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PANTRY

Lehigh Community Services Pantry is open for food distribution by appointment only. This measure is to help to protect both the staff and people seeking food assistance.

For an appointment – call (239) 369-5818, Monday – Friday 9:00 am-4:30pm

Due to the size of the parking area – Please do not arrive before your appointment time; and do not get out of your vehicle. We need to be able to serve the appointments as scheduled – early arrivals will interfere with this and slow down the delivery to the vehicles.

Please do not exit the vehicle or form groups in the parking area. The staff will deliver the food to your vehicle.

This service is limited to once every 30 days.

OFFICE

Lehigh Community Services is open for SNAP applications, scanning documents to Department of Children and Family, Utility Assistance and help filling out and scanning documents for the Lee Cares Individual Assistance, etc. These services are by appointment only. Funds are available to help with utility bills for those who have been effected by COVID-19. Please note this office does not do housing assistance (rent or mortgage).

For an appointment – call (239) 369-5818, Monday – Friday 9:00 am-4:30pm

Please do not arrive before your appointment time, staff will let you into the office which continues to be closed to walk-ins.
Please wear a face mask
Please note that there is no Public restroom at this time
Please no more than 2 people for an appointment
If you are sick, please reschedule the appointment

TAXES – VITA Free Service

Volunteers are doing free income taxes – this is a drop-off service provided on Tuesday and Thursday. You must have an appointment.

For an appointment – call (239) 433-7206 or (239) 369-5818, Monday – Friday 9:00 am-4:30pm

Volunteers will do all the intake paperwork for you and have the taxes ready for pick-up the following week.

2020 Back to School Back Pack and School Supply Event Registration

This year’s event will be a drive through pick-up event, we are working on the details now and will share everything as it becomes available. Registration is for Kindergarten – 12^th grade, students attending Lehigh Acres Schools, Lehigh Acres residents can apply.

Registration is REQUIRED

Please read carefully to see the best way to register for your Lehigh Acres Students:

If you registered for the event at New Life Assembly last year, Please call Lehigh Community Services to register Monday – Friday, 9 am – 11:30 am and 1pm – 4:30 pm. (239) 369-5818 starting Monday, June 22, please note that our phone lines are very busy, if you get our voice mail or a busy signal please hang up and try again. Registering this way helps us get the registrations completed as soon as possible and practice safety measures. (Note) If we need additional information from you we will schedule you an appointment at the office).

If you did not register last year: We will be doing appointments for registration in our office until July 17, or until the registration is full. So you have plenty of options and time to get registered. To get an appointment call (239) 369-5818. You will need to have your photo id and birth certificates/proof of guardianship/custody for each student you are registering. This will be done in the parking lot, through the window of the vehicle.

Thank you so much for helping us get this all done in the safest way possible for you and our volunteers.

Servicios de  Lehigh Community Services  Regreso a la escuela

 Inscripciones Para Mochila y Utiles Escolares:

La inscripción es para los estudiantes de Lehigh Acres que asisten a los colegios de Lehigh Acres SOLAMENTE desde Kindergarten – 12 ° grado.

Lea atentamente para ver la mejor manera de registrarse para su (s) estudiante (s) de Lehigh Acres:

Si se inscribió para el evento el año pasado en New Life Assembly o con nosotros directamente llame a Lehigh Community Services para inscribirse por telefono de lunes a viernes de 9am – 11:30 am y de 1pm- 4:30pm al (239) 369-5818 a partir lunes 22 de junio hasta el 17 de julio o hasta que el cupo se acabe.

Si no se registró el año pasado, comuníquese con nuestra oficina para programar una cita para registrarse en nuestra oficina hasta el 17 de julio o hasta que el cupo se acabe.  Para obtener una cita llame al (239) 369-5818.

Por favor tenga en cuenta que nuestras líneas telefónicas están muy ocupadas, si cuando llame, recibe nuestro correo de voz o una señal de ocupado, cuelgue e intente llamar nuevamente.  NO deje mensaje en la maquina contestadora.

Registrarse de esta manera nos ayuda a completar los registros lo antes posible y a practicar medidas de seguridad. 

(Nota) Si necesitamos información adicional de usted, le programaremos una cita en la oficina).

Muchas gracias por ayudarnos a hacer todo esto de la manera más segura posible para usted y nuestro voluntarios.

Welcome to Lehigh Community Services and the Lehigh Acres United Way House

We are a local 501(c)3 organization working to assist Lehigh Acres residents in need of various services within our community.

Lehigh Community Services is a United Way Partner Agency, we offer a food pantry, emergency utility bill assistance (dependent on funding availability), assistance completing food stamp (SNAP) and Medicaid applications online, additional programs and services are listed on this site.

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Lehigh Community Services is a year-round site for the VITA program; anyone who needs to file taxes, this year or previous years can call for an appointment.
(239) 369-5818

Appointments are being done by appointment, as a drop-off service, all clients will remain in their car. For an appointment please call  (239) 433-7206 or (239) 369-5818

Other filing options:

IRS FREE File https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free

MYFREETAXES.com for simple returns  https://www.myfreetaxes.com/

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