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

Offers peer counseling.

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 men, women, and young adults with peer specialists who have experienced some of the same challenges they are facing. Focuses on living with mental health or substance abuse disorders, rather than being overcome by them. Mentors clients on self-care and resiliency skills, setting achievable goals, building on personal strengths, and making informed decisions.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

Assists individuals with mental health issues in developing their path to recovery. Individuals work with peer specialists who are or have been the recipients of mental health services. Peer specialists assist individuals in basic living skills, support and advocacy, development of social networks, and with linking individuals to other services.

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

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

Provides specialist that supports others through recovery.

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 peer counseling by consumers of behavioral health services who are trained and certified to offer support and assistance to others in recovery. Services are designed around personal choice and active involvement in recovery process..

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.

Offers linkages to and referrals for primary care physicians, Trans competent therapists, staffing agencies, GED/college entry programs, and internship-to-paid position opportunities. Also offers support groups; peer coaching; life skills training; resume building; and mental coping exercises including mindfulness, anxiety and grounding exercises, use of tools to ease anxiety, and self-care.

Provides a team that includes both Certified Recovery Specialists (CRS) and Certified Family Recovery Specialists (CFRS). These professionals are in active recovery and utilize their shared experience to support the development and maintenance of the recovery programs for individuals. Through advocacy, community linkage, peer-to-peer coaching, and empowerment, a CRS/CFRS can help strengthen a recovery program at any stage. CRS services are mobile and flexible to meet the individualized need of each participant.

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.

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

An ARCIL peer helper is a person with a disability who is living independently and is able to share their experiences and offer their support to others. They work one on one with individuals, helping them make adjustments to live with their disability, learn problem solving skills, explore options and use community services more effectively.

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

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.