Community Resources

Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic 

The mission of the Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic is to provide community-based healthcare for the residents of Gloucester and Mathews counties, and select surrounding areas, who lack health insurance, or are covered by Medicaid.  

Virginia Department of Health

Virginia Vaccines for Children

 VVFC is a federal program established in 1994 to help raise childhood immunization rates in Virginia. VVFC provides federally purchased vaccines to health care providers, at no cost to them, to be given to eligible children at their facilities. The VVFC program allows children to get all their health care needs filled at one location. 

Children under 19 who are covered by Meidcaid or Medicaid HMO, are underinsured or unisured, or are American Indian/Alaskan Native. 

TANF

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

TANF is the cash assistance program for very low income families in Virginia. The purpose of the program is to help needy adults take care of their families and become self-sufficient. In addition to cash benefits, the TANF program has a variety of services that help people find and keep jobs.

SNAP

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

SNAP provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of needy families so they can purchase healthy food and move towards self-sufficiency. 

Assistance Programs in Middle Peninsula of Virginia

This website has a helpful list of resources for various types of assistance such as paying bills, food, housing, counseling, etc. 

Avalon Center

Avalon Center works to end domestic and sexual violence by breaking the cycle of abuse through prevention, education, shelter and support services in the greater Williamsburg and Middle Peninsula communities. By offering tools for safety, self-sufficiency and empowerment, Avalon helps break the cycle of abuse and build a stronger, healthier community.

Avalon Center campus can house about 50 women and children a day, offering tools for healing, assistance finding employment and permanent housing along with life skills training.  Avalon Center provides programs for adults including counseling and support groups, legal advocacy, and hospital accompaniment. Youth Services provides a safe supervised visitation and custody exchange center, anti-bullying, safe dating, and other education programs in area middle and high schools. 

Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Community Services Board

Our organization provides services designed to help members of our community achieve their individual goals.  This includes recovery. MPNN CSB has over 60 distinct programs to aid and support all ages and many situations;  from babies with developmental delays to teens who have experienced trauma; from adults with a serious mental illness to individuals struggling to maintain a drug-free life. Services include a variety of outpatient, intensive outpatient, support coordination and residential programs with 24/7 crisis support. MPNN CSB works on a sliding fee scale for uninsured individuals to ensure that no individual goes unserved. 

Chesapeake Counseling amd Associates, PC

Chesapeake Counseling is a private practice consisting of Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Certified Substance Abuse Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists. Chesapeake Counseling Associates, PC provides a caring environment in which clients can identify and explore issues that may be preventing them from living a more rewarding life. We believe that everyone who walks through our door has the capacity to hope, change, and live life with purpose. 

Willow Tree Healing Center

Experienced. Certified. Supportive.

Willow Tree Healing Center LLC is about transforming the lives of kids, families, and women by providing a place to feel empowered and the tools to live a rewarding and harmonious life. 

Therapy with us is about you being in control, learning new ways to help yourself and your child, and enjoying the process. Your kids will learn new, healthy ways of behaving, your family will learn better ways of communicating, and everyone will begin to work together with days feeling smooth.

WTHC offers individual and family counseling, working with children/adolescents, adults, students, employees, and employer groups.

Vita Bella Counseling

Vita Bella is a trauma informed Center that offers EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic, CBT, IFS/Parts/Ego state, DBT and Child Centered Play Therapy. We specialize in trauma, family conflict, attachment, adoption, grief, infidelity, anxiety, relational challenges, substance use, and physical or sexual abuse. 

All Clinicians are trained in EMDR, Brainspotting or both.  This includes our Reiki practitioner who is working toward Brainspotting certification.  

Take a deep breath—you’re in the right place. Let’s start this journey together!

G.U.E.S.T

Gloucester United Emergency Shelter Team

​The mission of G.U.E.S.T. (Gloucester United Emergency Shelter Team) is to develop, sustain, and coordinate hypothermic shelter and other needed services for the homeless and near homeless in the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck area in order to move the homeless population toward self-sufficiency. They offer a Day Shelter and Resouce Center, Winter Overnight Shelter, Family Shelter, and a Motel Voucher Program

Middle Peninsula Employment Center

Job Assistance Center  is a one stop career center. The center is a full service one stop facility with information and resources for employment and career development. Job seeker services include job listings, access to computers, copiers, phones and fax machines, resume sessions on job search, training opportunities and information and referral to area programs and resources, training providers and workforce development. The One stop center provides integrated, user-friendly, and responsive services to the community of employers, workers and job seekers. 

Middle Peninsula Regional and Adult Career Education

Middle Peninsula Regional Adult & Career Education provides instruction to improve adult literacy & basic skills in reading, writing, and math; GED Preparation instruction.

Transportation 

Bay Transit

Transportation from your home to any destination on the Middle Peninsula. Please schedule your time 24 hours in advance

Middle Peninsula Rideshare

MidPenRideShare is a resource for finding greener options like carpool, vanpool, transit, bike or telecommute. 

NAMI 

National Alliance on Mental Health

Tidewater Region

The mission of NAMI Mid-Tidewater Virginia is to support individuals affected by mental health disorders along with their families, friends, and the community by sharing our personal experiences, educating the public on the impacts of these disorders and advocating to rid the world of the stigma surrounding brain disorders.

NAMI Mid-Tidewater Virginia covers the general areas of the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

Behavioral and Mental Health Counseling services