Consumer Services Guide (CSG)

Consumer Action Edition

The Consumer Services Guide is searchable directory of resources which can help you with consumer problems and questions. There are multiple editions of the ‘Guide’, some which deal with specific issues such as housing or credit. The full directory, the Consumer Service Guide Edition, provides access to all the resources collected by Consumer Action.

Listings for the City of Bethesda

These are the results for consumer specific consumer resources for MD. The listing is grouped by primary service category, then sorted alphabetically.

Consumer Information

• Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
  HLAA provides assistance and resources for people with hearing loss and their families to learn how to adjust to living with hearing loss. HLAA is working to eradicate the stigma associated with hearing loss and raise public awareness about the need for prevention and the importance of regular hearing screenings throughout life. (Bethesda, MD)
  
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and cure. (Bethesda, MD)
  
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
  NIDCD is a division of the National Institutes of Health. Site features information on a number of communication disorders, with updates on research being done on these disorders. (Bethesda, MD)
  

Consumer Protection

• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC’s work to ensure the safety of consumer products… (Bethesda, MD)
  
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and cure. (Bethesda, MD)
  

Disability Services

• Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
  HLAA provides assistance and resources for people with hearing loss and their families to learn how to adjust to living with hearing loss. HLAA is working to eradicate the stigma associated with hearing loss and raise public awareness about the need for prevention and the importance of regular hearing screenings throughout life. (Bethesda, MD)
  

Health, Diet and Fitness

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  Information, resources, and free publications relating to allergies and infectious diseases. (Bethesda, MD)
  
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and cure. (Bethesda, MD)
  
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
  NIDCD is a division of the National Institutes of Health. Site features information on a number of communication disorders, with updates on research being done on these disorders. (Bethesda, MD)
  
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  NIH is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. (Bethesda, MD)
  

Safety

• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC’s work to ensure the safety of consumer products… (Bethesda, MD)