Community Resource Guide

CJRD Comprehensive Resource Lists

Basic Need Resources (PDF)

Cold Weather Resources (PDF)

Hot Weather Resources (PDF)

Guía de Recursos del Condado de Orange (PDF in Spanish)

Orange County Resources Guide (PDF)

OC Connect Online Database (Community Empowerment Fund)

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Get Immediate Help (crisis and safety)

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

This page is designed to help states, territories, tribes, mental health and substance use disorder professionals, and others looking for information on understanding the background, history, funding opportunities, and implementation resources for strengthening suicide prevention and mental health crisis services

Chapel Hill Police Department Crisis Unit

The Crisis Unit is a 24-hour co-response team that provides onsite emergency response with officers to persons in crisis situations. Crises may include intimate partner or sexual violence, people in mental health crises, situations requiring safety planning, victims of crime, traumatic situations, stalking/harassment, or outreach to vulnerable people.

  • Phone: 919-968-2806
  • Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m., plus on-call response

Freedom House Mobile Crisis

24/7 mobile crisis response for behavioral health crises.

Phone: 866-275-9552

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Access to Naloxone in Orange County

If you or a person you spend time with is an opioid user, it can be useful to have a Naloxone (name band Narcan) kit available to reverse an opioid overdose. Naloxone works by blocking the opioid receptors and reversing the overdose. Narcan kits are available in a nasal spray (most common) or injectable and come with instructions and training.

Lantern Project, Orange County Criminal Justice Resource Department

CJRD's Lantern Project distributes Naloxone kits to justice involved individuals in Orange County. If you are a program participant, ask your social worker for a kit. If you are not a participant, contact us for information.

Local Pharmacies

You can purchase Naloxone (Narcan) and sterile syringes without a prescription at several local pharmacies:

  • Carrboro Family Pharmacy:  Carrboro Plaza, 104 NC-54 Suite J, Carrboro, NC 27510, (919) 933-7629
  • Hillsborough Pharmacy & Nutrition: 110 Boone Square St, Hillsborough, NC 27278, (919) 245-1212
  • Tarheel Town Pharmacy: 370 E Main St Ste. 160, Carrboro, NC 27510, (919) 240-7827
  • Walgreens on Environ Way off 54: 1106 Environ Way, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, (919) 942-8738

Naloxone Vending Machines

Vending machines dispense free naloxone kits, Fentanyl, and Xylazine test strips at two locations:

Orange County Detention Center - Open 24/7

  • Address: 1200 US 70 West, Hillsborough, NC (across from the DMV)

Orange County Southern Human Services -- Open Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm

  • Address: 2501 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill, NC

North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC)

The NCHRC offers Naloxone for the following groups of people: active IV drug users, people on medication-assisted treatment, people who are formerly incarcerated with a history of opiate use, people engaged in sex work or people who identify as transgender. If you fit these criteria and would like access to a kit, please contact Loftin Wilson at loftin@nchrc.org 

Orange County Emergency Services    

Community Naloxone (Narcan) is available from the EMS Division of Orange County Emergency Services by request or directly from an ambulance at the scene of an incident or in public.

To request Naloxone, contact:

Orange County Health Department

Free Naloxone kits and training, free package of 20 free sterile syringes and disposal bins for used syringes. Please call in advance: (919) 245-2400 and then press 2 for an appointment.

Available at two locations:

  • Whitted Building, 300 West Tryon St, Hillsborough, NC 27278
  • Southern Building, 2501 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Access to Safe Syringes in Orange County

NCDHHS North Carolina Safer Syringe Initiative

Includes information about existing syringe services programs in the state, resources for healthcare providers and law enforcement agencies, testing and treatment programs, and details about the limited immunity provided under the syringe exchange law.

Orange County Emergency Services  

Community sterile syringes, along with the ability to dispose of used syringes, is available from the EMS Division of Orange County Emergency Services by request or directly from an ambulance at the scene of an incident or in public. 

To request sterile syringes, contact:

Orange County Health Department

Offers a package of 20 free clean syringes for pickup and a disposal bin for used syringes. No appointment needed. Please note hours of operation can fluctuate, so call in advance at 919-245-2400 then press 2.

