CALL-IN CLINIC SCHEDULE Mondays: 10 am-12 pm Tuesdays: 9 am-12 pm Wednesdays: 2-5 pm

• For Spanish speakers/Para las mujeres Latinas: Los Miércoles: 2-4 pm

Thursdays: 5-7 pm  Fridays: 10 am-12 pm

One-on-one sessions with a counselor over the phone are offered free of charge during our call-in clinic hours. These sessions are designed to offer immediate, short-term assistance including:
Eligibility screenings for individual counseling and other services
Self-care assessment
Planning
Referral services
Education
Emotional support

Call-in clinics are not designed for crisis intervention. If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, please call 911, go to your nearest emergency room, or contact one of the crisis hotlines listed below:
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: (800) 273-8255, available 24/7
Region Ten Emergency Services: (434) 972-1800, available 24/7
Live Chat services available through Lifeline Chat

COVID-19 Response - #50forFood

Cville Community Cares is launching our second call for mutual aid, this time focused on feeding local community members.

In partnership with Sin Barreras, we are raising $50,000 for immediate distribution to residents who are experiencing food insecurity, including our undocumented neighbors. Stimulus checks are on their way but we know many will not get checks immediately or at all.  Join us in redistributing this wealth to our community members who need it most.

$50k for Food is a bridge fund to offer immediate groceries to our community. Our neighbors need to eat even while they are waiting for assistance from other programs. You can help bridge this gap.

We are looking for 50 donors to commit all or part of their stimulus check to these neighbors.

Donate here to become one of the 50. 

Our goal is to raise $50,000 to be distributed directly to regional families. Half of the funds will be turned into grocery gift cards which Sin Barreras will distribute to the many families who contact them daily in need of immediate help feeding children. The other half of the funds will be distributed through the Cville Community Cares network to neighbors, many in our adjacent rural areas, who are struggling to keep food on the table.

You came through with a wave of loving support a month ago, helping nearly 1000 families with direct aid. Let’s do more. Donate today!

Need financial assistance?

¿Necesita asistencia financiera?

Call / Llamenos 434-234-4490

Questions, concerns, and offers to help? Email CvilleCares@gmail.com

 We will take care of each other and get through this… together!

#CvilleCOVIDcare

"UVA Colleagues,

As President Ryan announced last week, the University has created an emergency assistance fund for employees and contracted workers. It provides employees of the University and associated organizations (such as foundations), as well as those who work for UVA’s major contractors, with financial resources to assist them during this emergency. 

The UVA Emergency Assistance Fund will cover reasonable and necessary expenses incurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A description of these expenses, as well as eligibility requirements, contractor firms included, and how to apply for assistance, is available on the UVA HR website. 

Anyone who wishes to contribute to the fund may do so at giving.virginia.edu. Employees have the option to give by payroll deduction. This is very easy to do, and you have the choice of donating to staff needing extra support, students, or health care workers.

If you have questions about the fund, please contact the HR Solution Center at AskHR@virginia.edu.

We greatly appreciate how everyone in our community has risen to this challenge, and we will continue to look for ways to offer support..." 

A Message from Kelley Stuck, Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Piedmont Housing Alliance has established an emergency assistance fund to provide financial relief to residents experiencing economic challenges due to the effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The situation and specific needs are constantly evolving and residents who face hardship in the coming weeks will be met with support to ensure that everyone maintains stable, healthy housing.

Your donation will go towards helping reduce the inevitable financial burden our residents will experience during this crisis..

We will get through this together.

Support Cville is an active resource of ways locals can help and get help.

Charlottesville Emergency Relief Fund for Artists

Since launching the Charlottesville Emergency Relief Fund for Artists with New City Arts on 3/20, we've received 111 applications from Charlottesville-area artists requesting a total of $28,750 in support. We have heard from artists whose exhibitions, performances, classes, book tours, concerts, market booths, and craft fairs have been cancelled, as well as artists who have lost other sources of income they rely on like their restaurant or catering gigs. As a reminder:

• Artists can request up to $300 to compensate for scheduled work that was scheduled and lost.

