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Operates a hotline that connects individuals with sexual and reproductive health services, HIV and STI testing, family-planning counseling, and related education through a network of community providers. Supports with confidential, low-barrier access to contraception, pregnancy testing, cancer screening, and preventive health resources.

Provides an evidence-based home visiting program that supports parents as their child’s first teacher. Certified Family Development Specialists partner with parents to increase their knowledge of child development and to advance their child’s critical skills starting from the prenatal stage and continuing through kindergarten. Program Emphasis: A) Parent-Child Interaction B) Early Learning C) School Readiness D) Early Childhood Health/Development Screenings E) Overall Family Well-being

Offers services necessary to establish and resolve paternity issues. Child support matters are filed through this office. Office is responsible for the establishment and enforcement of child support orders. Also files spousal support and alimonyy support. This office does not deal with cusotdy or divorce matters.

Provides materials and information for life, work, and pleasure. Collections include books, DVDs, audiobooks, magazines, eBooks, and eAudiobooks. Warming center is available for individuals and families.

Offers a range of social and recreational activities including book club, history club, crafts, genealogy, pool tables, shuffleboard, and more.

Residential halfway house for recovering male alcoholics/addicts. Primary focuses are on abstinence, recovery and re-socialization. Residents are responsible for care of their room, house chores and active participation in the house program. The house program includes: -Individual, family and group counseling -Recreational activities -Treatment planning -In-house A.A. meetings -Educational lectures -Work therapy -Aftercare planning and counseling -Employment counseling -Budget counseling -Management of a female recovery house for clients interested in transitional housing that supports a recovery-oriented lifestyle (referred from program) A Lancaster County contracted residential substance abuse treatment provider.

Offers supportive housing for older adults and/or people with disabilities who are unable to function in an independent living environment because they need assistance with toileting, bathing, dressing, medication management and administration, meals and housekeeping and other activities of daily living, but do not require nursing care on a regular basis.

Provides a weekly food pantry of supplemental food items.

Through the Sexual Integrity Program, clients learn the way to improve their "love life" by relationship education and self-esteem building. The youth program, Destinations, is the abstinence education division of Crossroads Pregnancy Center, providing education in public schools and youth groups in the community.

Opportunities to volunteer in a variety of areas

Provides drop-in, walk-out diagnostic and treatment services. Also offers counseling services to individuals experiencing stressful life situations such as separation, divorce, unemployment, family violence, delinquency, substance abuse, and more. Services are tailored to meet the needs of each individual.

This program provides free groceries and essential food items to eligible individuals and families in need.

Provides legal representation for individuals whose rights have been violated by a housing provider. The program is able to file complaints with HUD and PHRC and to fully represent the individual at all stages of the process, free of charge.

Administers major federal grant programs and supports the Department of Community Planning and Economic Development in building strong neighborhoods and elevating quality of life for residents in the City of Lancaster. Promotes equitable and sustainable community development with delivering programs that facilitate safe and affordable housing options, improve environmental conditions, create economic opportunity and stability, reduce homelessness, and increase access to services.

Provides critical repairs to homes owned and/or occupied by military veterans. Repairs may include roof, gutters, windows, doors, plumbing, electrical, heat, structural hazards, and limited water and mold remediation.

Provides free classes and tutoring for adults in basic reading, to prepare for the High School Equivalency test (HSE), and to Learn English as a Second Language (ESL). Administers additional classes that include Citizenship Classes, the Next Step Program helping students to prepare for a career, higher education, and workplace goals, HiSET Testing Location in York County, and the Home of BUCK A BOOK® Reading Program held in York County Schools. Offers volunteer opportunities to be tutors with training provided.

This program provides free groceries and essential food items to eligible individuals and families in need.

Offers a mobile public library.

Offers a free summer meals program that includes in-person breakfast and lunch.

Provides shared-ride transportation to medical appointments, senior centers, and senior center sponsored activities (such as group grocery shopping and other social activities).

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the new name for the Food Stamp program. These benefits are used to buy food and help eligible low-income households in Pennsylvania obtain more nutritious diets by increasing their food purchasing power at grocery stores and supermarkets.

Provides outpatient mental health counseling and 24 Hour Crisis Intervention services.

High quality early learning environments have a direct impact on your child’s ability to prosper and develop to their fullest potential. Children who participate in quality learning programs tend to be more successful in school, are more competent socially and emotionally, and show higher verbal and intellectual development. Providing an infant program that promotes a standard of quality essential for optimal growth and development in the first year of life. Certified teachers provide a nurturing, safe and stimulating "small group" environment. Self imposed limit of 3 infants encourages continuous staff/child interaction. Children in the play-centered toddler program are guided through development in learning areas aligned with age appropriate PA Learning Standards. These areas include speech and language development, social and emotional growth, physical and motor activities, and creative expression. Also, providing a full day preschool with a well-developed curriculum that is aligned with PA Learning Standards. Our program is child-centered using the Creative Curriculum with learning areas in creative arts, language and literacy, mathematics, social & emotional development, large motor activities (including swim lessons), science and social studies. Learning activities and group lessons are repeated to provide optimal experience.

Offers assistance to improve the political, educational, social, and economic status of minority groups. Seeks to eliminate racial prejudice, to keep the public aware of the adverse effects of racial discrimination, and to take lawful action to secure its elimination.

Provides library services throughout Allegheny County.