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Education Law Center - Access to Quality Public Education
Provides advocacy and professional support to ensure that public education is a reality for all. Focuses on underserved students, including students in poverty, students of color, students with disabilities, English learners, LGBTQ youth, students experiencing homelessness, and students in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.
Provides advocacy and professional support to ensure that public education is a reality for all. Focuses on underserved students, including students in poverty, students of color, students with disabilities, English learners, LGBTQ youth, students experiencing homelessness, and students in the foster care and juvenile justice systems.
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Advocacy
Education Advocacy Groups
Human Services, Inc. - Advocacy
Provides information and referral services.
Provides information and referral services.
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Advocacy
Mercy Center for Women - Shelter, Support and Advocacy
Offers women to pair with an advocate who counsels and directs them in developing and implementing a personal goal plan. Some of these goals include greater self-determination, establishing a source of income, and obtaining permanent housing. The advocates provide supportive listening and identify problems or issues and offer possible solutions. Also provides accurate information, referral and follow-up as necessary.
Offers women to pair with an advocate who counsels and directs them in developing and implementing a personal goal plan. Some of these goals include greater self-determination, establishing a source of income, and obtaining permanent housing. The advocates provide supportive listening and identify problems or issues and offer possible solutions. Also provides accurate information, referral and follow-up as necessary.
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Women
Advocacy
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Specialized Information and Referral
Public Interest Law Center - Disability Rights
Provides advocacy services for individuals with disabilities. Provides legal services in cases of disability employment discrimination, special education, and disability rights.
Provides advocacy services for individuals with disabilities. Provides legal services in cases of disability employment discrimination, special education, and disability rights.
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Disability Rights Groups
Education Discrimination Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
School System Advocacy
Employment Discrimination Assistance
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Advocacy
Community Interactions - Self-Advocacy
Provides a monthly Quality Enhancement meeting that provides opportunities to develop good leadership skills and to explore self-directed services. It also give the consumers the opportunity to participate in the policy and decision-making process, while offering training to direct support staff. This group welcomes people from the general community at a small charge if the individual is not supported through a Community Interactions' residential or day service.
Provides a monthly Quality Enhancement meeting that provides opportunities to develop good leadership skills and to explore self-directed services. It also give the consumers the opportunity to participate in the policy and decision-making process, while offering training to direct support staff. This group welcomes people from the general community at a small charge if the individual is not supported through a Community Interactions' residential or day service.
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Group Counseling
Advocacy
Professional Skills Development Support
PA Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Programs for Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Provides advocacy, information and referral for Pennsylvanians who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or deaf blind, and their families and caregivers.
Provides advocacy, information and referral for Pennsylvanians who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or deaf blind, and their families and caregivers.
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Advocacy
Specialized Information and Referral
Hearing Loss
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.
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.
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In Home Respite Care
Wraparound Facilitation/Community Support
Advocacy
Job Finding Assistance
Gang Programs
Youth
Out of Home Respite Care
Supported Employment
Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project - Civil Legal Assistance
Assists individuals who are incarcerated or detained in prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, or other institutional settings by providing information, legal advice, advocacy, and representation of civil rights matter issues related to their conditions of confinement.
Provides assistance in:
A) Medical care and mental healthcare
B) Freedom from retaliation and freedom from assault and sexual abuse
C) Personal safety and freedom from assault and sexual abuse
D) Access to the courts
E) Religious accommodations and disability accommodations
F) Clean, safe, and humane living conditions
Assists individuals who are incarcerated or detained in prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, or other institutional settings by providing information, legal advice, advocacy, and representation of civil rights matter issues related to their conditions of confinement.
Provides assistance in:
A) Medical care and mental healthcare
B) Freedom from retaliation and freedom from assault and sexual abuse
C) Personal safety and freedom from assault and sexual abuse
D) Access to the courts
E) Religious accommodations and disability accommodations
F) Clean, safe, and humane living conditions
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Ex-Offenders
Criminal Justice/Legal System Reform Groups
Inmates
Low Income
Advocacy
General Legal Aid
Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration - Supports and Services
Offers advocacy, information, support and advocacy to people affected by frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and their caregivers. Provides a helpline. Organizes Zoom and phone support groups for particular types of FTD and for the main challenges for caregivers (behavior, language, grief, and other young children). Offers Comstock Grants to full-time family FTD caregivers and persons living with FTD.
Offers advocacy, information, support and advocacy to people affected by frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and their caregivers. Provides a helpline. Organizes Zoom and phone support groups for particular types of FTD and for the main challenges for caregivers (behavior, language, grief, and other young children). Offers Comstock Grants to full-time family FTD caregivers and persons living with FTD.
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Specialized Information and Referral
Brain Disorders
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Respite Care Subsidies
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Family Caregiver Subsidies
Advocacy
Arc of Chester County - Advocacy
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.
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.
What's Here
Advocacy
Developmental Issues
Medical Information Services
School System Advocacy
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
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.
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.
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Social Services for Military Personnel
Veterans
Active Military
Adults With Disabilities/Health Conditions
Military Transition Assistance Programs
Advocacy
Veteran Employment Programs
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Outreach Programs
Veteran Membership Organizations
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.
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.
