Marion County’s Resource Directory

The Multiagency Network for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities (SEDNET) creates and facilitates a network of key stakeholders committed to assisting in the provision of a quality system of care for students with or at-risk of emotional and/or behavioral challenges.

We enhance the quality of life for seniors through trusted, compassionate, and personalized care—wherever they call home. Our carefully selected caregivers serve Marion, Sumter, and Lake counties with flexible, reliable support and no contracts required.

Services Include:

•Personal Care & ADLs: Bathing, grooming, dressing, mobility support, medication reminders, toileting, and daily routines.

•Companionship: Meaningful conversation, social engagement, hobbies, outings, and appointment accompaniment.

•Homemaker Support: Light housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, grocery shopping, and errands.

•Transportation: Safe, dependable transport to medical visits, therapy, shopping, and community activities.

•Respite Care: Temporary relief for family caregivers with flexible scheduling.

•Specialized Care: Alzheimer’s/dementia support, post-surgery/rehab assistance, and companionship in assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing facilities, or hospitals.

Founded in 2011, we are a family owned, faith-based company that helps clients find True Solutions to their senior living and care needs. Our services are No Cost to families because of our partnerships with vetted senior living communities and home care providers. We provide resources to our clients and strive to advocate for improved quality of senior care. Senior Provisions serves Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida.

Description: Marion Senior Services is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the independence and well-being of older adults and individuals with disabilities throughout Marion County. Established in the 1970s, the agency provides comprehensive in-home support, case management, caregiver assistance, and transportation services that help seniors remain independent and avoid institutional care.

As the designated Community Transportation Coordinator for Marion County, Marion Senior Services operates public paratransit and ADA-accessible transportation in partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation, the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged, and SunTran.

Core Services:

• In-home and caregiver support programs
• Case management and care coordination
• Volunteer-based assistance services
• Public paratransit and ADA transportation
• Information, referral, and resource navigation

At Shadetree Christian Counseling, we exist to encourage, equip, and empower individuals, couples, and families to flourish—spiritually, emotionally, and relationally. Rooted in the truth of Scripture and supported by proven psychological principles, our approach integrates biblical wisdom, clinical insight, and temperament-based understanding to help you experience lasting change.

We believe every person is uniquely designed by God. Through tools like the Arno Profile System (APS), we help uncover your God-given temperament—how you are wired to give and receive love, handle stress, and connect in relationships. This allows us to move beyond surface-level solutions and address the deeper patterns shaping your life.

Our goal is simple: for you to feel known, understood, and supported—and to leave with practical tools that lead to real transformation.

Shepherd’s LightHouse has years of experience in helping families and individuals through life’s storms. Shepherd’s LightHouse has many different programs to help our communities homeless families. We are a non-profit that is funded by various different groups allowing us to help with the needs of our clients.

Along with a successful transitional living program, we also manage affordable apartment living, Bridgeway Apartments.

The Thrift Store provides us with regular income and it provides volunteer opportunities for the community. The store also provides a means for our clients to learn skills such as customer service, displaying and cashier.

Shepherd’s LightHouse continues to do outreach through the community with school supply drives and gifts for holidays such as Christmas.

Mental health, addiction recovery and trauma treatment. Red Line Rescue provider for fire/EMT, veteran/military sensitivity and trained. EMDR trained and Certified in treating sexual addiction and betrayal trauma.

SNAP provides nutritional support for low-income seniors, people with disabilities living on fixed incomes, and other individuals and families with low incomes. SNAP is a federal program administered by the Florida Department of Children and Families Office of Economic Self-Sufficiency (ESS). ESS is responsible for determining eligibility for SNAP using federal guidelines.

Sober Escorts provides individualized support services to those in recovery from addictions and/or mental health issues. We offer full time live in Recovery Companion services, Recovery and Life Coaching, Intervention Services, Case Management, Treatment referral and consultation and safe passage transportation to and from treatment around the globe.

We’re a national recruiting and staffing enterprise that blends the resources of the world’s most equitable and specialized talent company with the local insights of our independent franchise owners. A pioneer in the staffing industry, we’ve been providing companies with the workforce solutions they need for over 75 years while helping people find jobs and build careers where they can thrive.

To provide therapeutic horseback riding, carriage driving, equine assisted therapy, and Special Olympics to anyone with physical, mental and emotional challenges, and to improve the quality of life for these individuals with the opportunity for emotional, educational, and physical growth through horsemanship, competition, and the healing power of the horse.

Gain Financial Stability Through Strong Families!

Strong Families Powered by United Way of Marion County is a program focused on helping families develop financial stability and ending generational poverty through education, skill, and career development.

This initiative connects 80-90 adults and children to personal success coaches each year, helping to address homelessness, increase income, and decrease debt. Success coaches work with the families for an entire year in bi-weekly sessions.

Families interested in the program may be referred by a local agency and can register at http://www.uwmc.org/StrongFamilies.