Student Health Action Coalition Syringe Services Program (SHAC SSP)

The SHAC team distributes harm reduction supplies including syringes, safe injection supplies, naloxone (narcan), fentanyl and xylazine test strips, and other harm reduction supplies and educational materials.

Distributions every Tuesday from 4:00pm-6:00pm at the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service: 110 W Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510

Distributions every Thursday from 5:30pm-6:30pm at the University United Methodist Church: 150 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

NC Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC)

Deliveries on Mondays: 1:00 – 6:00 pm, call/text/signal by noon on Mondays to set up a delivery

Mobile outreach on Wednesdays: 1:00 – 6:00 pm, call/text/signal for locations 

Drop-in hours on Fridays: 3:00 – 6:00 pm, Elizabeth St UMC (inside the office of Recovery Community of Durham), 1209 N. Elizabeth St, Durham, NC 27701 (knock or ring on Elizabeth St. door by the back parking lot.)

They offer the following services:

  • Sterile syringes and injection supplies
  • Safe syringe disposal and biohazard containers
  • Naloxone and overdose prevention training
  • Fentanyl tests for drug-checking
  • Safer sex supplies
  • Safer snorting and smoking supplies
  • Wound care and hygiene supplies
  • Peer support and linkage to care
  • Testing for HIV/HCV/HBV/syphilis
  • Masks and hand sanitizer

Contact: Loftin Wilson, 919-370-0671; loftin@nchrc.org

Safer Injection Advice from NC Harm Reduction Coalition

Starting Point Rural Harm Reduction Collective

Offers safe use kits including sterile syringes and biohazard boxes, fentanyl and xylazine test strips, and other harm reduction supplies and educational materials.

  • Mobile delivery is available 7 days a week. Call or Text 919-590-9512 for delivery anywhere in Orange County, NC
  • Email Contact: Startingpointrhrc@gmail.com 

Behavioral Health Resources (mental health and substance use)

Behavioral Health Resources for Veterans

The VA (US Department of Veterans Affairs) offers a wide range of comprehensive behavioral health services for military veterans. However, veterans may choose to access services at any behavioral health provider in the community, as long as they meet eligibility requirements.

Veteran Services | Orange County, NC

VA Durham Health Care | Veterans Affairs

Caramore Community

Caramore's mission focuses on empowering people with severe mental illness to live meaningful and independent lives. By fostering strong work ethics and creating a safe and supportive environment, the individuals they serve are given space to flourish. Caramore Community offers a vocational program with transitional housing, as well as peer support services.

Carolina Behavioral Care

Offers psychiatric and therapy services for people with behavioral health needs. Accepts Medicaid and private insurance. Locations in Hillsborough and Durham.

  • Hillsborough Office Address: 209 Millstone Dr, Hillsborough, NC 27278
  • Phone: 919-245-5400

Carolina Outreach

Same-day mental health services such as safety assessments, emergency medication refills, and crisis counseling to those ages 4 and up. Services are provided on a walk-in basis. No referral or appointment is needed.

Currently accepting the following insurances: Alliance Medicaid, Vaya Medicaid, Trillium Medicaid, and all five NC Medicaid Standard Plans. We also see uninsured individuals and those who have private insurance and meet certain income criteria.

  • Address: 2670 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd, Durham, NC 27707 
  • Phone:  919-251-9009
  • Email: info@carolinaoutreach.com

El Futuro

El Futuro is a one-of-a-kind place where Spanish-speaking immigrants can access culturally-responsive mental health services.

El Futuro offers the following services: DWI assessments and treatment; comprehensive mental health evaluations; Individual, family, and group treatment; substance abuse evaluation and treatment; and psychiatric treatment

  • Address: 2020 Chapel Hill Rd, Suite 23, Durham, NC 27707
  • Phone: 919-688-7101

Freedom House Recovery Center

Freedom House is a non-profit behavioral health care agency that provides a broad continuum of person-centered, comprehensive services for children, adolescents, adults and families who suffer from behavioral issues, mental illness, or addiction.

