Healthy Start / Healthy Families

Healthy Start/Healthy Families has expanded its income requirements to include more working families in need of health care coverage. Program services include a wide variety of medical services, dental, vision, mental health, drug and alcohol treatment, prescriptions, prenatal care, child care and temporary financial help.

If you would like more local information on any of these program services, please call (330) 643-7811 or visit

Summit County Department of Job & Family Services
Sojourner Truth Building, 37 N. High Street, Akron, OH 44308
or click here- http://www.co.summit.oh.us

WIC http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic
Food, nutrition counseling and access to health services are provided to low-income women, infants and children under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, popularly known as WIC.

United Way http://www.uwsummit.org
Supporting local health and human service not-for-profit agencies through annual campaign. This website includes a listing of 51 Summit County nonprofit agencies.

Harvest for Hunger http://www.harvestforhunger.org
Official website for Harvest for Hunger, a regional food and fund drive which helps to feed the hungry in Northeast Ohio.

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