Need help right now? If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. For a mental-health, substance-use, or suicide crisis, call or text 988. For shelter, food, or local services tonight, dial 211 or see the resources for your state. Mai Heaven is not an emergency service.
Right now
If the need is immediate, start here — these lead with the real emergency and crisis resources for tonight:
Need housing tonight
Who to call now for a safe place to sleep tonight.
Being discharged with no address
Your rights and options when the hospital wants to discharge with nowhere to go.
Leaving a shelter today
Step-down and transitional options when a shelter stay ends.
Released with no housing
Where to start on re-entry housing.
Facing eviction soon
Legal aid, rent assistance, and where supported housing fits.
When home is not safe
Confidential help right now if where you live is violent or unsafe.
A young person without stable housing
Couch-surfing, an unsafe home, or aging out — help built for youth.
A family losing its housing
Family shelters, school supports, and where to start.
Choose the situation
A hospital wants to discharge someone with nowhere safe to go
Your rights, how to challenge an unsafe discharge, and who to call.
A parent can't safely go home after a hospital stay
The options when home isn't safe anymore, and how placement actually works.
A young person is ageing out of foster care
Housing and support for youth with no adult placement lined up.
A veteran needs stable housing
VA programs and supportive-housing routes, including hard-to-place cases.
An adult with autism or I/DD needs a supported home
What licensed I/DD residential care looks like and how it's funded.
Someone with serious mental illness needs supported housing
Behaviorally-stable community housing, and what to look for.
You're on (or need) a Medicaid waiver waiting list
How waivers fund housing, and why getting on the list early matters.
Recovery: sober living vs a supported home
The real difference, and which fits which need.
Someone has been refused everywhere / is "hard to place"
The playbook for the cases other placements keep bouncing.
Someone needs a bed tonight
The crisis and emergency numbers to call now — honestly, that isn't us yet.
Find your state
The local term for a supported home, who licenses it, how to verify a provider, and local crisis lines — all 50 states + DC.
Refer someone (case managers & families)
No login. A de-identified referral takes a minute and joins the waiting list; we answer within one business day.
For professionals referring someone · Questions about supported homes, answered · Help available today