Hillsborough Comprehensive Treatment Center

Hillsborough Comprehensive Treatment Center (CTC) offers outpatient treatment for adults age 18 and older who are struggling with opioid use disorder. The center provides medication-assisted treatment (MAT).

  • Address: 129 Mayo St, Hillsborough, NC 27278
  • Phone: 887-359-1463

Orange County Health Department

Offers behavioral health counseling services to their patients.

Oxford Houses of North Carolina (Sober Living Houses)

A statewide network of recovery residences, chartered by Oxford House, Inc., the 501(c)(3) umbrella corporation. Oxford Houses are peer-driven, democratically run, and self-supported group residences for individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder.

Oxford House Vacancies Search by location

Residential Treatment Programs Excel File

To use this file, open it and click ‘enable content’ button under toolbar. Click on the yellow ‘RESOURCE LIST’ tab button at the bottom left of the Excel window. Make appropriate selections in the yellow cells in the top row (click in the cell and look for the small gray box with a down arrow to the right and click on that arrow) for DURATION, GENDER, ALL COST OPTIONS, FAITH BASED?, STATE LICENSED?, ACCEPT METHADONE OR SUBOXONE?

Stepping Up Initiative

A national initiative to reduce overincarceration of people with mental illnesses. Provides a data-driven framework to assist counties through training, resources, and support tailored to local needs. 

UNC STAR (Substance Treatment and Recovery)

Offers assessments, outpatient therapy, DWI assessment and counseling, and services specifically tailored to teens and young adults.

  • Address: 1101 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (Chapel Hill North)
  • Phone: 984-974-6320

UNC STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program)

Outpatient services for people with severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

  • Address: 200 N Greensboro St, Suite C-6, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-962-4919

When you arrive at Carr Mill Mall, take the elevator or stairs located near the middle of the mall to the second floor. The clinic is the first office door on the left.

XDS, Inc.

XDS, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) with a vision of empowering individuals living with mental health challenges to find a way of becoming self-sufficient and have an improved quality of life. They do this by providing an array of clinically appropriate, person-centered, and flexible treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.

  • Mailing Address: P.O. Box 368, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-656-4395

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Community Support and Social Services

Community Empowerment Fund (CEF)

The Orange Community Hub at CEF in Chapel Hill seeks to better enable community members in Orange County to achieve self-sufficiency by bringing together a variety of services in an integrated service delivery approach.

  • Chapel Hill hub: 208 N. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill — 919-200-0233
  • Durham location: 2634 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd, Suite 6, Durham — 919-797-9233

Inter-Faith Council (IFC) Commons

Members and volunteers provide support, resources, and crisis intervention to those in the community in a mutually supportive community environment. Services include a Community Kitchen, Community Market (food pantry), emergency financial assistance, and the REAL Transformation initiative.

Meals:

  • Monday–Friday: Lunch 11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; Dinner 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
  • Saturday–Sunday: Lunch 11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
  • Address: 110 West Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-929-6380

Orange Department of Social Services

The Orange County Department of Social Services (DSS) provides protection to vulnerable children and adults and economic support to low-income individuals and families in crisis.

You may apply for Food and Nutrition Services (Food Stamps) or Medicaid online at ePASS (NC), or you may complete a hard copy and mail it to DSS or drop it off in person. You can also go to DSS and meet with someone to apply.

Medicaid applications can be downloaded online. Applications for the Food and Nutrition Services Program can be downloaded in an English version (PDF) or a Spanish version.

Reintegration Support Network (RSN)

RSN, through its peer support model, supports youth and emerging adults (ages 13–25) in developing a sense of belonging and the skills and capacities for self-advocacy, healthy relationships, quality of life, and positive engagement in the community. Mentors provide one-to-one mentoring and facilitate groups.

  • Address: 117 West Main St, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 984-777-5282

Wounded Healers of North Carolina

Wounded Healers of North Carolina is a Reentry Community Organization based in Durham led by those with lived experience of incarceration. With perseverance and support, Wounded Healers have successfully transitioned back to their community and now resolve to use their own transformation experience, bolstered by certifications as peer support specialists, to help others achieve the same.

