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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Provides care management for persons living with disabilities, mental health diagnosis, and brain injury to support independent living, stability, and security. Assists with applying for public benefits; finding and staying in appropriate housing; coordinating medical care, social services, and transportation; managing finances; and exploring vocational, recreational, and social opportunities.

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.

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.

Provides advocacy, victim's rights groups, 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.

Provides school nurses, educators and volunteers with lesson plans and classroom activities that stress the importance of eating healthy and the value of physical fitness.

Gathers information regarding services received by consumers and family members to assess satisfaction with mental health and substance use disorder services. Advocates for improvements to available resources.

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 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.

Works with families to increase their ability to self manage and problem-solve.

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 Families Forward program

Provides advocacy, information and referrals.

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

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.

Volunteer opportunities to work with the Advocacy Program.

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.