Reusing This Content

Last updated: July 25, 2026

Short version: take it. Everything written on this site is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. You can copy it, reprint it, translate it, rewrite it, and use it commercially. You don’t need to ask us, and there is no fee.

Two conditions: credit us, and keep your version as open as this one.

We wrote this to be useful to people, and information that stays on one website helps fewer people than information that spreads.

Just need the phone numbers? Take them.

Facts aren’t copyrightable, and no license reaches them. Phone numbers, hours, income limits, filing deadlines, eligibility figures — take any of it, put it in anything, under any terms you like. Nothing below applies to you.

If you run a clinic, a school, an agency, or a helpline and you want our hotline list in your own intake packet, you are already free to do that. The license only matters if you are copying our writing.

What you can do with the writing

• Print a hotline list for a waiting room, a shelter, or a support group
• Put a benefits guide in an intake packet or a classroom handout
• Translate a page into a language we don’t cover
• Quote it in a newsletter, a zine, a training deck, or a book
• Build it into an app or a service, including one you charge for
• Correct it, shorten it, or rewrite it for your own audience

What we ask in return

1. Credit. Something like this is plenty:

Adapted from Disability Wiki (https://disabilitywiki.org), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Say if you changed something, and don’t suggest we endorse you.

2. Keep it open (ShareAlike). If you adapt, remix, or build on this writing, your version has to carry the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license. You can sell it; you just can’t close it. Nobody should be able to take a community resource, lock it up, and charge people for access to what was given freely.

This applies to adaptations. Quoting a page in something larger, or handing out an unmodified printout, doesn’t put the rest of your work under this license.

Please date your copy

This is a request, not a rule, and it matters more than the credit does.

Benefit rules change. Legal deadlines change. Crisis phone numbers get disconnected, and services quietly cut their hours. A printed copy that looks current but is two years stale can send someone to a dead number at the worst possible moment — that is worse than handing them nothing.

So: put a date on your copy, and point people back to the live page. If you are reprinting crisis information, check it against this site before each new print run. Our own crisis pages carry the date they were last reviewed for this reason.

The parts that aren’t ours to give

• Quoted material stays with whoever owns it. Where a page quotes a law, a standard, or an organization’s own wording, that piece isn’t ours to relicense.
• Logos and names — ours and other organizations’ — aren’t covered. The license covers writing, not trademarks.

Software

The code that builds this site and the mobile app is separate, and it’s MIT licensed — no share-alike condition there.

One thing this isn’t

A license is permission to copy. It is not a warranty, and it isn’t advice. Nothing on this site is legal, medical, or financial advice, and reusing a page doesn’t transfer any guarantee — from us to you, or from you to your readers. Check anything that someone’s housing, benefits, or safety depends on.

Questions

If you’re unsure whether something is covered, or you want to do something this page doesn’t address, ask: open an issue. We would rather answer than have you not use it.