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Detox Services

Freedom House Facility-Based Crisis (detox)

  • Walk-in services: 24 hours/day
  • Address: 110 New Stateside Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
  • Phone: 919-967-8844

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Employment and Career Development

Durham Technical Community College

Durham Tech – Career Services

Offers employment resources and continuing education. Career Services at Durham Tech can help students and alumni search, find, and transition to a career.

Durham Tech – Workforce Development

Workforce Development provides career and employee assessments as well as courses in career development and enhancement. High School Diploma and GED classes also available.

NC Works / Skills Development Center

The Orange County Skills Development Center is a one-stop shop that assists individuals in seeking and obtaining employment as well as access education and training. The Center also offers referrals to community-based agencies for assistance with additional needs. Services are free of charge and open to all members of the public.

  • Address: 2501 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
  • Phone: 919-245-4335

NC DHHS Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Provides counseling, training, education, transportation, job placement, assistive technology and other support services to people with disabilities. Disabling conditions may include physical impairments, mental health issues, or addiction.

  • Local Address: 548 Smith Level Rd, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-969-7350

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Food Resources

Food Resources in Orange County

Find Food in Orange County (NC State Extension) 

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Harm Reduction Resources

Harm reduction aims to reduce the negative consequences of risky behaviors. Nearly everyone engages in risk and uses harm reduction strategies in daily life—wearing seatbelts, sunscreen, or supportive shoes, for example. In the context of substance use, harm reduction recognizes that abstinence is not always possible or desired and focuses instead on making use safer. Its goal is to prevent disease and injury and improve overall public health by reducing risk.

Common harm reduction strategies include syringe service programs to reduce disease transmission, naloxone distribution and overdose prevention training, medication-assisted treatment (such as methadone and buprenorphine), drug-checking tools like fentanyl test strips, and outreach to connect people with education and treatment when they want it. These approaches benefit the entire community by reducing public health risks, such as improperly discarded or contaminated needles. Harm reduction meets people where they are, providing immediate tools for safety while building relationships that can support future care.

Orange County Harm Reduction Resources Flyer

Harm Reduction Laws

People may be afraid to administer naloxone due to concerns about liability if they make a mistake, or to ask for needed help due to concerns about legal implications of “outing” themselves to authorities as substance users. There are a few laws that address these concerns directly. Here are some resources that discuss laws related to harm reduction measures.

NCDHHS Naloxone Distribution Toolkit

This toolkit is intended for local health departments, coalitions, and other community organizations and includes detailed information on law and policy for Naloxone distribution.

NCDHHS Syringe and Naloxone Access

Information from North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) about their harm reduction work, including information about the NC Safer Syringe Initiative and how to access Naloxone.

NC Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC)

NCHRC is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to implementing harm reduction interventions, public health strategies, drug policy transformation, and justice reform in North Carolina. NCHRC engages in grassroots advocacy, resource and policy development, coalition building, and direct services for people impacted by drug use, incarceration, sex work, overdose, gender, HIV and hepatitis, and first responders.

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Hispanic / Latine resources

El Centro Hispano

Supports and advocates for members of the local Latinx community through educational opportunities, economic development, health and wellbeing support, community engagement and advocacy.

  • Address: 201 West Weaver Street, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-945-0132

El Futuro

El Futuro is a one-of-a-kind place where Spanish-speaking immigrants can access culturally-responsive mental health services.

Services include:

  • DWI assessments and treatment
  • Comprehensive mental health evaluations
  • Individual, family, and group treatment
  • Substance abuse evaluation and treatment
  • Psychiatric treatment
  • Address: 2020 Chapel Hill Rd, Suite 23, Durham, NC 27707
  • Phone: 919-688-7101

Mentes Fuertes (Strong Minds Program)

The Strong Minds intervention consists of 10, one-hour psychoeducational sessions using an integrative approach adapted from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including motivational interviewing, mindfulness, behavioral activation, psychoeducation, and self-management. These sessions are delivered by trained Community Health Workers. Eligible participants are adults 18+ that speak Spanish and have symptoms of anxiety and/or depression.

