2-1-1 is an easy to remember telephone number that connects people with important community services and volunteer opportunities. For example, 2-1-1 can offer access to the following types of services:
* Protecting Community Well-Being: emergency assistance, food banks, clothing closets, shelters, legal assistance, domestic violence.
* Improving People's Health: health insurance programs, Medicaid and Medicare, maternal health, medical information lines, crisis intervention services, support groups, counseling, drug and alcohol intervention and rehabilitation, senior citizen services.
* Promoting Self-Sufficiency: financial assistance, job training, transportation assistance, education programs.
* Helping Kids Succeed: youth development programs, foster care, adoption, preschools, after-school programs.
* Strengthening and Supporting Families: family resource centers, summer camps and recreation programs, mentoring, tutoring, protective services, family planning.
* Volunteer Opportunities and Donations
Blount County residents may dial 2-1-1 to obtain access to social services through a large database of providers. The call is free and the service is available 24 hours a day. Nonprofit organizations who wish to be listed in the 2-1-1 database should call United Way of Blount County at 982-2251.
Some telephone services are not compatible with 2-1-1. Please call 1-800-318-9335, or if you have a rotary telephone, please dial 1-888-807-6023.
For more information about 2-1-1, please visit 211tn.org.