COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Providing our communities with what we need and showing you where you can find it. We are going to start focusing on resources that are not funded by the government to prepare ourselves for the impacts of the cuts and dismantling we will face. We understand that not everyone that comes to this page for resources and free market information but these are necessary things that need to be shared and discussed to keep our community safe in all the ways we're capable of.
If you have suggestions on non profits, groups, or resources that should be listed here, feel free to reach out.
Appalachian Edge's Resources
Free Market and Community Aid Garden
Sexual Violence Survivors Resources and Support Groups
Local Pantries, Shelters and Transportation
LGBTQ+ Resources
Care and Prevention
Abortion Services and Reproductive Healthcare
For mutual aid efforts, you can find more here.
APPALACHIAN EDGE FREE MARKET

The Free Market is a mutual aid effort to ensure our communities sustainability and survival while also lessening folks' consumption. It is for the community, by the community. No questions asked. When basic needs are met, families and individuals can focus on each other and ourselves and actually live life. If you're around our area, don't donate to thrifts that just sell your stuff, donate to those who are putting it right back into the community where it's needed.
Coming soon: fresh foods from our community garden.
"Mutual aid is collective coordination to meet each other's needs usually from systems we have in place are not going to meet them. As we face more worsening conditions, we must come together and create pathways to sustain ourselves and keep each other safe."
We have clothing right now but are not accepting more clothing or large items and toys until we find a permanent storage and affordable store space.
If you are in need of anything we may have in between our free market days, please feel free to reach out and we can try to make something happen, whether meeting up or delivery. We want our market to be as accessible as possible. Hopefully one day we'll have a shed for folks to come and go as they please. This is all about the honor system and helping those in our community in all the ways were capable of. It's time to stop throwing everything away for it to go into the landfill or giving it to goodwill. We are a world filled where we mass produce everything. Most things, we do not need to buy brand new. If you'd like to learn more about mutual aid and our efforts, head over to our mutual aid page here on our website.




All of our events, activities and workshops we are accepting donations for our Free Market. We will also accept donations outside of the drop off days and locations if you reach out or fill out the donation form at the bottom of our Mutual Aid page here. Our Free Market is for our community, by our community. Everyone is welcome. To keep the market sustained we ask that you donate what you can and take what you need. Instead of donating to a thrift that turns around and sells it, we can put it all back into the community where it's more needed. We are hoping to reach all of the organizations within our county and the surrounding for visibility, partnership and collaboration. If you would love to collaborate or partner on our Free Market, we would absolutely love that.

We now have fresh veggies from our garden for our free market!
We are so excited to announce that our garden is producing food and some has been ready to harvest. July 25th will be the first free market where we will have fresh foods! We will have cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, radishes and possibly potatoes. Fresh foods will be first come first serve until we have more grown and harvested and a better system is set up with the help of a community committee. If you'd like to be on our Community Aid Committee, reach out to us.
To see and learn more about the garden head over to our fundraising and donations page.

OUR NEXT PROJECT: ADAMS COUNTY
We are going to create something that has the potential for immense positive change within our communities. A documentary about our neighbors and we need some folks to help us do just that. have a new way to reach our community. If we see our neighbors and hear their stories, we are more likely to care about what our neighbors are going through and possibly think even further than just our own community. Showing folks a movie where they could see their sister, their neighbor, their local farmer, the DG clerk, their hair dresser or anyone else in their lives, may help some folks understand the severity of what’s happening and that all of this is a non-partisan universal (national) problem. If you or someone you know would like to be involved or tell their story, reach out to our email below.
Join The Documentary Team
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Group and Organization Partners
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Photographer and Videographers and Sound (2-5 more)
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Directors (1-2 more) and Editors (2-3)
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Camera assistance (1 for each photo/videographer)
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Door knocking about community aid
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Finding local folks to be in the documentary throughout all of the county
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Location and Event planner assistant
SEXUAL VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP
Sexual Violence Awareness and Support Group
Every last Tuesday of the month
Peebles and West Union locations
Hosted by local peer who is educated in this knowledge as well as a survivor of this kind of abuse herself.