Mentes Fuertes Interest Form

Información en español

La intervención de Mentes Fuertes consta de 10 sesiones de psicoeducación de una hora que utilizan un enfoque integrador adaptado de la terapia cognitivo-conductual, que incluye entrevistas motivacionales, atención plena, activación conductual, psicoeducación y autogestión. Estas sesiones son impartidas por trabajadores de salud comunitarios capacitados. Los participantes elegibles son adultos mayores de 18 años que hablen español y tengan síntomas de ansiedad y/o depresión.

Formulario de interés de Mentes Fuertes

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Housing Assistance and Support

Orange County Emergency Housing Assistance (EHA)

The Emergency Housing Assistance fund was created under the Risk Mitigation and Housing Displacement Fund to help Orange County residents with low incomes prevent eviction and homelessness and secure and maintain stable housing.

Assistance is available to households in Orange County that:

  • Earn no more than 60% of the area median income (AMI)
  • Have an urgent need for housing assistance that is related to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Do not have adequate resources to cover the cost of their housing need

Orange County Housing Helpline (Partnership to End Homelessness)

The Orange County Housing Help program connects people in housing crisis with housing resources in Orange County.

Street Outreach, Harm Reduction and Deflection Program (SOHRAD)

The SOHRAD program connects people experiencing homelessness in Orange County with housing and services. Peer support and clinical staff will provide ongoing engagement, response and case management to unsheltered individuals.

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Intimate Partner Violence / Sexual Assault

Compass Center

Compass Center's free and voluntary services guide individuals and their families toward safety, self-sufficiency, and empowerment.

Orange County Rape Crisis Center

Helps survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones 24 hours a day.

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Orange County Court System

Phone numbers for court system stakeholder offices:

Chapel Hill/Carrboro Criminal Justice Debt Program

The Criminal Justice Debt Program may assist with outstanding criminal justice debt, with the hope of helping fiscally indebted individuals reintegrate back into the community.

Dispute Settlement Center (DSC) 

A non-profit mediation center focused on promoting and bringing about the peaceful settlement of disputes and preventing the escalation of conflict through mediation, facilitation, conflict resolution, and restorative justice approaches. 

  • Address: 302 West Weaver St., Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-929-8800

Legal Aid of North Carolina

Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.

NC Free Legal Answers

A free, online service for low-income individuals in NC who need legal advice on non-criminal matters.

Orange County Local Reentry Council

The Local Reentry Council’s purpose is to coordinate resources in the community in an effort to provide assistance for returning individuals and their families that will facilitate a successful transition from incarceration back into society or help reduce barriers that are faced by those who have been justice-involved.

  • Location: Whitted Human Services Bldg, 300 North Tryon Street, Office B242, Hillsborough, NC 27278
  • Contact: Tiffany Bullard, Reentry Council Case Manager — 919-245-2065; Cell: 984-439-5998

Our Children’s Place

A statewide program committed to the children of incarcerated and returning parents. Focuses on advocacy and educational resources to support children and strengthen statewide response to their needs.

Prisoner Legal Services

A non-profit law firm dedicated to ensuring access to the courts for people incarcerated in North Carolina state prisons. NCPLS attorneys work to correct unlawful criminal sentences and advocate for safe, humane, and constitutional prison conditions.

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Medicaid Resources

NC Medicaid (NC DHHS)

Information from NC DHHS about Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.

Alliance Health

North Carolina's BH/IDD Tailored Plan.

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Mental Health Support

Club Nova

Club Nova is a nonprofit community center for people with serious mental illness providing employment, education, social opportunities, and more.

  • Address: 103 West Main St., Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-968-6682

Duke Hospice Bereavement Services

Provides individual and group grief counseling.

  • Address: 1001 Corporate Dr, Hillsborough, NC 27278
  • Phone: 919-620-3853

UNC STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program)

Outpatient clinic that helps individuals and families dealing with serious mental illness make strides toward health and recovery. Serves people diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression.

  • Address: 200 N. Greensboro St., Suite C-6 (Second Floor), Carr Mill Mall, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-962-4919

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

The nation's largest grassroots mental health organization. Proving ,mental health support, education, and advocacy. 

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Overdose Awareness Resources

International Overdose Awareness Day

Every August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) brings a global community together to take action on overdose. This is a global platform that provides tools, resources, and a space for communities to connect and drive change. 