• Artists are eligible to apply for loss of income regardless of whether the income was from art or other jobs.

• Artists must live in the Charlottesville area including the city of Charlottesville or the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, or Nelson.

The fund was seeded with $6,000 from The FUNd at CACF and program support from each organization. Since then, the pool of funds has grown to $15,600 thanks to the generosity of 38 additional donors and 50% of proceeds from the Cville Porch Portraits project. We've heard from artists who have used the funds to buy groceries, pay bills, cover the cost of studio rental, and offer free classes to their students.

It has been utterly inspiring to see community members support Charlottesville's artists.

We continue to fulfill qualifying requests as quickly as we are able in the order they were received, but due to limited funds, we are only able to fulfill about 50% of requests at this time. Please consider expanding the pool of funds available to Charlottesville-area artists who have lost jobs.

If you would like to donate to expand the pool of emergency funds available to artists in need, you can: 

• Give here and designate “Charlottesville Emergency Relief Fund for Artists” in the memo line.

• If you would like to contribute to the Charlottesville Emergency Relief Fund for Artists through bank draft or check, please contact Maureen at maureen@newcityarts.org.

*Neither The Bridge nor New City Arts are keeping a percentage for administrative costs; all funds will be given to artists in need.

Mutual Aid Infrastructure - Charlottesville

The United Way Covid-19 Crisis Relief Fund 

As with most of these disruptive events, our most vulnerable community members will be impacted the most, with even greater economic, income and childcare challenges than what they face on a regular basis. The United Way Covid-19 Crisis Relief Fund is designed to provide emergency help for those who are most in need within Charlottesville and our surrounding counties.

Your gift will go to help families with children, and other community members with limited or no access to emergency funds.

Each of these local populations may experience both short and long-term severe financial hardship and loss of resources from this unprecedented pandemic. 

Funds may be used to help families pay for utilities, rent, food and other critical household needs still unmet by public and private resources.

Volunteer Sign-up for Lunch Distribution and Food Donations

Welcome to UVA StudCo's mutual aid network. We have three forms:

1) Non-Monetary Resources Donation Form (i.e. housing, transportation, storage, food, etc.)
2) Monetary Resources Donation Form (i.e. $$, travel vouchers, frequent flyer miles, etc.)
3) Monetary Resource Request Form

Please fill out the first two forms if you are able to DONATE and offer critical resources to students in need.

Please fill out the last form if you need to request MONETARY RESOURCES or travel assistance. UVA StudCo will pair you with a donor and offer up to $100 of assistance.

If you need non-monetary resources (housing, transportation, etc.), please refer to the public spreadsheet with resources posted. Please reach out to the donor with the resources you need. They are here to help!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please reach out to Isabella Liu at (415) 660-8319 or email igl7ph@virginia.edu.

(1) 150 words or less...It's important to help others because…

(2) List 5 things you have done or can do to help someone. 

There will be 4 winners, in grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. The winners will receive a cash prize of $100.00 presented on May 14,2020. 

Send entries to:
Alex-Zan/My Help List 
509 Rougemont Ave
Charlottesville,VA 22902

It is hard to tell at this stage of the pandemic. What has changed for most of us is Gov. Ralph Northam’s Executive Order 55 (Temporary Stay at Home Order Due to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)). We have more time to sit with our thoughts, reflect and even brood over the global and local situations.

For those of us working towards a healthy climate and environmental justice, the high vulnerability of people of color, especially for the African American, Native American, and Latino communities, to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is just one of the inevitable outcomes we anticipated. Those who have spent any time learning about racial inequalities know that crises, whether the climate crisis or the COVID crisis, amplify inequality and have the potential to deepen the cracks and fractures among us..."