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Volunteer opportunities to work with the Advocacy Program.

Provides personal advocacy to assist an individual to obtain services that are his/her legal right, such as sign language interpreters. Systemic advocacy activities include participation as a member of a coalition of many organizations working for a specific cause, working in partnership with Deaf and hard of hearing consumer groups, responding to new legislation, and other related activities.

Provides information, referral, and advocacy for individuals with autism. Offers inclusive community opportunities for community outings.

Works with social service, government, and law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking. The coalition aims to coordinate an appropriate response to the needs of victims and seeks to make a wide range of services available by creating a network of agencies that can properly assist them.

Provides education, advocacy, and support to autistic people, their parents, and professionals.

Provides education on human trafficking and offers life skills classes for trafficking survivors.

Provides monitoring, satisfaction-survey, and advocacy services for individuals and families receiving mental health, substance use, or intellectual disability supports. Through interviews, focus groups, and data collection, the service assesses access, service delivery, treatment quality, quality of life, recovery, and wellness outcomes. Feedback and findings are submitted to counties, state or insurance stakeholders, providers, individuals, and families with the goal of improving system performance and support services. Also offers advocacy support: assistance with understanding rights, file grievances or requests for change, and navigate support systems when needed.

Provides advocacy and professional support to ensure that public education is a reality for all. 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.

Trains physicians, nurses, medical students, and other medical professionals to recognize the signs of domestic abuse. Provides on-site support when available to victims at local hospitals. Develops and distributes resource materials which are used by hospitals and health care providers when they are dealing with victims of domestic violence.

Provides advocacy, information, and education for adults and children with diabetes.

Investigate and prosecute certain offenses against veterans. Connects veterans with existing services, educate them on consumer issues, and advocate on their behalf.

Provides prenatal and postpartum care to women and children - 1st trimester up to 24 months of child's age. Assists with insurance, obtaining a medical provider, transportation, parenting assistance, and general client advocacy. Focuses on education, outreach, case management, interconceptional care, maternal depression, and health and screening.

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.

Offers a Community Support Program with innovative trainings, wellness conferences, special events such as Christmas in July, the annual art show, anti-stigma campaigns, CSP celebrations, and the production of a wide variety of literature. Aging Advocacy - MHA provides advocacy services at the South Mountain Restoration Center to ensure the rights of individuals to receive the most appropriate services in the most appropriate setting are assured. Community Advocacy - MHA provides advocacy services when community members who need assistance with getting appropriate or desired services feel they have exercised all options available to them.

Works to defend civil liberties, including freedoms of speech, religion and association; the right to petition the government; separation of church and state; the right to privacy; reproductive freedom; due process of law; the rights of the accused; and the right to equal treatment under the law.

Educational advocates assist parents and children by working cooperatively with Berks County school districts in obtaining appropriate Educational services for children.

Offers free legal help for low-income and vulnerable residents. Services may include bankruptcy, debt relief, consumer law, child custody and dependency issues, disaster legal aid, elder law, expungements, pardons, and record sealing. May also cover government benefits issues concerning Unemployment Compensation, SSI, SSDI, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), SNAP (food stamps), Medical Assistance (Medicaid), and Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Housing issues such as landlord-tenant, eviction, habitability, public or subsidized housing, rent-to-own, homeownership, mortgage foreclosure, property tax sales, reverse mortgages, and tangled title; utility problems, and veterans benefits and discharge upgrades.

Offers confidential domestic abuse case management, legal services, referral management, and educational programming through a Jewish lens to all who seek our services.

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) are community volunteers who serve as the voice of abused and neglected children in the court system. The advocacy looks to ensure that the children will be safe, secure and given a better opportunity to thrive.

Provides options, information, and advocacy to victims of domestic abuse within the welfare system and educates welfare personnel about domestic abuse.

Offers supportive services, referrals, resources, and educational outreach encouraging positive life choices during behavioral health recovery.

Provides free resource coordination, training, and one-to-one advocacy support to individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families. The program is based on four main pillars: Collaboration, Education, Empowerment, and Self-Advocacy. Through these, they connect with and support individuals, families, and community partners in their navigation of the IDD systems in a way that meets their needs now and into the future. The three main programs are: * Resource Coordination * One-to-One Advocacy * Webinar Trainings

Advocates are available to work with survivors in order to achieve their goals. They help domestic and sexual violence survivors navigate many of the systems for assistance.

Voluntary health organization that provides education, support and advocacy for people with epilepsy and their families. Programs and services include: - Informational materials - Medical, legal and mental health referrals - Adult resource services - Workshops and conferences - Children and family services - Support groups - Community education - Lending book and video library - Personal and legislative advocacy - Teen and pre-teen camp - Special events - Annual spring education conference - Young Adult Retreat

Provides information and referral services.