NCDHHS Overdose Epidemic

"From 2000-2022 more than 36,000 North Carolinians lost their lives to drug overdose. This epidemic is devastating families and communities. It is overwhelming medical providers and is straining prevention and treatment efforts." This website contains information about opioids and the opioid epidemic, the NC opioid settlement, and how to get connected and involved.

Recognizing the Signs of an Opioid Overdose

How to Recognize an Overdose

Urgent, Related, Preventable

This website seeks to highlight the urgent public health impact of adverse childhood experience (ACEs), overdose, and suicide, and discusses why they are related and how we can work to prevent them. The website talks about how we can understand ACEs, overdose, and suicide and how they are related to each other, and offers guidance on how we can talk about these issues in a collective messaging framework. The site offers videos, infographics, a toolkit, and a one-page fact sheet. 

Reentry Resources

Community Empowerment Fund (CEF)

The Community Empowerment Fund (CEF) is a non-profit organization in Durham and Orange Counties of North Carolina. CEF’s mission is to cultivate opportunities, assets, and communities that sustain transitions out of homelessness and poverty. They offer advocates, financial coaching, and safe savings accounts. The Orange Community Hub at CEF in Chapel Hill seeks to better enable community members in Orange County to achieve self-sufficiency by bringing together a variety of services in an integrated service delivery approach.

  • Chapel Hill hub: 208 N. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill — 919-200-0233
  • Durham location: 2634 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd, Suite 6, Durham — 919-797-9233

Fathers on the Move

Fathers On The Move (FOTM) helps young men, most of whom are fathers, avoid or break out of the cycle of returning repeatedly to incarceration and move on to become successful and productive community and family members. Viable and sustained employment and meaningful engagement with their families are essential to these goals. See the website for information on programs for both formerly incarcerated men and at risk youth.

  • Address: PO Box 16272, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
  • Phone: 919-338-9563     

Freedom House Recovery Center

Freedom House is a non-profit behavioral health care agency that provides a broad continuum of person-centered, comprehensive services for children, adolescents, adults and families who suffer from behavioral issues, mental illness, or addiction.

Inter-Faith Council (IFC) Commons

Members and volunteers provide support, resources, and crisis intervention to those in the community in a mutually supportive community environment. Services include a Community Kitchen, Community Market (food pantry), emergency financial assistance, and the REAL Transformation initiative.

Meals:

  • Monday–Friday: Lunch 11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; Dinner 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
  • Saturday–Sunday: Lunch 11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
  • Address: 110 West Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-929-6380

OC Connect Database

A consolidated community listing of services and resources offered by government and/or non-profit organizations in Orange County. The OC Connect database includes information on services including emergency, food, housing, goods, transit, health, finances, care, education, work, and legal.

Orange County Housing Help Line

The Emergency Housing Assistance fund was created helps Orange County residents with low incomes prevent eviction and homelessness and secure and maintain stable housing. See the website for eligibility information and a link to the online application portal.

Orange County FIT (Formerly Incarcerated Transition) Program

The FIT Program is designed to connect formerly incarcerated people with chronic illness to health care services. If eligible, a Community Health Worker from the FIT program will work to connect the participant to appropriate health services. Other community reentry resources may be available to help with a comprehensive reentry plan. See the website for eligibility and contact information.

  • Phone: 919-245-2397     

Reintegration Support Network (RSN)

RSN, through its peer support model, supports youth and emerging adults (ages 13–25) in developing a sense of belonging and the skills and capacities for self-advocacy, healthy relationships, quality of life, and positive engagement in the community. Mentors provide one-to-one mentoring and facilitate groups.

  • Address: 117 West Main St, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 984-777-5282 

Refugee Resources

Church World Services

Works with community partners to educate the wider community, advocate for immigrant and refugee causes, and equip new refugees and immigrants for long-term success. Services include case management, English classes, employment services, legal services, and advocacy/outreach.

  • Address: 112 S. Duke St., Suite 4B, Durham, NC 27701
  • Phone: 919-680-4310

Refugee Community Partnership (RCP)

Volunteers walk alongside members throughout their lifelong journey with US systems and institutions. This produces powerful bonds for cross-community relationship building, collaboration, and coordinated action, and builds a shared sense of ownership.

