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Promotes the concerns that affect the deaf and hard of hearing community. Provides sign language classes, interpreting, training on the use of TTY, and advocacy.

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Advocacy
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Sign Language Interpretation
Provides services pertaining to community integration, case and care management, housing assistance, legal counseling referrals, and job finding assistance. Explicit protections are made for victims of sex trafficking.

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Legal Counseling
General Crime Prevention Programs
Housing Search Assistance
Advocacy
General Benefits Assistance
Refugee Resettlement Services
Specialized Information and Referral
Administers, monitors, and coordinates Early Intervention services and services for people with an intellectual disAbility. Coordinates service providers that offer a broad range of supports and services including supports coordination, early intervention services, in-home supports and respite services, employment and adult day services, and community living and Lifesharing services.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Advocacy
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Provides a sustained and comprehensive advocacy program at the state and national levels to increase public funding for lupus research, education and patient services, and to foster public policies that help people with lupus and their families. Sponsors media campaigns to educate the public and raise awareness.

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Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Media Materials
Advocacy
Provides family therapy, case management and emergency crisis intervention family support services, including emergency on-call crisis intervention. Also provides family support and stabilization services, including assisting financially in meeting specific needs of the family as well as funding additional or creative methods of working with the family.

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Family Counseling
In Person Crisis Intervention
Home Based Mental Health Services
Family Support Centers/Outreach
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Advocacy
Mental Health Evaluation
Works to advance policies and system reforms. The program is designed to facilitate the development and preservation of affordable homes, build stronger neighborhood shopping districts, advance equitable neighborhood revitalization and address resident needs.
Advocates on behalf of children who are involved in the child welfare system including abused or neglected children placed in foster homes, delinquent youth sent to residential treatment facilities or adult prisons, or children in placement with specialized service needs. Does not offer direct service or representation.

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Advocacy
Adoption/Foster Care Issues
Provides staff-supported living arrangements alongside other clients with 24/7 care.
Provides community services: ministerial counseling in the areas of life and career coaching (including recommendations as needed for holistic or alternative medicine) as well as community services coordination to help at risk individuals connect with resources and as needed help with applications and or advocacy to resources.

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Life Coaching
Career Development
Advocacy
Alternative Medicine
Offers a series of trainings, technical assistance and information sharing. Key topic areas in training include: A) Real Estate Development B) Commercial Corridor Revitalization C) Communications D) Community Engagement

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Advocacy
Fundraising and Resource Development Support
Financial Management Support
Provides advocacy for tenants who are having difficulties getting the hazardous lead removed from their homes. It also educates tenants on how to get help and care for their lead poisoned children. Provides Lead inspections

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Lead Testing
Advocacy
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Support Services and Consumer Resources offers assistance on a variety of legal, financial and health services. Age eligibility may apply. Services available include: A) Financial and Legal Advice B) Benefit Screenings and Application Assistance C) Medicare and Healthcare Options; APPRISE Counselor D) Assistance with LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program). E) Access to Other Agencies and Government Services

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Elder Law
Advocacy
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Legal Counseling
General Benefits Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Medicare Information/Counseling
Services include a daily pantry (fresh produce, bread, prepared foods, and surplus pantry items), monthly food appointments (supplemental food and toiletries), food support to other agencies/providers, and specialized services (food for seniors and students, as well as 24/7 food bins throughout the community for after-hour service). NOTE: PACS Does not offer rental assistance.

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Advocacy
Food Pantries
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Formula/Baby Food
Engages in traditional litigation cases in addition to other forms of advocacy, including community legal education, policy research and media outreach. Represents workers in deportation defense matters, including asylum, cancellation of removal proceedings, and visas for victims of trafficking and other serious crimes. Also assists workers seeking redress for employment issues including sexual harassment, wage theft, dangerous working conditions, unemployment benefits, and retaliatory discharge.

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Community Legal Clinics
Advocacy
Provides advocacy, navigation assistance, and accompaniment for victims of abuse as they navigate the criminal justice system. Includes criminal justice navigation, police interview accompaniment, court accompaniment, post-conviction support, and victim compensation assistance program claim filing.

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General Crime Victim Assistance
Victim's Rights Groups
Advocacy
Volunteers are trained to ensure that children, involved with the foster care and/or child welfare system, are affored basic rights and essential needs. Volunteers serve as an advocate, autonomous of the court, foster or child welfare systems, for the child and their best interests.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Advocacy
Provides assistance to persons in need of help in negotiating a specific aspect of the mental health system. This may include housing issues, securing entitlements, welfare benefits, patient rights, employments issues, or other community support systems, as it pertains to an individual with a mental health challenge. The advocate’s role is to provide support and to help ensure that the consumer’s voice is heard and a recovery approach is followed.
Provides a community organizing model that puts community at the front of criminal defense.
Provides advocacy and professional support to ensure that public education is a reality for Pennsylvania's most vulnerable children. Focuses on underserved students, including students in poverty, students of color, students with disabilities, English learners, LGBTQ youth, students experiencing homelessness, and students in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.

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Advocacy
Education Advocacy Groups
Provides advocacy services that help families and self-advocates understand and navigate the mental health/intellectual and developmental disability service systems. The Arc's education advocacy services help parents, guardians, and students develop a plan of action for obtaining a free and appropriate education and helping students make meaningful progress on their educational goals. Provides an information line for families to call and ask questions.

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Advocacy
School System Advocacy
Medical Information Services
Offers free legal and social services to Philadelphia's abused and neglected children.

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Lawyer Referral Services
Advocacy
Legal Counseling
Child Abuse Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Abuse Prevention
The Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence serve men and women over the age of 21 with Intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities.

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Independent Living Communities/Complexes
Advocacy
Provides advocacy services that help a community members navigate different systems such as educational, mental health, children and youth.
Provides advocacy services for persons with disabilities and their families.

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Advocacy
Centers for Independent Living
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Supports and facilitates research into effective treatments for Nephrotic Syndrome. Advocates for federal funding and provides support, connections, and education for patients and their families. Also recruits patient support and advocacy volunteers.

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Advocacy
Funding
Research
Volunteer Opportunities
Health Related Advocacy Groups