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Provides job readiness, skills training, career development, adult basic education, and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. Also offers Allied health training that includes CNA training, Phlebotomy, and Medical Assistant.

Provides assistance navigating community resources and Workforce/employment services, including employment skills, career counseling, high school equivalency assistance and reentry assistance. Also provides a recovery support center with community based self help programming for individuals experiencing a substance abuse disorder. Recovery Cafe provides a safe, sober place to socialize.

Provides a comprehensive assisted living facility, offering 24-hour nursing services, dietary services, and social services.

Provides website for volunteers to register to help with snow removal. Sign-up form is divided by date and region of Erie County.

A group mentoring program for teens ages 13 and older who are already a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Designed to teach adult-life skills and help teens prepare for the decisions they will need to make after high school graduation. Meets once a month. It is run by teens.

Deploys trained volunteers to provide objective reviews of housing or housing-related services for quality, content, and quantity of information and services. Volunteers are compensated as testers and trained under the methodologies approved by the Department of Housing and Development.

Provides a comprehensive assisted living facility, offering 24-hour nursing services, dietary services, and social services.

Opportunities to volunteer in a variety of areas

Offers volunteer opportunities teaching an adult reading, writing, math, or English language skills in one-to-one or small group settings.

Well-trained volunteers who, when authorized by a judge, speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court. CASA volunteers serve as fact-finders for the judge and represent the child's interests in court by establishing a relationship of trust with the child and acting as a "watchdog" for the child during the life of the case. CASA associations provide up to 30 hours of training and ongoing support for volunteers.

Assessments completed for individuals applying for Agency services.

• Home Delivered Meals, Personal Care, Personal Emergency Response Systems, Adult Daycare and the Caregiver Support program.
• Care Management is provided by trained Aging Care Managers.
• Level of Care Assessments provided to individuals applying for waiver programs or facility placement.

Social support individually or in a group for adults dealing with mental health issues.

Provides one-to-one youth mentoring programs in which professionally screened and trained volunteers provide guidance, mentoring, and friendship to children. Programs help children become more confident, make healthy decisions, and achieve their fullest potential in life.

Operates thrift stores; proceeds help fund outreach ministries that provide services to vulnerable and at risk members of the community. Also provides volunteer opportunities to sort, clean, and distribute donations.

Volunteer opportunities for mental health consumers and other interested adults.

Distributes nutritious, chef-made meals from local independent restaurants to the public.

Provides opportunities for individuals to engage in volunteer services. Matches interested volunteers with appropriate volunteer positions.

Seeks volunteers to provide training and care for the horses and help the riders learn to care for their horses before and after they ride.

Solicits surplus food from local industry and effectively distributes these foods through a network of community organizations including food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters. Provides SNAP outreach services, facilitating client eligibility screenings, and COMPASS applications.

Provides long-term skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation services, including pain management, wound care, post-operative care, hospice services, IV therapy, tracheotomy care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and respiratory therapy.

Opportunities to volunteer and/or donate to the food pantry. Volunteers assist with packing and preparing food boxes for pick-up.

Recruits, screens, trains, and supervises volunteer advocates who are then appointed by the Juvenile Judge to advocate for the best interests of abused and/or neglected children. Offers services that may include: Advocating for abused and/or neglected children involved in dependency court proceedings; Independently investigating facts of the case for the court; Making recommendations to the court based on case facts and information gathered; Monitors court orders to ensure services are provided to and utilized by the child and family; Attending all meetings and court proceedings.

Offers a variety of opportunities that are available to persons willing to give their time. Volunteers are needed to deliver meals, make visits to individuals in the community and at facilities (Ombudsman volunteer), assist seniors with insurance questions (trained APPRISE volunteer), assist at senior activity centers, and be members of the agency's Advisory Council.

Provides a senior center with weekday congregate meals, fitness classes, walking club, guest speakers, health screens, craft classes, bingo, cards, pool, puzzles, birthday and holiday celebrations, and volunteer opportunities.

Provides air conditioned space during extreme heat emergencies