  • Mailing address: PO Box 461, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-590-5910

Refugee Support Center

The Refugee Support Center (RSC) is a 501(c)(3) volunteer-based organization established to facilitate the transition of local North Carolina refugees to a new life in our community by providing them services, helping them access resources, and developing their skills to promote self-sufficiency.

  • Address: 401 Highway 54 Bypass, E-15, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 919-423-1478

Orange County Health Department Refugee Health Services

The Health Department offers services to all people regardless of their immigration status. Interpreters are available in all languages.

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Substance Test Strips

Fentanyl

As explained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are two types of fentanyl: Phamaceutical fentanyl and illegally made fentanyl. Both are synthetic opioids but most recent cases of fentanyl-related overdoses are linked to illegally made fentanyl. Read more about Fentanyl on the CDC's page.

Xylazine

Xylazine is a non-opioid-sedative or tranquilizer, not approved to be used in people, that has increasingly found its way into many drugs. Xylazine poses many health risks and has been linked to overdose deaths, as well. Fentanyl mixed with xylazine has been declared an emerging threat by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. Read more about Xylazine on the CDC's page.

Orange County offers free fentanyl and xylazine test strips to check for their presence in drugs. These test strips are distributed through vending machines at the Orange County Detention Center and the Orange County Southern Human Services Center.

  • Orange County Detention Center: 1200 US-70 West, Hillsborough NC (across from the DMV), available to the public 24 hours/day
  • Orange County Southern Human Services Center: 2501 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, available to the public during regular business hours

Substance Use Treatment / Addiction Resources

A Fresh Start

Offers DWI assessments and substance use treatment groups. 

  • Address: 104 Jones Ferry Rd, Suite B, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone:919-260-0629

Alcohol Help

Alcohol Help is an informational web source dedicated to supporting and helping anyone battling alcoholism or co-occurring behavioral and mental health disorders.

Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability Rights NC is a 501(c)(3) legal advocacy agency that fights for the rights of people with disabilities in North Carolina.

The provide information on Opioid and Substance Use Disorder resources by county here.

The following link contains information about rights concerning Substance Use Disorders and Access to Healthcare Services.

Freedom House Recovery Center

Freedom House offers outpatient substance use treatment groups and operates two halfway houses: one for men and one for women.

  • Address: 104 New Stateside Drive, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Phone: 919-942-2803

North Carolina Drug User Health Resource Guide

A comprehensive list of resources from NC DHHS for people in North Carolina, broken down by region and county. Includes places to get medical care, housing, food, syringe access, MAT, and behavioral health treatment.

NC Harm Reduction Coalition

NCHRC engages in grassroots advocacy, resource development, coalition building and direct services for people impacted by drug use, sex work, overdose, gender, STIs, HIV, and hepatitis.

Programs include:

  • Overdose Prevention Program
  • Syringe services

Oxford Houses North Carolina

Oxford Houses are a clean and sober housing option for individuals in recovery. Individuals typically enter an Oxford House after completing a Substance Use Disorder treatment program. Individuals living in a house are expected to participate in a recovery program in the community during their residence.

UNC ASAP (Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program)

Outpatient substance use treatment offering group and individual therapy.

  • Address: 1101 Weaver Dairy Rd, Suite 102 and 103, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
  • Phone: 984-974-6320

UNC Horizons

UNC Horizons is a substance use disorder treatment program for women, including those who are pregnant, parenting, and/or whose lives have been touched by abuse and violence. Offers residential and outpatient treatment. Residential treatment is available to pregnant women and mothers of children (children may accompany them to the program).

  • Address: 410 N Greensboro St, Carrboro, NC 27510
  • Phone: 800-862-4050

Words Matter - NIDA Article

Words Matter - Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

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Transportation

Orange County Public Transit

Orange County Public Transit strives to provide a comprehensive continuum of locally accessible, community-based transportation services.

Services include:

  • Fixed routes
  • Mobility on Demand (MOD): On-demand, low-cost transportation service for Orange County residents
  • General public: 919-245-2008
  • TDD/TTY: 919-644-3045

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