Raymond Coalition for Youth knows the value of connecting resources. We work hard to find community partners that can help connect the community with valuable information and resources. If you are looking for more information on any topic that isn’t listed, we invite you to connect with us and we will work to get that information to you.
PLEASE NOTE: During the COVID-19 Outbreak, a lot of changes are happening. Please bear with us as we update information on this page as soon as we are able. Please visit our COVID-19 Resource Page that is being updated daily. We thank you for your patience!
For NH Information and Referrals dial 2-1-1
2-1-1 NH is the connection for New Hampshire residents to the most up to date resources they need from specially trained Information and Referral Specialists. 2-1-1 NH is available 24 hours, 365 days a year.
Multilingual assistance and TDD access is also available.
Those residing outside of New Hampshire, call 1.866.444.4211.
For Immediate Assistance, contact:
Here is a copy of our Raymond Coalition For Youth Community Resources Guide. This information is updated annually to ensure it is accurate and correct. Please feel free to share this guide electronically, or make copies to share. If you would like hard copies for your location please contact our office and we can bring some by.
The Raymond School District is offering free emergency breakfast & lunch meals to K-12 students in our community during school's closure due to COVID-19:
What people with a substance use disorder need to know about COVID-19
New Hampshire Recovery Hub: New Hampshire Recovery Hub is a resource for people who are curious about, entering, or sustaining recovery from substance use disorders. is aimed at assembling all of the information in one spot and letting people know it has the seal of approval from state officials. This website launched in May, 2018, and is a partnership between the NH Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services and peer recovery services at Harbor Homes
Seacoast Family Support Group - Providing peer support to adult family members with a loved one afflicted by Substance Use Disorder. In 2020, Meetings happen on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. For any questions on the Family Support Group meetings, please call 603-731-4227
Families First: Support for families...health care for all
Holding various support groups in the Seabrook/Portsmouth areas. Click on this picture for more information:
Raymond High School Students - Assistance is available to you & your families, right at the school. Contact Mrs. Angela Fallon, the RHS Social Worker.
Family Support Groups in New Hampshire
Provided by Granite Pathways.
Contact Lynn Fuller, Family Support Coordinator for the state of New Hampshire, with questions, or to start a support group in your area.
QUIT VAPING -
Resources and tools available to help teens quit vaping
Live Free Recovery offers a comprehensive approach to treating adolescents with a substance use disorder. Locations in Newton, NH, and Rochester, NH. Contact them at (603) 563-0061, or info@livefreerecovery.com
Is there a young woman in your life who is pregnant and misusing or addicted to opioids? Perhaps it’s your daughter or granddaughter, your son’s girlfriend or wife, a niece or a friend. Here you’ll find information to help her have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.
South Central NH Public Health Network: How Addiction Affects the Brain
The Truth About ACEs: Learn about what Adverse Childhood Experiences are and the impact they have. View the video presentation from our October 11, 2018, monthly meeting, by the Manchester NH ACERT Team.
Assistance & Resources by Category
ABUSE
SAFE: Stop Abuse For Everyone, a Human Rights Agency - bringing awareness to underserved victims.
DCYF (NH Department of Health and Human Services, Division for Children, Youth & Families): to report abuse, call: (800) 894-5533
Haven NH - Providing support services and prevention education to those impacted by domestic and sexual violence.
NH Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence:
24-Hour Domestic Violence Hotline: (866) 644-3574,
24-Hour Sexual Assault Hotline: (800) 277-5570
ALCOHOL/DRUG ABUSE
Alcoholics Anonymous: (603) 622-6967, (800) 593-3330, e-mail: office@nhaa.net
Al-Anon / Alateen: If you have someone you know or love and their drinking is affecting you, Al-Anon can help, (877) 825-2666, or (603) 369-6930 (answering service). Click the picture below for a current list, as of November 2019, of Al-Anon meetings in NH, which includes Alateen meetings also.
Alcohol Addiction Resource Center
Breathe NH: (603) 669-2411, (800) 835-8647
Drug Abuse Hotline: (800) 888-9383
Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free
Narcotics Anonymous (NA): Program focuses on addiction, obsessive-compulsive behavior and recovery from it, not drug-specific. Call: (603) 645-4777, List of local meetings in the seacoast area.
