partner-agency navigation pathway - Southeastern Virginia including Portsmouth; pantry schedule, household, supply, and intake rules apply
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore
The Foodbank maintains a current partner directory for food assistance, including Portsmouth-area pantries and meal sites. Confirm hours and eligibility directly with the listed partner.
Shelter, outreach, drop-in, housing-stability, and homelessness-support pathway - Portsmouth; intake, capacity, household, and eligibility rules apply
Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless
Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless provides shelter and related support for people experiencing homelessness. Confirm current intake, hours, and availability directly; placement is not guaranteed.
Regional homelessness coordination and Portsmouth Homeless Action Consortium navigation pathway - Hampton Roads; referral, capacity, and program rules apply
Hampton Roads Ends Homelessness
Hampton Roads Ends Homelessness provides information about the Portsmouth Homeless Action Consortium and regional homelessness coordination. Use the current housing-crisis pathway and confirm availability.
Emergency and permanent housing, domestic-violence advocacy, and shelter pathway - Hampton Roads; survivor intake, confidentiality, capacity, and safety rules apply
Samaritan House Housing Services
Samaritan House provides emergency and permanent housing pathways for people affected by domestic violence. Use a safe communication method if someone may monitor calls or messages.
State housing-finance, homebuyer, rental, mortgage-relief, and housing-resource pathway - Virginia; program, income, lender, property, and application rules apply
Virginia Housing
Virginia Housing offers statewide housing programs and information. Use it as a navigation resource and verify current eligibility, participating providers, and application requirements.
Statewide civil-legal-information and legal-aid navigation pathway - Virginia; topic, income, location, and provider rules apply
Virginia Law Help
Virginia Law Help helps residents identify legal-aid and low-cost civil-legal pathways for housing, benefits, family, health, and consumer issues.
Free civil legal-aid pathway for housing, benefits, safety, utilities, health, and other poverty-law matters - eligible Hampton Roads clients; income, conflict, intake, and case-acceptance rules apply
Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia
Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia provides free civil legal services for eligible low-income residents in Hampton Roads, including Portsmouth. Confirm current intake and eligibility; it is not emergency dispatch.
Regional bus, light rail, ferry, rideshare, and paratransit pathway - Portsmouth and Hampton Roads; route, fare, reservation, and service-area rules apply
Hampton Roads Transit
Hampton Roads Transit serves Portsmouth with regional bus, ferry, rideshare, and specialized transportation options. Confirm current routes, fares, schedules, and service rules before relying on a trip.
ADA paratransit reservation and eligibility pathway - Hampton Roads; disability certification, application, reservation, fare, and service-area rules apply
Hampton Roads Transit ADA Paratransit
HRT provides ADA paratransit information for eligible riders. Apply and confirm eligibility, reservations, pickup windows, and destinations before scheduling a trip.
Meals, transportation, caregiver, in-home, aging, and independent-living pathway - Southeastern Virginia; age, disability, income, referral, and program rules apply
Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia
Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia supports older adults and caregivers through meals, transportation, in-home services, and resource navigation. Ask whether a current Portsmouth-area program fits the household.
City streets, stormwater, neighborhood infrastructure, bulk-item, and public-works pathway - Portsmouth residents; schedule, material, set-out, service-area, and response rules apply
Portsmouth Public Works
Portsmouth Public Works maintains city infrastructure and publishes current service information. Verify the correct route for bulk items, stormwater, street, or neighborhood concerns before a cleanup or disposal project.
City trash, recycling, collection, waste-disposal, and service-schedule pathway - Portsmouth residents; material, schedule, set-out, service-area, and response rules apply
Portsmouth Waste Management
Portsmouth Waste Management provides current information about trash, recycling, and collection changes. Confirm the correct disposal route before setting out household contents or bulky materials.
City water, wastewater, stormwater, billing, outage, and utility-service pathway - Portsmouth customers; account, payment, service, outage, and emergency rules apply
Portsmouth Public Utilities
Portsmouth Public Utilities provides water, wastewater, stormwater, billing, and customer-service information. Confirm current billing, assistance, outage, and emergency routes.
Utility-bill, energy-assistance, Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, and income-support navigation pathway - Portsmouth and Virginia; program, income, account, and application rules apply
Portsmouth Financial Assistance
Portsmouth's financial-assistance information connects residents with PIPP, energy assistance, Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, and other programs. Confirm current eligibility, documents, and application steps.
Public community-college, workforce, adult-education, training, and student-support pathway - Hampton Roads residents; admission, tuition, aid, and program rules apply
Tidewater Community College Portsmouth Campus
Tidewater Community College provides education, workforce, and training pathways through its Portsmouth campus and regional programs. Confirm current programs, tuition, financial aid, and enrollment requirements.
Workforce, job-search, training, resume, and employment-support pathway - Hampton Roads; eligibility, appointment, program, and funding rules apply
Virginia Career Works Hampton Roads
Virginia Career Works provides workforce and employment services for Hampton Roads residents. Confirm current locations, appointments, training eligibility, and available supports.
Veteran benefits, housing, behavioral-health, employment, and service-navigation pathway - Virginia veterans and eligible family members; military-service, benefit, and appointment rules apply
Virginia Department of Veterans Services
Virginia's veterans-services network can help eligible veterans and family members navigate benefits, housing, employment, behavioral health, and related supports.
State benefits, protective-services, child-care, energy, food, and social-service navigation pathway - Virginia; program, household, identity, and documentation rules apply
Virginia Department of Social Services
Virginia DSS provides statewide program information and links for benefits and protective services. Use Portsmouth Social Services for local intake when a city program is required.
State housing, community-development, rehabilitation, energy, and housing-resource pathway - Virginia; program, property, income, and application rules apply
Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
Virginia DHCD provides statewide housing and community-development information. Verify current program availability, local partners, eligibility, and application steps.
Official city department, permit, public-safety, utility, public-works, library, parks, resilience, and resident-navigation pathway - Portsmouth; service, jurisdiction, and application rules apply
Portsmouth City Services Directory
Portsmouth's official website connects residents with current city departments, contacts, permits, public works, utilities, libraries, parks, resilience, and public-safety pathways.
Neighborhood engagement, resident assistance, city concerns, civic connection, and service-navigation pathway - Portsmouth residents; neighborhood, service, and jurisdiction rules apply
Portsmouth Neighborhood and Community Services
Portsmouth's community and service pages connect residents with neighborhood, civic, and city-navigation resources. Confirm the right department and current request route for a concern.
Private-pay practical support and digital peer-support pathways - broader service area and online; cost, scope, consent, safety, and platform rules apply; not clinical or emergency care
The Peer Tree and Unburied
The Peer Tree and Unburied provide separate private-pay and digital peer-support pathways. Choose the option that fits the situation and confirm current scope, cost, access, and safety boundaries before relying on it.