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Social Service Providers

   Click any category below to find the agencies and organizations featured on this website, which are a small percentage of those found in our books.  Location, phone number, and link to website are provided. 

   The complete list of all agencies and organizations in each category, with far more detail on each, may be found in our print and CD directories. 

Adoption/Foster Care
AIDS/S
exually Transmitted Diseases
Battered Persons/Victim/Adult Abuse
Camps/Day/Residential/Special
Child Abuse Prevention/Treatment Child Care
Consumer Resources & Assistance
Correctional/Prison/Probation
Counseling/Mental Health/
Anger Management

 

Disabled/Special Ed/Rehabilitation
Disaster/Safety/Environment
Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco Addictions
Eating Disorders and Food Addictions

Emergency Assistance/Basic Needs
Emergency Assistance/Soup Kitchens
Employment Placement/Job Training

Ethnic/Cultural/Translations
Family Planning/Pregnancy/Child Birth
Financial/Budgets/Emergency Funds
Health Care/Medical/Health Assns

Hospice/Grief Support
Hospitals (Medical & Psychiatric)

 

Homeless Resources & Programs
Hotlines/Info & Referral
Housing/Assistance/Tenant Rights
Housing/Low Income/HUD
Immigration/Refugee Programs
Legal Assistance
Libraries
Literacy/ESL Programs

LGBT Resources & Programs
Parenting Resources/Education

Pregnant and Parenting Teens
Self-Help/Support Groups
Senior/Home Care/Infusion Therapy


Senior/Housing

Senior/Multiple Services

Senior/Nutrition Services
Transportation
Veteran/Military Services
Volunteer Opportunities
Youth/Anti-Gang
Youth/High-Risk

Youth/Recreation/Activities

Youth/Shelters

Youth/Transition/Emancipation



“The Rainbow Guide has helped our agency by providing our clients with updated information on anything from a place to obtain food to finding after-school programs.”

     Glen Sato, Little Tokyo Service
     Center, Customer since 1994

“It is wonderful to be able to access resources for families and staff.  I work with mostly low-income families and it is increasingly difficult to find help for these families.  The Rainbow Guide is always my first place to look.”

     Lynn Hammeras,
     UCI Infant Toddler Center
     Customer since 1979

“The Rainbow Guide is the one source that we use on a daily basis.”

     Theresa Murphy,
     Precious Life Shelter

“The Rainbow Guide is used to assist clients with information on local shelters, places for food, affordable health clinics, etc.”

     Grace Valencia,
     Anaheim Workforce Center
     Customer since 1989

“The Rainbow Guides are a critical tool for locating social services.  We use them every day.”

     Arthur Romo,
     Substance Abuse Foundation

“We consider the Rainbow Guide essential to the high quality of services that we maintain and provide to Orange County residents.”

     Mel Roth,
     Jewish Family Service of
     Orange County
     Customer since 1984

“I don’t know what we’d do without the Rainbow Guide.  It is our lifeline to other agencies and organizations.”

     Mary Weaver,
     Friends Outside/L.A. County
     Customer since 1993

“The Rainbow Directory is the best guide to what is available in the county.”

     Lydia Dona,
     Orange Coast Interfaith Shelter
     Customer since 1981

“For referrals it is imperative that we have current and accurate information.”

     Lissa Callaghan, Casa Teresa
     Customer since 1997

“The Rainbow Guide is the leading hands-on referral guide for helping families obtain services.”

     Jerry O’Day, Ph.D.,
     Organization Facilitator,
     Los Angeles Unified School
     District, Local District 8

 

 
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How to find people who can help

Provide better referrals with these comprehensive, reliable,
and affordable social services directories



Quickly find local shelters, places for food, health clinics, help with addictions, and many more types of California social welfare organizations.  Since 1979 the Rainbow Resource Directories have been helping agencies steer needy clients to:

  • Adoption/Foster Care

  • AIDS/Sexually Transmitted Diseases

  • Battered Persons/Victim/Adult Abuse

  • Camps/Day/Residential/Special

  • Child Abuse Prevention/Treatment

  • Child Care

  • Consumer Resources and Assistance

  • Correctional/Prison/Probation

  • Counseling/Mental Health/Anger Management

  • Disabled/Special Ed/Rehabilitation

  • Disaster/Safety/Environment

  • Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco/Addictions

  • Eating Disorders & Food Addictions

  • Emergency Assistance/Basic Needs

  • Emergency Assistance/Soup Kitchens

  • Employment Placement/Job Training

  • Ethnic/Cultural/Translations

  • Family Planning/Pregnancy/Child Birth

  • Financial/Budgets/Emergency Funds

  • Health Care/Medical/Health Associations

  • Homeless Resources and Programs

  • Hospice/Grief Support 

  • Hospitals (Medical & Psychiatric)

  • Hotlines/Information and Referral

  • Housing/Assistance/Tenant Rights

  • Housing/Low Income/HUD  

  • Immigration/Refugee Programs

  • Legal Assistance

  • Libraries

  • Literacy/ESL Programs

  • LGBT Resources & Programs

  • Parenting Resources/Education

  • Pregnant and Parenting Teens

  • Self-Help/Support Groups

  • Senior/Home Care/Infusion Therapy

  • Senior/Housing

  • Senior/Multiple Services

  • Senior/Nutrition Services

  • Transportation

  • Veteran/Military Services

  • Volunteering Opportunities

  • Youth/Anti-Gang Resources

  • Youth/High Risk

  • Youth/Recreation/Activities

  • Youth/Shelters

  • Youth/Transition/Emancipation

 


Reliable and detailed

    All of the data in the Rainbow Resource Directories is verified annually by telephone, with our staff making thousands of calls for each directory.  Each of the 20,000 social service listings contains the following information:
 

  • Type of service provided

  • Source of funding

  • Admission requirements

  • Languages spoken

  • Address

  • Phone and fax

  • Office hours

  • Region served

 

Los Angeles & Ventura Counties
Rainbow Resource Directory 

Published annually with over 10,000 listings.
Read more.       $69   


Orange County
Rainbow Re
source Directory

Published annually with over 5,000 listings.
Read more.        $49   

Riverside & San Bernardino Counties 

Rainbow Resource Directory
Published annually with  over 5,000 listings.
Read more.     $49   


California Rainbow Resource Directory on CD
Published twice-annually with 20,000 listings. 
One year subscription (two CDs).
Read more.     $129 

Click here for a printable version of our brochure (only 4 pages)

Questions? Call us at (800) 440-4780 


Used daily by a variety of professionals

   People in a wide range of service organizations have found the Rainbow Resource Directories essential to their jobs, with many telling us they open their Guides every workday.

  • Educators

  • Government offices

  • Healthcare professionals

  • Law enforcement personnel

  • Psychologists

  • Senior centers

  • Social workers


Why do we call them Rainbow Resource Directories?

    Just like a rainbow delights viewers with its color spectrum, our directories deliver the full range of social services.  Virtually every category of social welfare organization, from adoption to youth shelters, is comprehensively covered with dozens of local listings.

    Each listing contains about 15 lines of concisely delivered “what and where” information: the service provided, region served, admission requirements, languages spoken, address and phone, and more.


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Updated 08/09/11 
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