Kentucky resource guide
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Clear, practical guidance to help you navigate Kentucky resources, with coverage limits shown on resource pages.
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Search Kentucky resources
Search by what you need or use a common starting point. Availability can change, so call to confirm before you travel.
Four fast lanes
Start with a common goal
These four preparation guides stay easy to find even as the full journey catalog grows.
- Goal 1Get an IDOrganize what you have, identify what is missing, and prepare questions before you travel.Start preparing →
- Goal 2Apply for SNAPPrepare questions, organize agency messages, and find food options while a decision is pending.Start preparing →
- Goal 3Get or Keep MedicaidApply, renew, check current coverage and plan benefits, and keep immediate care moving while a decision is unresolved.Start preparing →
- Goal 4Start the Housing ProcessSeparate immediate safety, prevention, and longer housing processes without implying placement.Start preparing →
These pages prepare questions and next steps. They do not submit an application or decide eligibility.
I’m not sure where to start
Choose your story
Pick the situation closest to what is happening. Each journey gives plain-language preparation steps and opens a matching resource search.
- My wallet was lost or stolen.Secure what may be exposed, inventory what is missing, and rebuild access one issuing organization at a time.Open this journey
- I am behind on rent.Preserve notices, identify the stage of the housing problem, and contact legal and assistance resources without assuming an outcome.Open this journey
- My utilities may be shut off.Read the notice, protect immediate health and safety, and pursue provider and assistance routes without assuming funds or reconnection.Open this journey
- I do not have a working phone.Restore a safe way to communicate, protect accounts tied to a missing device, and plan longer-term access.Open this journey
- I am leaving treatment soon.Turn discharge instructions into a written first-day plan for care, medication, transportation, communication, and a safe place to stay.Open this journey
- I was recently released from jail or prison.Organize release obligations, identity, communication, food, housing, care, and employment into separate trackable next steps.Open this journey
- The hospital is discharging me and I do not have a stable place to stay.Prepare a written discharge plan that addresses care, medication, mobility, transportation, communication, and a safe destination.Open this journey
- It is not safe for me to go home.Prioritize immediate safety, safer communication, confidential support, and separate legal and housing questions.Open this journey
- I am sleeping outside tonight.Start with immediate safety and confirmed options, then preserve a path into longer-term housing navigation.Open this journey
- I lost my job.Stabilize urgent needs, preserve employment records, and separate benefit, job-search, and creditor conversations.Open this journey
Need a different situation? Browse all 21 journeys.
Where are you right now?
Choose your door
Pick the situation closest to yours. There is no wrong door — every one opens onto every resource.
- I Need Help Right NowTonight matters mostUrgent shelter, food, medical care, and crisis support — without panic clutter.Walk through →
- I’m At Risk Of Losing HousingKeep the door you haveRent help, eviction and legal aid, utility assistance, and prevention.Walk through →
- I’m Looking For HousingToward a key of your ownAffordable housing, vouchers, applications, deposits, and supportive housing.Walk through →
- I Have Housing But Need HelpKeep it steadyFood, utilities, health, transportation, employment, and everyday stability.Walk through →
Helping someone else? Any door works — case managers and family use the same paths.
Not sure where to start?
Answer up to three private, button-only questions to find guides, official starting points, and forms for your next step. You can choose several needs or skip what you don’t know.
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Search the directory
Search by service, organization, or category. You can refine location and population filters on the results page.
New public library
Find the form. Check the source. Start with less uncertainty.
Official benefit, identity, health care, and housing starting points—with the owning agency and NOLO’s most recent link check shown up front.
Browse the forms library- Search by the name you know
- See the agency and source date
- Know what happens when you leave NOLO
Why No One Left Outside
The system is complicated. Finding help shouldn't be.
No One Left Outside helps people navigate housing, food, healthcare, identification, employment, legal aid, benefits, recovery, transportation, and the other human-service systems that stand between someone and stability.
We can't promise every door will open. Eligibility, availability, and acceptance are always the provider's call, never ours.
- We can help people better understand their options.
- We can help people prepare before they call or show up.
- We can reduce dead ends by showing what's actually current.
- We can preserve progress instead of making people start over.
- We can make the system easier to navigate, one door at a time.
What No One Left Outside is today
Search housing and community resources for Kentucky and Indiana, including food, healthcare, legal assistance, crisis services, transportation, employment, and more.
No One Left Outside is actively expanding. Listings keep being checked against their sources, and new features are added regularly.
Found missing or incorrect information? Help improve No One Left Outside.
No account needed
What brings you here?
Choose the path that best fits. Each one leads to a working public tool.
- I need helpSearch housing and community resources without creating an account.
- I am helping someoneUse the same public directory to compare options and contact providers.
- I provide servicesSuggest a missing program or send updated provider information for review.
- I want to improve the directoryReport incorrect, incomplete, duplicate, accessibility, or safety information.
No invented numbers
Our coverage, honestly
Each category shows how complete our listings are today. Listings change, so call to confirm before you go.
