Help shouldn’t be hard to find.
I’m Tasha D. Ellis, and I created My Brother and Sister Hope — MyBaSH — to put real help at your fingertips. If you need housing, a safe place to stay tonight, food for your family, a free class to move forward, or support for your mental health, you shouldn’t have to search all over to find it.
Why I built MyBaSH
I kept seeing the same problem: help exists, but people in a hard moment can’t find it fast enough — or don’t know it exists at all.
The help is out there. Finding it is the hard part.
Across Philadelphia, there are free programs for housing help, adult classes, food, shelter, and mental health support. But too often that information is scattered, out of date, buried on different websites, or shared only by word of mouth.
When you’re worried about where you’ll sleep, how you’ll feed your family, or where to turn for support, you don’t have time to hunt. You need one trusted place to start. That’s why I built MyBaSH.
Not known publicly — many free services never reach the people who need them most.
Not easy to access — information is spread across sites, flyers, and phone numbers.
Needed right now — a crisis doesn’t wait for office hours or a long search.
You are welcome here.
Whether you’re here for yourself, for your family, or for someone you love — welcome. You don’t need to have it all figured out to start. You just need a place to begin.
That’s what My Brother and Sister Hope is for. Browse the resources, share this page with someone who might need it, and remember: needing help doesn’t make you a burden. It makes you human — and you are not alone.
If you need help right now: If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911. For a mental health crisis in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — free, confidential, 24/7.
With hope,
Tasha