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Provides a A 24-hour walk-in facility. The CRSU is available to divert crisis situations where individuals may need added support on a 24-hour basis but do not quite need the level of safety support provided by an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Crisis counselors can help connect these individuals with services and resources to be successful in the community. It is an 8 bed unit that provides a less restrictive option to help manage individuals in crisis.

Academic Specialists provide free help with education goals. Services include career planning, assistance with financial aid applications, information on entering post-secondary schools, GED information, and academic and educational counseling. Talent Search complements the EOC program by helping to prepare adolescents for post secondary education including SAT Prep.

Assists government officials in responding to or handling companion animal and domestic livestock needs during a disaster. Temporary animal sheltering for any numbers of domesticated animals from any emergency or disaster situation: fires, floods, power outages, entrapments, evacuations, vehicle accidents, etc.

Provides employment services that adapt to individual needs and focuses on each person's abilities and goals.

Offers mentoring and support for expectant fathers to further support their partners in pregnancy and parenting.

Maintains website that allows members of the public to search for their Representatives' and Senators' contact information.

Operates as an electric distribution cooperative. Provides efficient and safe electricity services to members.

Provides housing options for individuals with a history of, as well as current, mental health needs. These options range from independent individual apartment living, through fully-supervised group living sites in both urban rural settings.

Offers child support orders and enforcement, including establishing paternity for out of wedlock children, establishment of court orders when one party resides outside of Erie County; uses Federal Parent Locator Service to locate missing parent.

Offers a peer-led support group for individuals living with mental health conditions, offering a confidential space to share experiences, develop coping skills, and find community with others who understand.

Advocates for families and students who educate their children at home according to the Home Education statute. Provides encouragement and resources. Assists new homeschoolers. Provides academic and social interaction with others who share similar concerns and educational goals. Offers support groups and events such as expos, seminars, and enrichment activities.

Provides quilts to comfort children, youth, and young adults facing serious illness, injury, or trauma.

Provides all-inclusive program of medical and social services to empower older adults to remain at home, while preserving their dignity, independence, and quality of life.

Offers various recreational programs, day camps and after school programs.

Provides physical, emotional and spiritual comfort in times of disaster. Disaster volunteers are trained to assist in all kinds of emergencies by providing food, clothing, shelter or financial resources to those affected by such calamity.

Program that offers the services of paraprofessional aides who provide assistance with personal hygiene (bathing, grooming and mouth care), clothing care, ambulation, seating, toileting, housekeeping (changing bed linens or other chores that are essential to the individual's health and comfort), food preparation and nutritional and environmental support for recently discharged hospital patients, elderly people and people with disabilities in their own homes or other settings. Personal care may also include supervision which involves cueing, reminding, prompting or directing daily activities, as needed, but does not include medical services.

Provides food bank boxes (items vary each week but expect: Milk, Eggs, Vegetables, and Fruits).

Provides services and support to learn skills needed to work at the job of choice in the community. Services include job finding, job coaching, supportive employment, community based work assessments, discovery profiles, customized employment, career assessments, and on-the-job training.

Assists with shelter search and connections to housing providers for people who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness.

Provides emergency food assistance.

Offers a safe drop-in space for TGNC folk in Allegheny County. Provides access to clothing, toiletries, food, and computers, as well as referrals to vetted trans-competent service providers, and intakes to other programs as needed.

Victim Notification Services offers an automated statewide notification system for crime victims. If the offender is serving time in a state or county prison, victims can register for Pennsylvania SAVIN. SAVIN is a free, confidential, and automated service that helps victims, their friends and/or family, along with any concerned citizen, track the status of an offender within the Commonwealth.

Provides inpatient mental health care for persons who are considered to be a danger to self and/or others. A multi-disciplinary team, under the direction of a psychiatrist, provides individualized goal directed treatment. Offers a wide variety of treatment, rehabilitation, and educational programs.

Provides substance abuse outpatient and intensive outpatient counseling services. Also acts as a point of entry into the system of care by providing drug and alcohol assessments and referral services Services include:

• Assessments
• Individual, group, and family counseling sessions
• Individualized treatment planning based on client-defined needs
• Relapse prevention planning

Provides non-medical caregiver assistant care services that include bathing, transfers from bed to wheelchair, personal grooming, hygiene, homemaking, meal preparation, family respite, medication reminders, safety supervision, Alzheimer care, companionship, and transportation.