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Provides free, confidential assistance for individuals seeking substance use or gambling treatment and recovery services. In addition to one-on-one navigation, the Addiction Resource Center provides free brochures, educational materials, and speaking engagements for individuals and community organizations throughout Chester County.

Offers a smoking cessation program available for patients who show the desire to want to quit smoking.

Lancaster County's one-stop shop for information on alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling. Information & referral staff provide answers to questions about addiction and provide referrals to treatment and support via phone, email, or web chat. Offers a film streaming library and brochure clearinghouse free of charge to the public.

Freedom from Smoking is an 8-week program developed by the American Lung Association. Topics covered included personal addiction to tobacco products, overcoming cravings, stress management, and tips to prevent relapse. Facilitated by a trained and certified instructor.

Improves access and the health of the community through the delivery of coordinated comprehensive services for all ages and residents of Berks County regardless of their economic status.

Prevention, education, advocacy, enforcement for pregnant women using tobacco. Patients offered free diapers for compliance with quitting smoking.

Prevention, education, advocacy, enforcement and one-on-one/group therapy for individuals, worksites, schools, etc. In some cases, Nicotine Replacement Therapy is also utilized for cessation services.

Offers a variety of classes and activities to promote a healthy lifestyle to persons of all ages and abilities.

The Health Dept. offers a wide variety of educational and preventive programs and consulting services. Programs are available to schools, businesses, community organization, etc., and can be tailored to fit most health topics. Available programs include cancer prevention, cardiovascular health and screenings, childhood lead poisoning prevention, dental health, falls prevention, tobacco control, nutrition and physical activity, Lyme Disease and osteoporosis.

Offers a variety of evidence-based health intervention programs to address a wide range of chronic health conditions such as arthritis, high blood pressure, cancer survivorship, diabetes, fall prevention, prediabetes, tobacco cessation, and weight management.

Provides a variety of programs to residents in regards to personal and professional development, as well as parenting skills classes. These programs encompass health, domestic violence prevention and avoidance, financial education, career workshops, and new parent planning.

Provides extensive information on tips for quitting smoking, how to help others quit, and the benefits of quitting smoking.

Improves access and the health of the community through the delivery of coordinated comprehensive services for all ages and residents of Berks County regardless of their economic status.

Operates a call center. Provides information on topics including allergies, how to quit smoking, and environmental issues. Offers physician referrals.

Tobacco cessation program supplements the care that patients receive from their primary care providers. During primary care appointments, provider will assess readiness to quit smoking. When you are ready, a certified cessation specialists will strategize with help come up with an action plan to quit.

Provides a 10-week program that combines educational materials, behavioral counseling, and nicotine patches/gum to assist and support individuals in their effort to quit using tobacco.

The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North Central PA, offers:Resources/training related to language translation, housing, income benefits, mobility/transportation, education, communication, assistive technology, advocacy, budgeting, household management, mentoring, and socialization/recreation geared toward persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Sign Language Instruction. Assistance with obtaining an Interpreter/Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART). Instruction of the Pennsylvania Driver's Manual. Public awareness/sensitivity training regarding persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Information about Videophones/Video Relay Interpreting Services and resources on how to go about getting a videophone. Assistance with getting equipment via the TDDP such as a TTY, CapTel, amplified telephone, etc. A New Start program through Roads to Freedom, an Assistive Technology reuse/recycle program, may be able to provide donated equipment.

Provides a social rehabilitation program with recovery-oriented opportunities to build academic, social, recreational/leisure, educational, and daily living skills through group and individual learning opportunities.

Offers adult mental health consumers recovery-oriented opportunities to build academic, social, recreational/leisure, educational/vocational, and daily living skills. Provides psychoeducational group and individual learning opportunities, including money management, wellness, and arts and crafts.

Provides outpatient and in-home mental health services to children, adults, and families. Specializies in children's evaluations and services.

Offers medical services. Offers Intensive Case Management services such as drug and alcohol treatment, support groups, child care services, parenting skills development, transportation needs, housing, educational/vocational, mental health, life skills, and home visitations.

Provides vocational rehabilitation services to help persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment. OVR provides services to eligible individuals with disabilities, both directly and through a network of approved vendors. Services are provided on an individualized basis. The OVR counselor, during face-to-face interviews, assists customers in selecting their choice of vocational goals, services and service providers. An Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) is developed, outlining a vocational objective, services, providers and responsibilities. Certain services are subject to a Financial Needs Test (FNT) and may require financial participation by the customer. Counseling and guidance, diagnostic services, assessments, information and referral, job development and placement, and personal services such as readers or sign language interpreters are provided at no cost to the individual.

Provides vocational rehabilitation services to help persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment. OVR provides services to eligible individuals with disabilities, both directly and through a network of approved vendors. Services are provided on an individualized basis. The OVR counselor, during face-to-face interviews, assists customers in selecting their choice of vocational goals, services and service providers. An Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) is developed, outlining a vocational objective, services, providers and responsibilities. Certain services are subject to a Financial Needs Test (FNT) and may require financial participation by the customer. Counseling and guidance, diagnostic services, assessments, information and referral, job development and placement, and personal services such as readers or sign language interpreters are provided at no cost to the individual.

Facilities and their respective services include:

• University Hospital offers acute services such as cardio-thoracic surgery, high-risk obstetrical care, neonatal intensive care, adult and pediatric cancer treatment, transplant surgery and brain/spinal cord injuries surgery and rehabilitation. Also serves as the local chapter for the Children's Miracle Network

For further information on this organization, contact: Jennifer Groff, Coordinator(717)531-4113 Children's Miracle Network Penn State Hershey Medical Center A190 PO Box 855 Hershey, PA 17033-0855

• University Physicians Center houses outpatient services which include basic family medicine, obstetric/gynecologic care and specialty services in diabetes, multiple sclerosis, hearing and vision problems, and hemodialysis. Psychiatric services include individual/family counseling and child psychiatric diagnostic services
• Hemophilia Center provides diagnostic services, distribution of blood products, physical the

Provides vocational rehabilitation services to help persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain employment. OVR provides services to eligible individuals with disabilities, both directly and through a network of approved vendors. Services are provided on an individualized basis. The OVR counselor, during face-to-face interviews, assists customers in selecting their choice of vocational goals, services and service providers. An Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE) is developed, outlining a vocational objective, services, providers and responsibilities. Certain services are subject to a Financial Needs Test (FNT) and may require financial participation by the customer. Counseling and guidance, diagnostic services, assessments, information and referral, job development and placement, and personal services such as readers or sign language interpreters are provided at no cost to the individual.