- Affordable HousingListings in this category
- Supplemental FoodListings in this category
- Mental HealthListings in this category
- Rent AssistanceListings in this category
- Medical ResourcesListings in this category
- Youth ServicesListings in this category
- Primary CareListings in this category
- Substance Use and RecoveryListings in this category
- Utility AssistanceListings in this category
- Emergency ShelterListings in this category
- Vision CareListings in this category
- Domestic ViolenceListings in this category
- EmploymentListings in this category
- Phone and Internet AssistanceListings in this category
- Legal ResourcesListings in this category
- Veteran ResourcesListings in this category
- Community SupportListings in this category
- Housing NavigationListings in this category
- Senior ResourcesListings in this category
- Transitional HousingListings in this category
- Disability ResourcesListings in this category
- ClothingListings in this category
- TransportationListings in this category
- Permanent Supportive HousingListings in this category
- Identification DocumentsListings in this category
- Landlord Repair ProgramsGrowing coverage
- Furniture and Household GoodsGrowing coverage
- Dental CareListings in this category
- Faith-Based AssistanceGrowing coverage
- Financial AssistanceListings in this category
- Emergency and CrisisGrowing coverage
- Reentry & JusticeGrowing coverage
- Eviction PreventionGrowing coverage
- Security Deposit AssistanceGrowing coverage
- Birth CertificatesListings in this category
- ChildcareGrowing coverage
- Documents BenefitsListings in this category
- Family SupportListings in this category
- Financial StabilityGrowing coverage
- Harm ReductionGrowing coverage
- Homeownership ProgramsGrowing coverage
- Housing StabilityGrowing coverage
- KTAP TANFListings in this category
- MedicaidListings in this category
- Medicare SHIPGrowing coverage
- Move In AssistanceGrowing coverage
- ShowersGrowing coverage
- SNAPListings in this category
- WICGrowing coverage
Help by Kentucky county
County matches are approximate. Each page also links to Kentucky starting points.
Choose your county
- Adair County
- Allen County
- Anderson County
- Ballard County
- Barren County
- Bath County
- Bell County
- Boone County
- Bourbon County
- Boyd County
- Boyle County
- Bracken County
- Breathitt County
- Breckinridge County
- Bullitt County
- Butler County
- Caldwell County
- Calloway County
- Campbell County
- Carlisle County
- Carroll County
- Carter County
- Casey County
- Christian County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Clinton County
- Crittenden County
- Cumberland County
- Daviess County
- Edmonson County
- Elliott County
- Estill County
- Fayette County
- Fleming County
- Floyd County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Gallatin County
- Garrard County
- Grant County
- Graves County
- Grayson County
- Green County
- Greenup County
- Hancock County
- Hardin County
- Harlan County
- Harrison County
- Hart County
- Henderson County
- Henry County
- Hickman County
- Hopkins County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Jessamine County
- Johnson County
- Kenton County
- Knott County
- Knox County
- Larue County
- Laurel County
- Lawrence County
- Lee County
- Leslie County
- Letcher County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Livingston County
- Logan County
- Lyon County
- McCracken County
- McCreary County
- McLean County
- Madison County
- Magoffin County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Martin County
- Mason County
- Meade County
- Menifee County
- Mercer County
- Metcalfe County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- Muhlenberg County
- Nelson County
- Nicholas County
- Ohio County
- Oldham County
- Owen County
- Owsley County
- Pendleton County
- Perry County
- Pike County
- Powell County
- Pulaski County
- Robertson County
- Rockcastle County
- Rowan County
- Russell County
- Scott County
- Shelby County
- Simpson County
- Spencer County
- Taylor County
- Todd County
- Trigg County
- Trimble County
- Union County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Whitley County
- Wolfe County
- Woodford County
No invented numbers
How we label what we know
Listings have status labels. Where we have them, we show safe public sources and check dates. A website check is NOLO reading the provider’s own website, not the provider confirming a listing. Missing details stay UNKNOWN. Ask the provider about current help.
- Source indicates active
- Possibly active
- Needs verification
- Closed — do not refer
How this place works
Built in the open
- We show our sources
- We preserve UNKNOWN
- We never guess
- We welcome corrections
Sources and check dates
Where we have evidence and a check date that are safe to share, we show them. Missing evidence is labeled needs verification or UNKNOWN.
Built for Kentucky and Indiana
Focused on Kentucky and Indiana, with local coverage described plainly as the directory grows.
Closed programs stay listed
Marked “do not refer” instead of deleted, so nobody gets sent to a locked door.
Nobody’s tracking you
No account to browse. No tracking profiles or ad pixels. Only first-party aggregate counters, with safety pages excluded.
Found something we got wrong?
A dead number, a wrong hours line, a program that folded. Flagging it takes a minute, and you don’t need an account. Every report goes to a human review queue.
Helping someone professionally?
Case managers, outreach workers, librarians, and providers can use the public directory without signing in. Guides offer printable packets with contact routes, hours where known, documents, questions, and backup steps. Check the sources and dates before you use them.
NOLO stores nothing about the person you are helping. The packet has blank lines to write on; that is the whole client-data model. If you know a listing has changed, send it to the human review queue.
Questions about listings
Does a listing mean a program can help me today?
A listing is a starting point. It does not establish current capacity, an open appointment or eligibility. Confirm details with the program before you go; each program decides who qualifies.
Source: How NOLO checks listings; checked 2026-10-07.
What if a listing has missing information?
Missing or uncertain details remain unknown. A useful, safe contact route can stay listed while individual fields need more evidence.
Source: How NOLO checks listings; checked 2026-10-07.
How can I suggest a correction?
Use Report a change and include the listing link, the fields that need correcting and a public source. A submission proposes a correction for review; it does not publish changes. Do not include client records or confidential locations.
Source: How NOLO checks listings; checked 2026-10-07.