New Futures: Offers a substance abuse support group, Call: (603) 382-6541 x227
nhtreatment.org: Offers substance misuse information
NH Tobacco Resource Center: (800) 894-5533
Quit Now NH: (800) 879-8678 (Quit Line)
CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT; CHILD CARE
Easter Seals: (603) 895-1522, (603) 623-8863
Rockingham Community Action: Raymond: (603) 895-2303
Southern New Hampshire Services, Inc.: Toll-Free: (800) 322-1073 | Local: (603) 668-8010 | Hearing Impaired: (800) 877-8339
COUNSELING SERVICES
Catholic Charities of NH: (800) 562-5292
Child & Family Services (Exeter area): (603) 772-3786
The Counseling Center: (603) 627-3111
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester: (603) 668-4111
NAMI New Hampshire InfoLine (800) 242-6264, message info@NAMINH.org
Seacoast Mental Health: Providing Hope. Promoting Recovery: (603) 772-2710
CRISIS HOTLINES
NH State Services: 2-1-1
Seacoast Outright: (603) 552-5824
Headrest Teen Line: (800) 639-6095
EATING DISORDERS
National Eating Disorders Association Helpline: (800) 931-2237
Center for Eating Disorders Management (Bedford, NH): (603) 472-2846
Project Heal: Project HEAL provides access to healing for all people with eating disorders.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Addiction Policy Forum: Addiction Policy Forum is working to eliminate addiction as a major health problem in the following areas: Helping Patients and Families in Crisis, Improving Treatment, Prevention, Raising Awareness and Promoting Education and Advocacy.
Children's Hospital at Dartmouth: Teen driver website is www.nhteendrivers.com, and traffic safety website is www.trafficsafety4nh.org.
Dudley Tucker Library (Raymond): (603) 895-7057
Family Resource Connection, NH Children's Behavioral Health Collaborative: (800) 298-4321
Families First: Support for families...health care for all, (603) 422-8208
Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) - NH: (603) 647-2300
Raymond Head Start: (603) 244-2937
Salvation Army (Manchester area): (603) 627-7013
Seacoast School of Technology: (603) 775-8461
YMCA (Exeter): (603) 642-3361
EMPLOYMENT
NH Employment Security - Services for Job Seekers
NH Employment Security, Manchester office: (603) 627-7841
NH Works
FOOD ASSISTANCE
The Raymond School District is offering free emergency breakfast & lunch meals to K-12 students in our community during school's closure due to COVID-19:
Raymond Food Pantry, 55 Prescott Rd., Raymond, NH: (603) 895-2303
Seacoast Family Food Pantry: (603) 436-0641
NH Food Stamp Program: (800) 852-3345, ext. 9700
Women, Infants & Children (WIC): (800) 256-9880
NH Housing: (800) 640-7239
FAMILY SUPPORT
Families Anonymous: (800) 736-9805
Families First: Support for families...health care for all, (603) 422-8208
Keep Hope Alive Family Support Group (Raymond): Ann (603) 731-4227 or Tom (603) 731-1523
NH Samaritan Crisis Hotline: (866) 457-2910
Rockingham Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice Care: (603) 772-2981
UNH Cooperative Extension: (603) 862-1520
Waypoint (formerly Child & Family Services) Parent Line: (800) 640-6486
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Consumer Credit - Credit Counseling Professionals: (800) 769-3571
Health & Human Services (844) 275-3447
Southern NH Services, Inc. - The Community Action Program for Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties: (800) 322-1073
Step Up Parents - Step Up Parents provides financial assistance to kinship caregivers in New Hampshire who are raising the children of parents with substance use disorder.
