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Volunteer opportunities for mental health consumers and other interested adults.

Operates Adopt-A-Highway, an effective way to reduce the overall cost of litter pick-up in Pennsylvania. Offers volunteer opportunity to clear a two-mile section of state highway two to four times a year. Works to reduce the overall cost of litter pick-up in Pennsylvania.

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 assisted living facility for those who require some assistance with daily living. Services include assistance with medication, housekeeping, transportation, dining and recreation. Also provides Assistance with personal hygiene, bathing, dressing, and other activities of daily living.

Provides an array of public library services.

Provides volunteer opportunities.

Promotes safety, justice, and equality through community awareness events, outreach programs, workshops, trainings, coalition work, and also counseling and hotlines.

CASA Volunteers are citizens who are trained to advocate for the best interest of children in the foster care system. They are assigned to a child or sibling group and get to know the child, as well as biological parents, resource parents, caseworkers, teachers, therapists, and doctors. They meet with the parties on their case regularly, write reports to the court, and attend hearings to testify to what is in the child's best interest. They investigate, facilitate, advocate, and monitor throughout the life of the case, until the child achieves a safe and permanent home.

Provides an after school community -based prevention education programs for youths.

Provides free, one-to-one, small group and large group instruction in reading, writing, math or English as a Second Language to adults who wish to improve basic skills. Tutoring sessions may be held at any public location such as a library, church, community center, or recreation hall. Offers GED Prep classes in Elizabethtown and Columbia. Scholarships are available to pay for each of the tests. Contact Jane Myers at 717-297-5523. English for Speakers of Other Languages new student orientation every Thursday at 11:00am and 3:00pm.

Operates Adopt-A-Highway, an effective way to reduce the overall cost of litter pick-up in Pennsylvania. Offers volunteer opportunity to clear a two-mile section of state highway two to four times a year. Works to reduce the overall cost of litter pick-up in Pennsylvania.

Volunteer network for people 55 and over that would like to use their skills to help others in their community. Opportunities include packaging/delivering Meals on Wheels, assist at a local food pantry, offer services at local senior center, etc.

Provides air conditioned space during extreme heat emergencies

Provides adequate, well-balanced, home delivered meals to homebound people who are unable to shop for and unable to prepare meals for themselves. The meals are prepared at the Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania under Kosher dietary guidelines. Meals may be meat or dairy and are based on a four-week menu cycle. Recipients may request 1 or 2 daily meals.

Screens individuals and families and provides application assistance for Dollar Energy Fund grants and hardship programs.

Provides temporary shelter and care for stray and unwanted animals, offers adoption and placement services, and investigates complaints of animal cruelty and neglect. Spay/neuter assistance also available.

Offers 1 to 72-hour short-term respite care for children ages birth through six years old. Serves as a 24-hour hotline for families in crisis. Prevents child abuse and neglect through respite, support, education, and counseling services. Seeks volunteers.

Foster Grandparents are classroom volunteers that share their time to enhance the quality of life of children and youth in preschools, Head Start centers and schools. Provides per hour stipend, meals while volunteering, mileage/transportation, clearances and training.

Offers men's, women's and children's clothing. Clothes for work, interviews, nursing jobs, construction, leisure, lingerie, sportswear, and maternity wear (when in stock).

Provides senior adults who are healthy enough to remain independent in their homes with support services, including professional in-home counseling, errand and transportation services, minor home repairs, and friendly visits or phone calls.

Provides an after-school program with learning experiences in a supervised environment. Students are provided a snack, participate in engaging activities, and are offered a bus ride home. Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions offered.

Connects area youth with positive, affirming mentors. Aims to strengthen the resilience and well-being of Centre County youth through programming to help them reach their full potential. This is a gender-inclusive program that is open to youth of all backgrounds and identities.

Provides eligible individuals with vouchers to purchase Pennsylvania-grown produce at participating farmers’ markets and farm stands. Vouchers are distributed in the summer and may be used through November.

Managed by United Way of Berks County, the Ready.Set.READ! (RSR) initiative is a collaboration of volunteers, educational organizations, corporations and community partners working together to help improve third grade reading proficiency in children in our community.

Partners with families in need of decent, affordable housing. Homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage.