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Offers consultations, professional counseling referrals, peer counsel, relationship decision making, positive reinforcement, and supportive care.

Offers peer counseling.

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.

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

NAMI's Peer-to-Peer program is a free 8-week educational course for adults with a mental illness.

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

Provides an opportunity for individuals who have achieved significant progress to assist others in their recovery journeys with appropriate social networking, education and employment support, and to supplement existing treatment with providing ways to navigate the system to success.

Provides peer counseling. Certified Peer Specialists are individuals in recovery who have experienced mental health difficulties and serve as role models for others and to demonstrate that recovery is possible. This service focuses on cultivating a supportive and resourceful relationship with individuals who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

Offers recovery housing and peer to peer recovery services like Medication Assisted Recovery, Recovery Specialist Services, Life Skills classes, Recovery 101 groups, Recovery Planning Warm Hand off for Overdose Survivors, and Vocational Assistance. Offers social events like dances, workshops, and breakfasts.

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.

Assists clients to access recovery through monitoring, referral, counseling, support groups, and mentoring.

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

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

Provides classes, individual practitioner meetings, and community exploration related to meet a client's recovery goal (a commitment of 5 hours per week). Class sizes are limited to allow for focused work among participants.

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.

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 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 specialist that supports others through recovery.

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 a peer specialist for individuals experiencing mental illness.

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

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 pregnancy tests, and education on pregnancy, adoption, parenting, child development education. Offers a 24-hour hotline, peer counseling, post-abortion counseling, and support groups.

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

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.