AVC is a duel domestic violence and rape crisis center providing 24-hour crisis intervention, education and community awareness. Agency advocates are specifically trained to provide immediate services utilizing trauma informed care.
Free Survivor Services Offered
Crisis Line (888)816-1146
Personal Advocacy, shelter, court advocacy, support groups, safety planning, emergency legal advocacy, house and relocation, legal assistance, medical advocacy, transportation and phones, parenting support and information and referrals.
Clinton County:
(937)383-3285
37 West Main St. Wilmington, Ohio
Highland County:
(937)393-8118
135 N. High St. Suite 1 Hillsboro, Ohio
Rape Crisis Centers
RESOURCES
https://oaesv.org/resources/resources-for-community-members/
Highland, Scioto and Ross, Pike, Clinton County
Ohio Sexual Violence Helpline
844-OHIO-HELP (844-644-6435)
https://www.ohiosexualviolencehelpline.com/
Adams, Clermont and Brown County
513-381-5610
https://womenhelpingwomen.org/ for the 24/7 help line and live chat at the bottom of their website.
Jackson and Galia County
Square One
740-441-5809
Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program
740-591-4266
Vinton County
Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program
740-591-4266
Meigs County
Square One
740-441-5809
LOCAL PANTRIES AND SHELTERS




Hope House in Wilmington, Ohio
A Safe Place for Women and Children
495 East Locust St.
Wilmington, OH 45177
(937) 366-1123
Need Overnight Shelter?
Women and accompanying children are welcome to stay at Hope House. Intake is from 8-9:30 p.m. No alcohol, marijuana, or illegal drugs may be used on the premises. For more information:
Call: (937) 366-1123
Email: hopehouse45177@gmail.com
Message our Facebook page: facebook.com/WilmingtonHopeHouse
We are going to create a community transportation system for Adams County and surrounding counties. If this is something you would be interested in helping create, you know where to find us!
FRS Transportation has provides Non-Emergency Medical Transportation(NET) to Adams, Highland and Brown County residents and also includes eligibility thru Medicaid. FRS also provides job and educational training transportation thru the TANF program of the Highland County Department of Jobs and Family Services(HCDJFS).

"Ohio continues to restrict gender-affirming care for trans youth. Now, many families are making alternative plans for their children's healthcare and their lives.
Trans Ohio has already fielded hundreds of calls and provided thousands of dollars in aid for travel and moving expenses to Ohio's trans adults and families facing regulatory threats to their bodily autonomy, healthcare and safety."

https://portsmouthcityhealth.org/
T.R.A.A.G. The Rural Aids Advisory Group
For those who are HIV+, allies or a community partner.
Offers free HIV screenings, hep C testing, sexual health, prep and pep and education.
First Capital Pride Coalition in Chillicothe hosts free market days for all in the area. You can see all the information you would need in the flyers and in our calendar on the homepage and you can more on their website at https://www.firstcapitalpride.org/. We all need a little help sometimes.
Free Markets are every 3rd Saturday of the month 12-3pm at the Library.
Youth Support Group by FCP One Monday a month 5-7pm
Youth Activities Group 3rd Fridays of the month at 7-9pm
147 N. Bridge St.
ABORTION CARE AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE
Abortion in Ohio is legal up to 21 weeks and 6 days.
Two Methods for ending a pregnancy: Medication abortion and in-clinic abortion. Both are safe and are effective.
Medication (aka abortion pills) consist of taking two medications: mifepristone and misopristol. If it has been 12 weeks or less since your first day of your last period, you'll likely receive a medication abortion. If it has been 14-16 weeks or more since your first day of your last period, you will likely receive an in-clinic abortion.
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio
(800)230-7526
PPSW operates two surgical centers located in Cincinnati and Dayton. Both offers medication and in-clinic abortion services. Patients under 18 must have a parent or guardian.
Cincinnati Surgical Center
2314 Auburn Ave. Cincinnati
Dayton Surgical Center
1401 E. Stroop Rd. Dayton, Ohio

Southern Ohio Pregnancy Center
Free pregnancy services
Monday - Thursday: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
135 W. Walnut
Hillsboro, OH 45133
(937) 393-2990
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