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Families Forward minimizes the impact on the whole family when a parent is incarcerated in Lancaster County Prison. Team members connect parents and caregivers with resources such as food, clothing, and guardianship, and also provide support and education to encourage healthy parent-child relationships. The team teaches Parenting Inside Out classes in Lancaster County Prison to strengthen family bonds and teach parents to handle some of the common challenges of parenting. They also facilitate hour-long visits between an incarcerated parent and their child(ren). This allows them to read together, play games, or just talk and connect without any barriers separating them.

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

Works to revitalize Erie's downtown by improving its image, business climate, physical environment, and design. Addresses downtown concerns of economic development, design, and promotions.

Provides community educational sessions as well as one-on-one counseling on Social Security and Medicare benefit planning, long-term living planning, check writing and budgeting, and fiduciary bookkeeping. Helps to develop individualized plans to meet the needs of each client.

Serves as an advocate for Veterans involved in the criminal justice system to help them avoid unnecessary criminalization of mental illness and extended incarceration by connecting Veterans to VA mental health and substance abuse services.

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.

Offers a wide spectrum of programs and services to meet the needs of the local disability community. Services include: *Disability Advocacy *Person Centered Counseling *Voter rights *Peer Support *E-sports *Technology Center

Provides services like citizenship classes, financial literacy, and social services in addition, to promoting civic engagement among the fast growing and diverse Latinx and immigrant populations.

Provides a variety of services unique to each individual's goals. Coordinates services deemed necessary to help foster youth make progress toward their goals and provides support as they work toward independence.

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.

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

Provides information, referral, and advocacy.

Provides services and resources to blind and visually impaired people. Services include non-medical information and referral, the ACB Braille Forum (available in braille, large print, digital cartridge, email, online, and podcast), legislative and governmental monitoring, scholarship assistance, and public education.

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.

Autonomous groups of individuals who share a common problem or concern, either directly or through their partners and families, who meet together on a voluntary basis to fulfill a need, overcome a disability or cope with a crisis. Members of mutual support groups share their experiences, strengths and hopes and rely on one another for emotional support, information and resources. Included are professionally-facilitated groups, faith-based and secular 12-step models with or without professional participation, groups that use a set of guidelines prepared by a national organization or headquarters, and groups that have no professional participation and/or no specifically-structured format. Also provides individuals with information, referrals and advocacy to community agencies. Provides accompaniment and legal advocacy during criminal and civil court hearings.

Works to reduce substance use and risk factors among youth.

Raises awareness in the community about the impact of violence on victims, the local community, and society, as well as builds skills, knowledge, and safer environments to prevent violence through educational programs, community assessments, assistance with policy development, and more.

Provides advocacy services for individuals with disabilities. Provides legal services in cases of disability employment discrimination, special education, and disability rights.

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.

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.

Provides disability advocacy, doctor referrals, and information to persons affected by Tourette Syndrome. Provides non-legal advocacy services for education or employment, and training for family and extended family.

Services provide information & referral, individual advocacy and systems advocacy regarding issues of adult community life. Those core issues in adult advocacy include functional supports and services, social supports, employment and housing, health care, benefits, and the quality of community life.

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

Creates an environment that fosters the growth and development of youth using assets within the community, schools, families and peer groups to prevent problem and risky behaviors.

Champions a life of inclusion, opportunity, and equity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through advocacy, education, and support.