Provides advocacy for individuals with disabilities, independent skills training, information and referral, and service coordination for individuals on waivers.

Identifies needs and advocates solutions for the children of incarcerated parents. - Educating and mobilizing the community - Empowering affected families - Influencing public policy - Providing financial assistance to families through the Compass Mark Family Services Advocate.

Provides a network volunteers to represent the best interests of foster children in their respective communities. Provides an advocate to help amplify their voice and make sure they are safe, secure, and given the opportunity to thrive.

Advocates on behalf of children who are involved in the child welfare system.

Provides 24-hour hotline support, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, accompaniment, trauma-informed empowerment/options counseling, support groups, Information and Referral, community prevention, and awareness education.

Offers individual and group counseling and advocacy for victims and significant others of sexual and domestic violence.

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.

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.

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.

Volunteer opportunities to work with the Advocacy Program.

Provides assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other government agencies.

Provides outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally and to disabled veterans and their families, specifically.

Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.

Supports Montgomery County families whose children and adolescents have behavioral health concerns navigate the public child serving systems—behavioral health, juvenile justice, child welfare, and education—as well as connect with each other and community resources.

Provides education about blindness, referral services, scholarship information, publications, and any aids, appliances, or adaptive equipment needed. Also provides advocacy services, counseling, guidance, and support for the blind and their families.

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.

Works to reduce substance use and risk factors among youth.

Offers culturally relevant workshops focused on areas such as managing stress, entrepreneurship, healing from trauma, conflict resolution, career readiness, healthy relationships, and current events. Organizes teens and young adults to address complex, systemic issues that impact our communities. Through advocacy and direct action, teens focus on solutions related to police brutality, restorative justice, voter suppression, internet access, healthcare, and Black mental health.

Provides human services to low income individuals and families. Programs include: - Information and referral/client advocacy, case management, senior center sources, and senior outreach - Interpreter services for clients - Soup kitchen - Immigration - Legal orientation - Employment services - Workforce readiness - GED preparation - ESL (English as a Second Language) - Mental Health services - Substance Abuse services - HIV/AIDS testing and counseling - STD testing and counseling

Provides assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other government agencies.

Provides outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally and to disabled veterans and their families, specifically.

Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.

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.

Provide one-on-one counseling services and group counseling services to victims of Domestic Violence. All services are provided in-person and virtually.

Provides care management services including involvement for doctor’s visits, medical advocacy, friendly visiting, travel companionship, interaction with medical providers, regular check-ins by phone, bi-yearly in-person visits for updates, and around the clock availability in the event of a crisis.

The goal of Medical Case Management (MCM) is to empower persons who are living with HIV to maintain optimal physical and emotional health through ongoing assessment of needs, linkage to medical care, retention in medical care, treatment adherence, service planning and monitoring, coordination of services and advocacy.Our Medical Case Managers meet with their clients at least once a month to update goals and to determine progress. Case managers meet with clients in the office, in their homes, or any community setting that is convenient. The following services are available for our MCM consumers: 340B Pharmaceutical Program, Transportation Assistance, Food Vouchers, Client Financial Fund, Support Group, and Peer Mentorship.

Provides advocacy and/or financial assistance. Situations vary and assistance is based on a case by case need and availability of funds. Co-pay and/or repayment is often requested.

Advocacy for the rights of all victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking to be free from harm in their homes, at their work, and on the streets. This includes both legal and economic advocacy.

Provides assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other government agencies.

Provides outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally and to disabled veterans and their families, specifically.

Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.