Independent Living Skills

COMMUNITY SERVICES

For counseling, food assistance, health care, housing, legal assistance, transportation, and much more, call 2-1-1 for help in finding the services you need, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Community Action of Ventura County provides housing, food, employment, family, and legal services.

EMPLOYMENT

• Ventura County One-Stop Job & Career Centers: For information about finding work, preparing resumes and more.
• California Department of Rehabilitation, Vocational Rehabilitation Services:
• Oxnard-Ventura branch: (805) 385-2400
• Thousand Oaks branch: (805) 371-6279
• Watch Mental Health Works' “Working Through It” video
• Also see How to Talk About Mental Illness

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WITH HEALTHCARE

• Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare
• The Medicine Program provides patient assistance with the enrollment process in drug assistance programs.
• Needymeds, a non-profit information resource helps people find assistance programs to help them afford medications and health care costs.
• The Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage find public or private programs that can help them get the medication they need.
• RxAssist offers a comprehensive database of patient assistance programs, as well as practical tools, news, and articles.
• A list of drug companies that offer assistance programs: NAMI Patient Prescription Drug Assistance Programs