Individual and Family Services
Child and Youth Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance services for children and youth. These establishments provide for the welfare of children in such areas as adoption and foster care, drug prevention, life skills training, and positive social development.Cross-References:
- Establishments primarily engaged in providing day care services for children are classified in Child Day Care Services.
- Adoption agencies
- Adoption services, child
- Aid to families with dependent children (AFDC)
- Child guidance agencies
- Child welfare services
- Community centers (except recreational only), youth
- Foster care placement agencies
- Foster home placement services
- Self-help organizations, youth
- Teen outreach services
- Youth centers (except recreational only)
- Youth guidance organizations
- Youth self-help organizations
Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance services to improve the quality of life for the elderly, persons diagnosed with mental retardation, or persons with disabilities. These establishments provide for the welfare of these of individuals in such areas as day care, nonmedical home care or homemaker services, social activities, group support, and companionship.Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in:
- Providing job training for persons diagnosed with mental retardation or persons with disabilities--are classified in Vocational Rehabilitation Services;
- Providing residential care for the elderly, persons diagnosed with mental retardation, or persons with disabilities--are classified in Nursing and Residential Care Facilities;
- Providing in-home health care services--are classified in Ambulatory Health Care Services.
- Activity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with me
- Centers, senior citizens'
- Community centers (except recreational only), adult
- Companion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with
- Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with me
- Day care centers, adult
- Disability support groups
- Home care of elderly, non-medical
- Homemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical
- Self-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed
- Senior citizens activity centers
- Senior citizens centers
Other Individual and Family Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential individual and family social assistance services (except those specifically directed toward children, the elderly, persons diagnosed with mental retardation, or persons with disabilities).Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in:
- Providing clinical psychological and psychiatric social counseling services--are classified in Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians);
- Providing child and youth social assistance services (except day care)--are classified in Child and Youth Services;
- Providing child day care services--are classified in Child Day Care Services;
- Providing social assistance services for the elderly, persons diagnosed with mental retardation, and persons with disabilities--are classified in Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities;
- Providing in-home health care services--are classified in Ambulatory Health Care Services.
- Alcoholism and drug addiction self-help organizations
- Alcoholism counseling (except medical treatment), nonresidential
- Alcoholism self-help organizations
- Community action service agencies
- Counseling services
- Crisis intervention centers
- Drug addiction self-help organizations
- Exoffender rehabilitation agencies
- Exoffender self-help organizations
- Family social service agencies
- Family welfare services
- Hotline centers
- Individual and family social services, multi-purpose
- Marriage counseling services (except by offices of mental health practitioners)
- Mediation, social service, family, agencies
- Multiservice centers, neighborhood
- Offender self-help organizations
- Parenting support services
- Private parole offices
- Private probation offices
- Rape crisis centers
- Referral services for personal and social problems
- Rehabilitation agencies for offenders
- Self-help organizations (except for disabled persons, the elderly, persons diagno
- Social service agencies, family
- Social service centers, multipurpose
- Suicide crisis centers
- Support group services
- Telephone counseling services
- Travelers' aid centers
- Welfare service centers, multi-program
Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services
Community Food Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the collection, preparation, and delivery of food for the needy. Establishments in this industry may also distribute clothing and blankets to the poor. These establishments may prepare and deliver meals to persons who by reason of age, disability, or illness are unable to prepare meals for themselves; collect and distribute salvageable or donated food; or prepare and provide meals at fixed or mobile locations. Food banks, meal delivery programs, and soup kitchens are included in this industry.Business types:
- Community meals, social services
- Food banks
- Meal delivery programs
- Mobile soup kitchens
- Soup kitchens
Community Housing Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing one or more of the following community housing services: (1) short term emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or child abuse; (2) temporary residential shelter for the homeless, runaway youths, and patients and families caught in medical crises; (3) transitional housing for low-income individuals and families; (4) volunteer construction or repair of low cost housing, in partnership with the homeowner who may assist in construction or repair work; and (5) repair of homes for elderly or disabled homeowners. These establishments may operate their own shelter; or may subsidize housing using existing homes, apartments, hotels, or motels; or may require a low-cost mortgage or work (sweat) equity.Temporary Shelters
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing (1) short term emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or child abuse and/or (2) temporary residential shelter for homeless individuals or families, runaway youth, and patients and families caught in medical crises. These establishments may operate their own shelters or may subsidize housing using existing homes, apartments, hotels, or motels.Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in providing emergency shelter for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts are classified in Emergency and Other Relief Services.
Business types:
- Battered women's shelters
- Emergency shelters (except for victims of domestic or international disasters or
- Homeless shelters
- Runaway youth shelters
- Shelters (except for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts)
- Shelters, battered women's
- Shelters, homeless
- Shelters, runaway youth
- Shelters, temporary (e.g., battered women's, homeless, runaway youth)
- Temporary housing for families of medical patients
- Temporary shelters (e.g., battered women's, homeless, runaway youth)
- Women's shelters, battered
Other Community Housing Services
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing one or more of the following community housing services: (1) transitional housing to low-income individuals and families; (2) volunteer construction or repair of low-cost housing, in partnership with the homeowner who may assist in the construction or repair work; and (3) the repair of homes for elderly or disabled homeowners. These establishments may subsidize housing using existing homes, apartments, hotels, or motels or may require a low-cost mortgage or sweat equity. These establishments may also provide low-income families with furniture and household supplies.Business types:
- Energy assistance programs
- Home construction organizations, work (sweat) equity
- Housing assistance agencies
- Housing repair organizations, volunteer
- Transitional housing agencies
- Volunteer housing repair organizations
- Work (sweat) equity home construction organizations
- 624230 Emergency and Other Relief Services
- This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counseling to victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts (e.g., wars).
- Disaster relief services
- Emergency relief services
- Emergency shelters for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflict
- Immigrant resettlement services
- Refugee settlement services
- Relief services, disaster
- Relief services, emergency
- Shelters for victims of domestic or international disasters or conflicts, emergency
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in providing vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services, such as job counseling, job training, and work experience, to unemployed and underemployed persons, persons with disabilities, and persons who have a job market disadvantage because of lack of education, job skill, or experience and (2) establishments primarily engaged in providing training and employment to persons with disabilities. Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools) and sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) are included in this industry.Business types:
- Habilitation job counseling and training, vocational
- Job counseling, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation
- Job training, vocational rehabilitation or habilitation
- Rehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational
- Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers)
- Vocational habilitation job counseling
- Vocational habilitation job training facilities (except schools)
- Vocational rehabilitation agencies
- Vocational rehabilitation job counseling
- Vocational rehabilitation job training facilities (except schools)
- Vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services (e.g., job counseling, job tra
- Work experience centers (i.e., sheltered workshops)
- Workshops for persons with disabilities
Child Day Care Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing day care of infants or children. These establishments generally care for preschool children, but may care for older children when they are not in school and may also offer prekindergarten educational programs.Business types:
- Babysitting services in provider's own home, child day care
- Babysitting services, child day care
- Child day care centers
- Child day care services
- Child day care services in provider's own home
- Child day care, before or after school, separate from schools
- Day care centers, child or infant
- Day care services, child or infant
- Group day care centers, child or infant
- Head start programs, separate from schools
- Infant day care centers
- Infant day care services
- Nursery schools
- Pre-kindergarten centers (except part of elementary school system)
- Preschool centers
