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Women's Resource Center - Advocacy

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.

What's Here

Domestic Violence Issues
General Crime Victim Assistance
Advocacy

Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate - Utility Consumer Advocacy

Offers assistance with questions regarding electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, and wastewater services.

What's Here

Government Consumer Protection Agencies
Consumer Action Groups
Advocacy

Youth Advocate Programs - Youth Services

Provides youth and their families with intensive support in their homes, school and community through our wraparound-advocacy model. Staff meet with youth and families multiple times a week at times most needed by the family, with an emphasis on safety and support. Individualized service plans balance involuntary service demands with activities driven by the family's prioritized wants and needs.

What's Here

Job Finding Assistance
Gang Programs
Advocacy
Wraparound Facilitation/Community Support
Out of Home Respite Care
Youth
In Home Respite Care
Supported Employment

Justice and Mercy - Education and Advocacy

Provides information for the public at large, advocates reform within the criminal justice system, provides care and aftercare for both offenders and their victims, mentors training for ex-offenders, and prison tours.

What's Here

Inmates
Ex-Offenders
Advocacy
Mentoring Programs
Criminal Justice/Legal System Reform Groups

Disabled American Veterans - Veteran Services

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.
  • What's Here

    Veterans
    Social Services for Military Personnel
    Career Development
    Military Transition Assistance Programs
    Veteran Membership Organizations
    Advocacy
    Veteran Benefits Assistance
    Adults With Disabilities/Health Conditions
    Active Military
    Veteran Employment Programs
    Outreach Programs

    Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

    Provides information, referral, and advocacy.

    What's Here

    Hearing Loss
    Advocacy
    Specialized Information and Referral

    Mental Health Association in Beaver County - Community Wellness/Recovery Advocacy Program

    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.

    What's Here

    Personal Health Care Advocate Services
    Advocacy

    Saint Rocco Church - Saint Rocco Center

    Offers form assistance, citizenship education, food pantries, Hispanic/Latinx advocacy, translation services, and Thanksgiving baskets for eligible individuals and families.

    What's Here

    Food Pantries
    Certificates/Forms Assistance
    Language Translation
    Citizenship Education
    Comprehensive Information and Referral
    Specialized Information and Referral
    Advocacy
    Thanksgiving Baskets

    YEAH Philly - Teen Hangouts

    Offers culturally relevant workshops, life skills education, support groups, and more focused on areas such as managing stress, entrepreneurship, healing from trauma, conflict resolution, career readiness, healthy relationships, and current events.

    What's Here

    Relationship Workshops
    Conflict Resolution Training
    Prejob Guidance
    Stress Management
    General Benefits and Services Assistance
    Life Skills Education
    Advocacy
    Youth/Student Support Groups

    Covenant House Pennsylvania - The Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition

    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.

    What's Here

    Human Trafficking Counseling
    Advocacy
    Human Trafficking Issues
    General Crime Prevention Programs
    Human Trafficking Prevention

    AARP Pennsylvania Office - Aging Services

    Serves as an advocacy agency.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Older Adults

    Greater Reading Mental Health Alliance - Adult Advocacy

    Advocate with and on behalf of adults by asserting and protecting their rights, obtaining appropriate services and benefits and resolving problems, complaints and grievances.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Mental Illness/Emotional Disabilities

    LGBT Center of Greater Reading - Referral/Resource Center

    Provides support groups, clothing and toiletry closet, reference and referral advocacy, professional development training for those in the LGBTQ+ community and allies.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    LGBTQ2+ Community Centers
    LGBTQ2+ Issues
    LGBTQ2+ Support Groups

    Voice and Vision - Monitoring and Advocacy

    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.

