Resource Directory
In North Carolina, there are multiple agencies and organizations that offer services, assistance, education, support, and other resources to help the state’s population.
Through this directory, we want you and your family to have the information you need to quickly locate available services and resources.
As an essential tool, this directory will be periodically updated in both its printed and digital versions at www.elpueblo.org.
What Will You Find?
El Pueblo’s Resource Directory contains information about places where you can access food pantries, physical, mental, and dental health services, and more. It also includes legal services provided by nonprofit organizations, assistance with utility payments, and other resources.
Health Services
Locate the places closest to you that offer medical services, pharmacies, and mental health care for free or at low cost.
Legal Services
On the following pages, you will find a list of nonprofit organizations and local agencies that provide free or low-cost legal assistance.
Food Pantries
Find a list of places where you can access free meals or food pantries. These centers are dedicated to supporting families in times of need, ensuring no one goes hungry. Check the addresses and hours to access the help you need most.
Health Services
Find the locations closest to you that offer medical services, pharmacies, and mental health care for free or at low cost.
Legal Services
On the following pages, you’ll find a list of nonprofit organizations and local agencies that provide free or low-cost legal assistance. Remember, you should always seek help from a lawyer, NOT a notary, for any immigration, custody, or other legal matters you may be facing.
POWER & CONTROL
24
An average of 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States.
200M
More than 12 million women and men in the span of a single year, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
1. Threats & Coercion
• Scaring you with threats.
• Threatening to leave the relationship, to commit suicide, or to report you to the authorities.
• Forcing you to withdraw charges filed against him.
• Forcing you to commit illegal acts.
2. Economic Abuse
• Not letting you work or preventing you from keeping your job.
• Forcing you to ask him for money.
• Giving you a monthly allowance.
• Taking your money away.
• Not informing you about family income or not allowing you to have control over the income.
3. Abuse of Power
• Treating you like a servant.
• Not letting you make important decisions.
• Deciding for you how you should dress and choosing your friends.
4. Manipulation with the Children
• Making you feel guilty for your children’s behavior.
• Using the children as intermediaries to maintain control.
• Using visits with the children to bother or threaten you.
• Threatening to take the children away from you.
5. Minimizing, Denying, Blaming
• Minimizing the abuse.
• Not taking your concerns about the abuse seriously.
• Denying that the abuse happened.
• Making you feel responsible for the abusive behavior.
• Telling you that you caused it.
6. Isolation
• Controlling what you do, who you can see, who you can talk to, what you can read, and where you can go.
• Limiting your social life.
• Using jealousy to justify their actions.
7. Emotional Abuse
• Humiliating you.
• Insulting you.
• Calling you offensive nicknames.
• Making you think you’re crazy.
• Deliberately confusing you.
• Making you feel guilty.
8. Intimidation
• Causing you fear through their looks, actions, and gestures.
• Intimidating you through violent actions: yelling, breaking things, mistreating pets, or showing you weapons.