GRANDPARENT RESOURCES:
Families First: Support for families...health care for all, (603) 422-8208
Seacoast Grandparents Recharge Group
Here are two links to two brochures for possible financial and other support services:
https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dfa/documents/village.pdf
https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dfa/grandparent-resources/documents/grandfamilies.pdf
This is a respite resource for grandparents who just need a little break and can possibly help with childcare: https://www.nhcarepath.dhhs.nh.gov/partner-resources/documents/grandparent-handout.pdf
HEALTH
Lamprey Health Care: (603) 895-3351
New Hampshire Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): (800) 852-3345 ext. 4344
Nurse Advice Line: (844) 265-1278, TDD/TTY (855) 742-0123
Medicaid NH: (800) 852-3345
HOUSING / SHELTERS
Cross Roads House, Portsmouth: (603) 436-2218 (available 24/7)
Families in Transition: (603) 641-9441
Manchester Housing & Redevelopment Authority, Manchester: (603) 624-2100
My Friend’s Place, Dover: (603) 749-3017
New Generation, Greenland, (Pregnant women/Mothers with children only): (603) 436-4989
New Horizons For New Hampshire - Angie's Shelter For Women (for Women): (603) 668-8698
New Horizons For New Hampshire - New Horizons: (603) 668-1877
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
NH Legal Assistance: (800) 562-3174
Legal Advice/Referral Center: (800) 639-5290
NH Judicial Branch Self-Help Center
LOCAL ASSISTANCE
Emergency: 9-1-1
NH State Services: 2-1-1
Raymond Fire Department: (603) 895-3321
Raymond Police Department: (603) 895-4747
American Red Cross NH/VT: 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767)
Northern New England Poison Control: (800) 222-1222
Greater Raymond Area Chamber of Commerce: (603) 895-2254
MENTAL HEALTH ASSISTANCE (See COUNSELING above)
PREGNANCY HELP / BIRTH CONTROL / FAMILY PLANNING
Exeter Health Center: (603) 772-9315
Lamprey Healthcare: (603) 895-3351
Joan G. Lovering Health Center: (603) 436-7588
New Generation: (603) 436-4989
PARENTING
Families First: Support for families...health care for all, (603) 422-8208
Parent Line - Waypoint (formerly Child & Family Services): (800) 640-6486
Parent Information Center: (800) 947-7005
Persist: A support group for pregnant and parenting women in recovery from substance use. This free, weekly support group meets every Tuesday from 9:00 am-10:00 am in Haverhill, MA. Visit their website, or contact 978-992-8010.
POISON CONTROL
Northern New England Poison Control: (800) 222-1222
RECOVERY/TREATMENT
Addiction Recovery Services – Evidence-based treatment for substance use and co-occurring mental health symptoms. Portsmouth and Salem, NH locations. Intensive Outpatient Programs and Aftercare offered.
Crossroads Recovery Center is located in Salem, NH. You can contact their office at (603) 912-4490. You may also visit their website for more information.
Hope for NH Recovery: (603) 935-7524
The Farnum Center: Their Misson - "Helping individuals and families find their way to a life free of the effects of alcohol and other drugs through comprehensive treatment and recovery services open to all." Locations in Franklin and Manchester, NH. Contact: 1-888-840-4243.
GateHouse Treatment: GateHouse Treatment is one of the leading drug rehabs in NH. The drug treatment center is located in beautiful Nashua, New Hampshire, conveniently minutes from downtown Nashua. Their drug rehab in Nashua is an intimate setting with very individualized and focused care. For 24/7 Treatment Help, call: (855) 448-3588.
Persist: A support group for pregnant and parenting women in recovery from substance use. This free, weekly support group meets every Tuesday from 9:00 am-10:00 am in Haverhill, MA. Visit their website, or contact 978-992-8010.
RUNAWAYS
National Runaway Safeline: (800) 786-2929
SEXUAL IDENTITY
Seacoast Outright: (603) 431-1013
PFLAG: (800) 750-2524
The Trevor Project: (866) 488-7386
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
NH STD Prevention Program / Partner Services: (800) 852-3345
NH DHHS Infectious Disease Prevention, Investigation & Care Services: (603) 271-4502
NH AIDS Hotline: (800) 752-2437
SHELTERS (See Housing above)
SUICIDE & DEPRESSION
Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
Hampstead Hospital: (603) 329-5311
Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester: (603) 668-4111, Mobile Crisis Response: (800) 688-3544
Parkland Medical Center Behavioral Health Services, 24/7 Crisis and Referral Line: (603) 433-5270
Portsmouth Regional Hospital Behavioral Health Services: (603) 433-4980
TREATMENT: Visit our Treatment/Recovery Resources page
