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Provides pre-packed food boxes. Offers volunteer opportunities.

Volunteers answer the helpline to gather information for Staff to make appropriate referrals for families requesting assistance.

Offers the following volunteer opportunities: A) Meal Delivery - hot or frozen home delivered meals B) Medicare counseling C) Tax Assistance D) Chore Service E) Senior Centers

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.

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.

The Southeastern Veterans Center is currently recruiting volunteers to serve the needs of the veterans in the center. Volunteers show our residents that someone still cares about them and they are regarded as real friends who prove that the residents are not alone. Here are some of the ways you can help:

• Assisting with Center activities
• Assisting on field trips
• Visiting with residents
• Escorting wheelchair-bound residents
• Distributing mail
• Assisting residents at mealtime
• Providing musical entertainment

Provides a training course that offers certification in skills that include accident prevention, feeding, diapering and dressing, supervision, and handling emergencies.

Maintains a collection of fiction and nonfiction reading materials that can be checked out by community residents who have library cards. Provides access to large print materials, tape/CD collections, the interlibrary loan system, references & information. Offers programming for youth, including a story hour and literacy program. Similar programming is also offered for adults. Computers, printers, and other electronic equipment are available. Provides professional development opportunities for nonprofit staff. Provides volunteer opportunities for those who are interested in being library assistants. This site also provides opportunities for individuals convicted of an offense who have been ordered to do community service in lieu of or in addition to incarceration or fines.

Supplies clothes to needy families. Also accepts volunteers for Sorting and Hanging and help with clothing distribution on Tuesday and Wednesday during certain times.

Offers APPRISE Medicare Counseling and Ombudsman and other volunteer opportunities.

Provides information and support concerning mental and emotional illnesses, including guidance to mental health services, education, family and individual advocacy as well as referrals to local psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and therapists. Offers advocacy and PEER support for individuals with a mental illness and their families. Also offers support for families of children with Individual Education Plans in schools. Conducts educational presentations for schools, clubs, employers, businesses and community groups on topics related to mental health. Makes referrals for anger management and community support groups.

Depends on the support of the community to deliver our programs and services to women who are making an effort to change their lives and become self-sufficient and economically independent. Always seeking volunteers in various capacities.

Provides a 100% volunteer non-profit organization with a two-fold mission of offering comfort to children in need through gifts of new, handmade blankets and of giving 'blanketeer' volunteers a rewarding way to use their skills to help children.

Adopt-a-Family program matches donor groups with particularly needy families. Program focuses on working poor and special cases.

Provides volunteer opportunities for members of the community to develop gardening skills and teach children about assisting those in need. Produce is given to the CCDC Food Pantry for local families in need.

Recruits volunteers age 55 and older to help with a variety of needs in the county serving through schools, day care centers, hospitals, and other nonprofit and public organizations to help meet critical community needs.

Provides Erie volunteers with opportunities to serve their community.

Thrift store that offers a broad selection of new and used furniture, appliances, cabinets and building supplies. The warehouse and showroom offer bargain prices to the public. Everything sold will help fund new or renovated homes for qualified families. Accepts donations of home and building materials in good, usable condition.

Offers a variety of ongoing, one-day, and event volunteer opportunities.

Provides air conditioned space during extreme heat emergencies

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.

Provides free, one-to-one and small 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.

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.

Connects volunteers with individuals in need of assistance with shoveling their sidewalk throughout the winter. Snow Angels aims to help minimize the hardships of snow removal by pairing volunteers with elderly or disabled residents in their neighborhood who they will assist with snow removal after each snow storm for the winter season.

Provides a wide range of services designed to work with clients to thrive in the home environment best suited to their needs. Assessment of need is done through our office and we work with volunteers and subcontractors to deliver appropriate service. Some of the services are: A) Home Delivered Meals: A meal is provided to functionally disabled, home-bound, or convalescent people age 60+ B) Personal Care Service: Provides personal grooming help - bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting and transferring C) Respite Care: Program designed to provide relief to the primary caregiver. Eligibility and hours will be determined in the assessment process D) Chore Service: Minor home repair may be possible when safety and necessary upkeep is required E) Protective Services: Reports of abuse can be made by calling 717-334-9296 or 800-548-3240 24 hours a day