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Welfare Rights Assistance
Elder Law
Predatory Lending Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Legal Information Services
Legal Representation
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Bankruptcy Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
TANF Recipients
Advocacy
Court Filing Offices
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Labor and Employment Law
East Suburban Citizen Advocacy - Disability Advocacy
Helps individuals with developmental disabilities access a wide array of services, including waiver programs, transition age services, getting an Individual Education Plan (IEP), and representative payee programs.
Helps individuals with developmental disabilities access a wide array of services, including waiver programs, transition age services, getting an Individual Education Plan (IEP), and representative payee programs.
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School System Advocacy
Advocacy
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.
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.
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Health Issues
Advocacy
Deafnet Association - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
Promotes the concerns that affect the deaf and hard of hearing community. Provides sign language classes, interpreting, training on the use of TTY, and advocacy.
Promotes the concerns that affect the deaf and hard of hearing community. Provides sign language classes, interpreting, training on the use of TTY, and advocacy.
What's Here
Sign Language Interpretation
Advocacy
Health Related Advocacy Groups
The Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence - Disability Support Services
The Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence serve men and women over the age of 21 with Intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities.
The Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence serve men and women over the age of 21 with Intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities.
What's Here
Advocacy
Independent Living Communities/Complexes
Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veteran Affairs - Returning Veteran Checklist
Welcome Home Checklist
Please Note: If you are a severely disabled Veteran and need any special accommodations, please identify that to your service officer or career counselor when making appointments.
Receive your DD 214
Things to do within one year from Separation
Have your DD 214 recorded in the County Recorder's Office for FREE
- Safeguard all your records. You will need them again.
- Take a copy of all your records with you for your appointment: Service Medical Records; Personnel File; Dental Record,
- Have your County Director of Veterans Affairs or Accredited Veterans Service Officer review your records and advise you on the benefits you qualify for,
- File for disabilities through an Accredited Veterans Service Officer.
Welcome Home Checklist
Please Note: If you are a severely disabled Veteran and need any special accommodations, please identify that to your service officer or career counselor when making appointments.
Receive your DD 214
Things to do within one year from Separation
Have your DD 214 recorded in the County Recorder's Office for FREE
- Safeguard all your records. You will need them again.
- Take a copy of all your records with you for your appointment: Service Medical Records; Personnel File; Dental Record,
- Have your County Director of Veterans Affairs or Accredited Veterans Service Officer review your records and advise you on the benefits you qualify for,
- File for disabilities through an Accredited Veterans Service Officer.
What's Here
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Military Transition Assistance Programs
Veteran Membership Organizations
Advocacy
Veterans With Disabilities
Social Services for Military Personnel
Veteran Employment Programs
NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference - Advocacy
Operates as a civil rights organization, participates in voter registration, criminal justice issues, housing, veterans and armed services, health, religious, legal redress, education, candidate forums, women issues, ACT, and etc.
Operates as a civil rights organization, participates in voter registration, criminal justice issues, housing, veterans and armed services, health, religious, legal redress, education, candidate forums, women issues, ACT, and etc.
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Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Housing Discrimination Assistance
Veterans
Voter Registration Offices
Election Information
Women
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Advocacy
General Health Education Programs
Religion/Spirituality Related Support Groups
Hate Crimes Prevention
Employment Discrimination Assistance
AARP Pennsylvania Office - Aging Services
Serves as an advocacy agency.
Serves as an advocacy agency.
What's Here
Advocacy
Older Adults
York County Children's Advocacy Center - Advocacy Center
Provides forensic child interviews, medical exams, and services to reduce the trauma children experience during the investigation of abuse allegations.
Provides forensic child interviews, medical exams, and services to reduce the trauma children experience during the investigation of abuse allegations.
What's Here
Child Abuse Issues
Crime Witness Support
General Crime Victim Assistance
Advocacy
Children's Rights Groups
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.
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
Welfare Rights Assistance
Elder Law
Predatory Lending Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Legal Information Services
Legal Representation
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Bankruptcy Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
TANF Recipients
Advocacy
Court Filing Offices
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Labor and Employment Law
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.
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
Active Military
Advocacy
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Career Development
Veteran Membership Organizations
Outreach Programs
Social Services for Military Personnel
Adults With Disabilities/Health Conditions
Veteran Employment Programs
Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services - Intellectual Disability Services (IDS)
Administers, monitors, and coordinates Early Intervention services and services for people with an intellectual disability. Coordinates service providers that offer a broad range of supports and services including supports coordination, early intervention services, in-home supports and respite services, employment and adult day services, and community living and Lifesharing services.
Administers, monitors, and coordinates Early Intervention services and services for people with an intellectual disability. Coordinates service providers that offer a broad range of supports and services including supports coordination, early intervention services, in-home supports and respite services, employment and adult day services, and community living and Lifesharing services.
What's Here
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Advocacy
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.
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
Counseling for Children Affected by Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Issues
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
General Abuse Prevention
Volunteer Opportunities
General Crime Victim Assistance
Domestic Violence Protective/Restraining Orders
Advocacy
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Tri-State Advocacy Project - Advocacy Services
Provides advocacy and benefits information to help individuals and families navigate the health care system.
Provides advocacy and benefits information to help individuals and families navigate the health care system.
What's Here
Advocacy
General Benefits and Services Assistance
