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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

Health Issues
Advocacy

United Way of the Bradford Area - NO PROGRAM1 NAME

Supports local health and human service agencies that provide various types of programs that meet the needs of the community. Does not provide direct services to clients, but instead funds organizations and programs and offers volunteer opportunities.

What's Here

Information and Referral Associations
Advocacy
Volunteer Opportunities

Disability Empowerment Center - Advocacy and Independent Skills Training

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

What's Here

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

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

    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

    Eligible Benefits Applicants
    Advocacy
    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

    Health Issues
    Advocacy

    Center for Independent Living of Central Pennsylvania - Advocacy

    Advocates and volunteers work on state and local disability issues.

    What's Here

    Disabilities Issues
    Advocacy
    Centers for Independent Living
    Disability Rights Groups

    Jewish Family Service - Case Management

    Provides case management, counseling and advocacy to individuals of the Jewish faith. Services include: Counseling: Offers professional counseling for families and individuals Food Bank: Food pantry, in conjunction with Helping Harvest, distributes groceries to those who meet federal guidelines. Transportation: Offers a taxi service in the community, which enables seniors and the disabled to get to doctors' appointments, socialize and remain independent. Outreach: Members of the Jewish community are visited in their homes, hospitals, and long-term care facilities by staff to assess needs. Information and referral: Provides information on other services, agencies and resources in the community.

    What's Here

    Low Income
    General Counseling Services
    Jewish Community
    Case/Care Management
    Advocacy

    Ambassadors for Hope - Ambassadors for Hope

    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.

    What's Here

    Children of Inmates/Ex-Offenders
    Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
    Advocacy

    American Diabetes Association - Advocacy and Education

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

    What's Here

    Diabetes
    Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
    Advocacy
    General Health Education Programs

    Family and Community Service of Delaware County - HIV/AIDS Medical Case Management

    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.

    What's Here

    Case/Care Management
    Advocacy
    Specialized Information and Referral
    AIDS/HIV

    CeaseFirePA - Common Agenda to End Gun Violence

    Advocates for state legislative policies at aimed at reducing gun violence in Pennsylvania. Provides information on gun violence issues. Offers volunteer opportunities.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Political Action/Lobbying Groups
    Gun Violence Issues
    Volunteer Opportunities

    Central Behavioral Health - Certified Peer Specialist

    Provides Certified Peer Specialist services such as mentoring, advocacy and mediation, engagement, wellness strategies, and mental health education.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Wellness Programs
    Mentoring Programs
    Mental Health Information/Education

    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

    Advocacy
    Hearing Loss
    Specialized Information and Referral

    Pennsylvania Tourette Syndrome Alliance - Advocacy Service

    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.

    What's Here

    General Health Education Programs
    Disease/Disability Information
    Medical Information Services
    Employment Related Advocacy Groups
    Physician Referrals
    Health Related Advocacy Groups
    Advocacy
    Specialized Information and Referral
    Tourette's Syndrome

    Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General - Military and Veterans Affairs

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

    What's Here

    Consumer Complaints
    Advocacy
    Consumer Education
    Fraud Prevention
    Veterans
    Veteran Membership Organizations

    American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania - ACLU 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.

    What's Here

    Legal Issues
    Health Care Discrimination Assistance
    Immigrant Rights Groups
    Education Discrimination Assistance
    Advocacy
    Housing Discrimination Assistance
    Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
    Employment Discrimination Assistance

    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

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

    Abilities in Motion - Independent Living Services

    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

    What's Here

    Independent Living Skills Instruction
    Centers for Independent Living
    Advocacy
    Specialized Information and Referral
    Disabilities Issues

    Juvenile Law Center - Youth Advocacy Program

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

    What's Here

    Adoption/Foster Care/Kinship Care Issues
    Advocacy

    Laurel House - Medical Advocacy (DART I)

    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.

    What's Here

    Domestic Violence Issues
    Advocacy
    General Crime Prevention Programs

    Safe Berks - Medical Advocacy

    On-site advocates at all local hospitals; On-site response to medical advocacy calls 24/7/365; access to Safe Berks services, info, advocacy, safety planning and shelter; specialized education to healthcare providers

    What's Here

    General Crime Victim Assistance
    Sexual Assault Issues
    Domestic Violence Issues
    Advocacy

    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

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

    Arc of Philadelphia - Advocacy and Supports Referrals

    Assists individuals with intellectual disabilities and/or developmental disabilities and their families with supports referrals. Advocates for services and provide public information.

    What's Here

    Advocacy
    Intellectual Disabilities
    Specialized Information and Referral

    Child and Family Focus - Family Based Mental Health Services

    Provides family therapy, case management and emergency crisis intervention family support services, including emergency on-call crisis intervention. Also provides family support and stabilization services, including assisting financially in meeting specific needs of the family as well as funding additional or creative methods of working with the family.

    What's Here

    Family Counseling
    Home Based Mental Health Services
    Mental Health Evaluation
    Family Resource Centers/Outreach
    Advocacy
    In Person Crisis Intervention
    General Crisis Intervention Hotlines