Real, checked-out help for young parents and young families across the South Coast: health, school, housing, money, baby basics, safety, and your rights. Welcoming and affirming for every family, no exceptions.
Becoming a parent young is hard enough. Doing it while LGBTQ+, or while your family is not in your corner, can feel like there is nowhere that is actually for you. This hub is. Everything here is for every young parent on the South Coast, and it is built so that queer, trans, and nonbinary parents, two-mom and two-dad families, and young dads find themselves in it too. No judgment, no hoops, free.
This hub is run through the Network's Elevate LGBTQ+ Youth program: free case management, home visiting, and mentoring for LGBTQ+ youth and their families through age 24. So behind every link there is a real person on the South Coast who can help you sort out what to do next, no pressure and no cost. We help you find the right door. We do not replace your doctor, lawyer, or caseworker.
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Care for you and your baby, before and after birth, from places that take MassHealth and will not turn you away if you cannot pay.
From the day you find out through your baby's first year. Tap any stage. Nothing here is saved.
Food, diapers, and benefits you may already qualify for. Many young parents qualify and never apply.
A rough guide, not a decision. We do not save any of your answers.
This tool only suggests programs to look into based on what you tap. It is not an eligibility decision. The programs decide who qualifies. We do not collect or store anything you enter.
If you get TAFDC, MassHealth, or SNAP, you automatically qualify for WIC. Find your local office:
Couch-surfing, about to lose your housing, or not safe where you are? Start here.
You can finish school, you have rights, and your baby has free support too.
Most teen-parent programs forget dads exist. This one does not. And for two-mom, two-dad, and trans parents, we point you to people who handle parentage right.
Free, confidential help lines. Every number here is current and checked.
Free to download, print, and share. Hand them out, put them on a fridge, or keep one in your bag. Every number on them is checked.
The one-page handout. Top resources for every need, plus crisis lines, on a single sheet.
Download PDF ↓The full list of verified local programs across every category.
Download PDF ↓What your school cannot do, and what you can ask for, as a pregnant or parenting student.
Download PDF ↓MassHealth, WIC, SNAP, and TAFDC, what each one is and how to get it.
Download PDF ↓A simple safety plan and confidential hotlines, affirming for every survivor.
Download PDF ↓For trans, nonbinary, and two-parent families: care, parentage, and finding your people.
Download PDF ↓What a baby actually needs, safe-sleep basics, and where to get gear free.
Download PDF ↓These guides will be available in Spanish, Portuguese, Cape Verdean Kriolu, and K'iche'.
Tell us what is going on and we will help you find the right door: health, school, housing, money, or just someone to talk to. Free, confidential, and for every family.
South Coast LGBTQ+ Network · 1213 Purchase Street, New Bedford · New Bedford & Fall River 774-775-2656 · Taunton 508-264-0584
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