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Oversees governmental contracts and grant offices.

Provides a licensed, full-service foster care and adoption agency. Provides services such as home studies, education and post placement supervision/reports for families pursuing a foster to adopt placement, domestic private, or international adoption. An affiliate of the PA Statewide Adoption Network. Provides post adoption/post permanency services to any adoptive or permanent kinship family in the area.

Assesses client's needs and helps client to access community-based services and resources. Arranges for in-home support, such as meal preparation, assistance with personal care, skilled counseling, house and yard work, transportation to medical appointments, and the reassurance of a personal emergency response system.

Provides mentoring, therapeutic and life skill groups for young people (ages 14 to 18) in the juvenile justice system.

Provides inpatient psychiatric care for children & adolescents.

Offers home visiting as a model of support for pregnant women and their families through 18 months postpartum. Families meet monthly with community health workers to improve maternal and child health through education, advocacy, case management, and referrals to community-based services. Eligible participants may receive diapers, books, educational toys, and other household items.

Offers before and after school care for children and youth.

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

Adopt-a-Family Giving Program connects groups, families or churches with families in need to provide gifts and food for holidays.

Provides assistance to taxpayers through online and in-person services, including account inquiries, tax forms, basic individual tax law assistance, payment processing, and payment arrangements. Offers online support for filing returns, making payments, checking refund status, viewing account information, obtaining transcripts, requesting identity protection or taxpayer advocate assistance, and accessing volunteer tax preparation.

Assists employers in retaining, recruiting, and hiring qualified workers. Job seekers are assisted in finding competitive employment. Services include resume and interview preparation, job-seeking skill development, community-based assessments, work site analysis for accommodations, job coaching supports, and follow-up services.

A full range of counseling, consultation, and training services to help employers and employees by providing support for behavioral health issues in the workplace

Offers new or secondhand furniture, appliances, clothing, toys and other material goods.

The City of Altoona's Fair Housing Program provides educational information and outreach programs to tenants, landlords, lending institutions, realtors, housing managers, contractors and anyone in the housing business regarding the Federal Fair Housing Laws. Free presentations are offered to anyone wishing to know more about the Federal Fair Housing Laws.

During extreme heat, provides space as a cooling center operational during normal business hours.

Provides library services, including book and media loan, e-Books, digital resources, and scheduled events.

Offers general medical and primary care services. Provides continuing and comprehensive healthcare for the individual and family across all ages, sexes, diseases, and parts of the body. Serves each patient in the context of the family and community, emphasizing disease prevention and health promotion.

Offers general medical and primary care services. Provides continuing and comprehensive healthcare for the individual and family across all ages, sexes, diseases, and parts of the body. Serves each patient in the context of the family and community, emphasizing disease prevention and health promotion.

Offers general medical and primary care services. Provides continuing and comprehensive healthcare for the individual and family across all ages, sexes, diseases, and parts of the body. Serves each patient in the context of the family and community, emphasizing disease prevention and health promotion.

Focusing on service to veterans, service members and communities. Programs for Family, Youth, Community and National Affairs. Help with VA claims, assistance in finding employment, support for current members of the military, and financial advice.

Supplies hearing aids to low income individuals.

Distributes food items to those in need on a first come, first served basis, until food runs out.

Classes offered for reading, writing and math skills.

Offers legal clinics staffed by law students who provide legal representation and counseling to low-income clients. Provides legal services in different areas of practice including elder law, environmental law, family law, tax law, and securities arbitration.

Family Centers, located at Jefferson and Central Elementary Schools, coordinate and facilitate a variety of support services for Allentown School District families. Family Centers seek to ensure the healthy growth and development of children by coordinating a wide variety of support services for families in the communities in which they live. These services include:

• Parent Support and Child Development Education
• Pediatric Health Services
• Healthy After-School and Summer Activities
• Family Preservation Services
• Education and Employment-Related Services

Family Development Specialist certified in parent education home visits meet groups of parent sand provide assessments and support to parents for their children from pregnancy through kindergarten. They facilitate access to needed services and coordinate case management services. Health centers are also located in the elementary schools served by the Family Centers. Collaborative partners representing health, communitie