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Provides congregate meals, socialization, and enrichment/recreational activities including: arts and crafts, computers, bingo, cards, pool, puzzles, games, and exercise classes.

Pairs expectant or new parents with experienced parent mentors who use text messaging to provide support, information, referrals, and suggestions for activities that promote infant mental health.

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.

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.

Provides hot meals for takeout on a first come, first served basis.

Offers a food bank to those experiencing food insecurity in the area.

Works to preserve all aspects of the historical, educational, and cultural heritage. Offers events, speakers, classes, and many opportunities to participate or volunteer.

Volunteers are trained to ensure that children, involved with the foster care and/or child welfare system, are affored basic rights and essential needs. Volunteers serve as an advocate, autonomous of the court, foster or child welfare systems, for the child and their best interests.

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

Weatherization services including, but not limited to: roof replacement, furnaces repair/replacement, windows, doors, insulation and ductwork. Work is completed through a contractor and financed through a 1% interest loan that covers the cost of repairs.

Provides an array of public library services. Additional services at this location:

• Biz Info to Grow (BIG): a program that provides free guidance, direction and an electronic database to assist start-up and existing small businesses
• Spanish Language Newspaper
• Fax and copy services
• Meeting room rentals for 100
• Passport photo services

Opportunities to volunteer in a variety of areas

Provides opportunities to get involved and volunteer in the community, in support of LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Provides a client choice food pantry to food-insecure individuals, families and their pets. Volunteer opportunities available. Accepts donation, see website.

Provides justice-involved people with education and prevention programming, mentorship, case management and referrals for treatment services, and advocacy resulting in enhanced relational skills and reintegration within the community. Volunteers assist with fundraising events and/or grant writing.

Veterans Treatment Court is designated as a Problem-Solving Court- designated to serve only U.S. military veterans, National Guardsmen, and Reservists. Targeted population served is primarily combat veterans, who may or may not suffer with post-traumatic stress and/or TBI (traumatic-brain injury) and/or addiction problems. Primary goals: helping participating veterans access therapeutic care, VA benefits and services, comply with legal requirements of VTC, and lead productive, law-abiding lives. Team approach to assisting participants in a person-centered manner. Volunteer mentors vital component to VTC programming. Mentors are trained volunteer U.S. service veterans who provide support, guidance, insight and hope to fellow veterans who have become involved with the criminal justice system. Mentors lend an ear, act as a sounding board, and provide guidance from a perspective only a veteran can do. Mentors link their mentees to a plethora of community and veteran resources, as needed. Mento

Offers volunteer opportunities and training to become a hotline counselor

Assists older adults in maintaining their independence by providing companionship, assistance, transportation, errands, and other quality of life services through a network of volunteers.

Volunteers who are 55+ are recruited and trained to lead support groups in sites throughout the community such as senior community centers and senior apartment buildings.

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.

Providing the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. This program offers assistance to community members with filing their local, state, and federal tax returns, and property/rent rebate forms.

Provides gardening education, seedlings, and construction support to volunteer-run gardens. Harvests are gathered and distributed to local food cupboards where, along with non-perishable food items, residents who are hungry or food insecure can get the food they need.

Provides general funding to non-profit community agencies, volunteer opportunities, and information and referral services.

Assists formerly incarcerated citizens in finding a home, church, job, housing, mentoring, and spiritual advising. Also sends letters to those incarcerated in county, state, and federal correctional institutions. Volunteer opportunities available.

Connects youth to positive outreach sites and provides at risk prevention through volunteer work at pre-approved not for profit agencies within Venango County. Participants in the program earn "time dollars" for each hour they volunteer up to 80 hours in a calendar year. The "time dollars" are credited to the volunteer's account at the rate of $4 an hour. The value of the hours volunteered can be redeemed for gift cards which can be used at participating area businesses. The value of the "time dollars" can also be used towards education expenses, field trips, YMCA or YWCA memberships, extra curricular activities and club participation fees. The program is housed at the Oil City YMCA. The Y, along with the funding contributors, and other organizations collaborate to deliver the Community Youth Volunteer Program.