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Provides peer support, exchange of information and resources, and recruitment of families for waiting children. Offers support and technical assistance to parent groups throughout Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania. Hosts adoptive family support group, Chat 'n' Chill.

Provides peer specialists going through similar trauma's for individuals during their mental health journey.

Provides Certified Peer Specialists who are in recovery from their own mental health, substance abuse and/or criminal justice struggles to assist other adults seeking wellness and/or recovery themselves.

Provides Certified Peer Specialists who are in recovery from their own mental health, substance abuse and/or criminal justice struggles to assist other adults seeking wellness and/or recovery themselves.

Provides peer specialists going through similar trauma's for individuals during their mental health journey.

Provides a peer support specialist warm line for persons needing to talk for noncrisis issues.

Provides an individualized, recovery-focused service that allows individuals the opportunity to learn to manage their own recovery and advocacy process from others living with mental illness who demonstrate ongoing success in their recovery.

Offers groups and discussions. Self-help groups bring people together who share common life experiences for support, education and mutual aid. Benefits of participating in a self-help group include:

• Learning new information and strategies for confronting problems
• Finding support from others
• The opportunity to help others
• Feeling empowered and more self-confident in coping with challenges

Provides peer specialists going through similar trauma's for individuals during their mental health journey.

Offers peer support groups for grieving children, adolescents, and their families. Also provides consultation, information and referral services, and education to community groups.

Offers one-to-one, confidential, short-term, peer, goal-oriented counseling to address many of the crucial issues facing members of the LGBTQ2+ community.

SAM is an organization working with the community to provide case management services for consumers and individuals enrolled in early interventions, intellectual disability and mental health.

Provides recovery support and coaching. Assists clients to increase their recovery capital and level of life functioning.

Provides goal planning and assistance, peer to peer counseling, wellness groups, personal wellness recovery plan (WRAP), psychiatric advanced directive, advocacy, community awareness and integration awareness, self-determination and self-discovery.

Offers peer counseling.

Offers psychoeducational classes/programs that are accepted by most area District Justices, School Districts and Youth Aid Panels as part of an alternative sentencing diversion program.

Certified Peer Specialists serve adults 18 years and older who have a serious mental illness and have a moderate to serious functional impairment that interferes with or limits performance in at least one of the following areas: educational, social, vocational or self-maintenance. Services are provided by individuals who have experienced mental illness first-hand. A Certified Peer Specialist is someone who is grounded in their recovery and has gone through specialized training and testing to earn their certification.

Provides a peer-supported treatment program that Helps individuals living with or experiencing a mental illness through the recovery process to achieve an increased quality of life. The program utilizes trained Certified Peer Specialists who have lived experience and are succeeding in their own recovery from mental illness. The program allows for a comfortable and open relationship based on the idea that both individuals have lived experience and utilizes recovery oriented and strength based approaches to help individuals achieve their goals and maintain wellness.

Provides an individualized, recovery-focused service that allows individuals the opportunity to learn to manage their own recovery and advocacy process from others living with mental illness who demonstrate ongoing success in their recovery.

Provides peer counseling.

The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North Central PA, offers:Resources/training related to language translation, housing, income benefits, mobility/transportation, education, communication, assistive technology, advocacy, budgeting, household management, mentoring, and socialization/recreation geared toward persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Sign Language Instruction. Assistance with obtaining an Interpreter/Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART). Instruction of the Pennsylvania Driver's Manual. Public awareness/sensitivity training regarding persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Information about Videophones/Video Relay Interpreting Services and resources on how to go about getting a videophone. Assistance with getting equipment via the TDDP such as a TTY, CapTel, amplified telephone, etc. A New Start program through Roads to Freedom, an Assistive Technology reuse/recycle program, may be able to provide donated equipment.

Provides case management, day programming, site based psych rehab (group rehab), emergent funds (depends on need), crisis intervention, delegate services, outpatient funding for counseling and psychiatry if an individual has no insurance, and a housing program. For MR or IDD consumers we offer emergent funds, supports coordination, day programming, group home placing/assistance, crisis intervention and delegate services.

• Provides early intervention for children from the age of 0 months to 2 years and 9 months of

age. This service is provided for any child that may be displaying a delay physically, verbally, speech development, etc.

Provides a telephone support line where the caller is able to talk to trained peers that can listen to concerns and offer support. All calls will remain confidential except in cases that require crisis intervention.

Provides Certified Peer Specialists who are in recovery from their own mental health, substance abuse and/or criminal justice struggles to assist other adults seeking wellness and/or recovery themselves.

Offers counseling services for people of all ages, ethnicities, gender identities, and sexual orientations. Counseling sessions are available over the phone or through videoconferencing.