    What's Here

    Advocacy

    Deaf-Hearing Communication Centre - Advocacy

    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.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Hearing Loss

    Bell Socialization Services - Next Door Program

    Provides basic case management services, and rental assistance to adults and families in York County who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk for eviction (NOTE: Referrals to rental assistance are limited as funds are limited). Offers community resource assistance and other services to help prevent homelessness.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Life Skills Education
    Homelessness Prevention Programs
    Prejob Guidance
    Rent Payment Assistance
    Case/Care Management
    Homelessness Issues
    At Risk for Homelessness

    Tenant Union Representative Network - Childhood Lead Prevention Program

    Provides advocacy for tenants who are having difficulties getting the hazardous lead removed from their homes and educates tenants on how to get help and care for their lead poisoned children. Also provides lead inspections.

    What's Here

    Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
    Lead Testing
    Advocacy

    Wounded Warrior Project - Veteran Services

    Wounded Warrior Project is a charitable organization that assists physically or mentally injured veterans through advocacy, events, resources and programs.

    What's Here

    Veterans
    Advocacy
    Veteran Reintegration Counseling

    Wyoming County Special Needs Association - Advocacy

    Provides advocacy on behalf of individuals and their families to ensure that they receive the benefits and services for which they are eligible and that organizations within the established service delivery system meet the collective needs of the client. Provides advocacy in schools and in the community. Service provided on case by case basis.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Intellectual Disabilities
    Autism Spectrum Disorder
    Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities

    YWCA Hanover - Safe Home

    Provides a 24-hour confidential, domestic violence support hotline. Makes referrals for temporary or emergency safe shelter. Offers legal advocacy, including assistance with filing a Protection From Abuse Order. Coordinates with other social service agencies that provide assistance with health, finances, housing, drug/alcohol treatment, support groups, children's services, employment/training, food, furniture, clothing, and more. Provides referral and support services, child therapy, and the W.E.A.V.E. (Women's Empowerment Against Violent Environments) adult support group, which includes free childcare during group sessions. Delivers community education for all groups, including educational speakers and age-appropriate outreach materials. Provides accompaniment and/or transportation to appointments/hearings, including civil and criminal hearings. Also offers options for counseling and crisis response, with free childcare provided when necessary. Offers volunteer opportunities.

    What's Here

    Domestic Violence Issues
    Domestic Violence Support Groups
    General Crime Victim Assistance
    Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
    Volunteer Opportunities
    Counseling for Children Affected by Domestic Violence
    General Abuse Prevention
    Advocacy
    Domestic Violence Hotlines
    Domestic Violence Protective/Restraining Orders

    Compass Mark, INC. - Family Services Advocate

    Identifies, supports and advocates for the unique needs and rights of children with incarcerated parents, moving past trauma to create futures of promise. Advocate will meet with the children and the caregiver to determine the child's needs and make the necessary referrals to community supports. The children and their caregivers will be supported in maintaining a connection with the incarcerated parent whenever possible. Also meets with the incarcerated parent, and offers Parenting Inside Out classes at Lancaster County Prison.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Children of Inmates/Ex-Offenders

    Disability Empowerment Center - Advocacy and Independent Skills Training

    Provides advocacy for individuals with disabilities, independent skills training, and information and referral.

    What's Here

    Certificates/Forms Assistance
    Disabilities Issues
    Specialized Information and Referral
    Independent Living Skills Instruction
    Mentoring Programs
    Centers for Independent Living
    Advocacy

    Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County - Welfare Advocacy

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

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Eligible Benefits Applicants
    Welfare Rights Assistance

    Unity Recovery - PA Recovery Friendly Workplace

    Helps employers review and update their policies to ensure they support employees who are in, or are seeking recovery. This includes policies for hiring practices, employee assistance programs, anti-discrimination and diversity policies, and community outreach strategies.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Health Issues

    Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania - Legal Aid Services

    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.

    What's Here

    Labor and Employment Law
    Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
    Advocacy
    Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
    General Benefits and Services Assistance
    TANF Recipients
    Eviction Prevention Assistance
    Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
    Welfare Rights Assistance
    Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
    Elder Law
    Bankruptcy Assistance
    Court Filing Offices
    Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
    Legal Information Services
    Legal Representation
    Predatory Lending Assistance
    General Legal Aid
    Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance