Navigating State Assistance
Guidance understanding benefit options, application steps, and connections to healthcare, food, and financial assistance resources.
Explore your options ↗DELAWARE • COMMUNITY • POSSIBILITY
Life beyond
survival mode.
A place to find direction, build stability, and take your next step—with support along the way.
FOOD. SHELTER. CLOTHING.AND A PATH FORWARD.
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OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE INC.More connection.
More possibility.
More life.
Meet people where they are.Build on their strengths.Move forward together.
01 / OUR PURPOSE
Meeting immediate needs.
Opening future possibilities.
Out of Survival Mode Inc. is a nonprofit organization rooted in the belief that everyone deserves access to life's essentials—and the opportunity to thrive.
Our mission brings together food, shelter, clothing, resource navigation, and community support. We help people make sense of available options, identify their next steps, and move toward greater stability and independence.
Let's find a starting point ↗02 / PATHWAYS TO STABILITY
Support for the
whole journey.
Explore OSM's program areas.
Contact us to discuss current availability
and community referral options.
Housing Hope
Help identifying housing resources, understanding assistance options, and planning next steps toward a more stable living situation.
Find a starting point ↗Essential Needs Network
Connections to community food, clothing, and other essential resources that support dignity and daily stability.
Connect with resources ↗Golden Years Support
Resource navigation for older adults and their families, including community supports, transportation options, and benefits information.
Talk through your needs ↗Pathway to Reentry
Mentoring and resource connections for people returning to the community, with a focus on practical goals and rebuilding stability.
Plan your next step ↗Empower Your Future
Connections to employment and training resources, goal setting, and support navigating the path toward greater independence.
Explore opportunities ↗MORE WAYS TO GROW
Financial Freedom Coaching · Fatherhood Empowerment · Youth Rising · Fitness & Wellness
YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT ALONE.03 / HEALING MINDS AND LIVES
Mental health.
Substance use.
Human connection.
Compassionate support starts with listening.
Healing Minds and Lives focuses on mental health literacy, reducing stigma, supportive mentoring, and connections to community treatment and recovery resources. This includes helping people affected by opioid or stimulant use find appropriate support and understand their options.
- Understanding available support and referral options
- Connecting with qualified mental health and substance use providers
- Identifying transportation, benefits, and other practical barriers to care
- Following up, with permission, on whether a referral led to a connection
- Encouraging connection, dignity, and recovery
- Listening to community feedback to improve access to support
Our volunteer navigator tools support training records, referral follow-up, and private activity summaries. We respect each participant’s choices and do not ask people to stop prescribed treatment to receive navigation support.
OSM's role is community support and resource navigation. Clinical assessment, counseling, medication management, and treatment are provided by appropriately qualified professionals.
Connect with OSM ↗COMMUNITY-LED CONNECTION
More than a referral.
A plan to follow through.
We are developing a community navigation approach for individuals and families in Kent and Sussex counties, including rural communities where finding and reaching support can be difficult.
Listen without judgment
Start with the person's priorities, strengths, and preferences. Respect their choices and permission to coordinate support.
Connect to appropriate resources
Explore mental health, opioid and stimulant use, treatment, and recovery resources with qualified community providers. Identify practical access barriers along the way.
Follow the next step
Plan a follow-up to learn whether the connection happened and what remains unresolved, rather than assuming a referral completed the work.
Learn from the work
Our staff workspace supports tracking contacts, referrals, reported connections, and follow-up tasks. These records help us improve navigation; they do not represent clinical treatment outcomes.
04 / START WHERE YOU ARE
One conversation.
A clearer next step.
01
Reach out
Tell us generally what you're looking for. You can start with a question.
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Explore the options
Discuss needs, strengths, and community resources that may fit your situation.
03
Move forward
Identify a practical next step and discuss available navigation or referral support.
COMMUNITY ACTION / VOLUNTEER WITH OSM
Small acts.
Cleaner communities.
Help care for the places we call home.
OSM is organizing community volunteer opportunities focused on neighborhood cleanup and picking up trash. Bring your willingness to help, connect with neighbors, and contribute to a cleaner shared environment.
Volunteer for a cleanup ↗OUR STARTING POINT
Neighborhood trash pickup
Our initial focus is collecting litter and picking up trash in community spaces.
Volunteer as a navigator
Volunteers can also serve as community navigators, helping people explore resources and follow through on next steps. Navigator access is approved by OSM and limited to assigned work.
Become a volunteer navigator ↗Recommended volunteer training
OSM recommends naloxone (Narcan) and opioid overdose response training for volunteers and navigators. Naloxone is a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. Learn to recognize an overdose and respond through training offered by outside providers.
Find free Delaware naloxone training & register ↗Learn about naloxone and where to get it ↗
Training is provided by external organizations. OSM recommends these resources and does not deliver or certify the courses.
Get involved
Individuals and community groups can contact OSM to express interest in navigation, volunteering, or helping organize a cleanup.
Planning together
Cleanup activities are in the planning stage. Contact us for updates on locations, dates, supplies, and participation requirements.
05 / STRONGER TOGETHER
Build a community
that helps people thrive.
Are you a community organization, shelter, treatment provider, employer, or someone interested in volunteering? Let's explore how we can connect people with useful support.
Start a partnership conversation ↗YOUR NEXT CHAPTER CAN START HERE.
Let's find
a way forward.
Questions, resource requests, referrals,
partnerships, and volunteer inquiries.
outofsurvivalmodeinc@gmail.com
Book an appointment ↗Free 30-minute phone appointments · Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM Eastern.
Choose a time and OSM will call you.