Provides legal services, advice and assistance to persons receiving care or alleged to be in need of care at inpatient and community based facilities for individuals with mental disabilities.

Offers tips for seniors and their loved ones to avoid fraud and abuse. Speakers are available to educate the public about issues like consumer frauds, senior scams, internet safety, civil and labor rights.Please report suspected neglect or abuse of nursing home residents to the NYS Department of Health Nursing Home Complaint hotline 888-201-4563 and to the Attorney General's Office at 800-771-7755. Suspected abuse can also be reported online through a form.

Consumer advocates available to talk with consumers having difficulties with mental health system or needing help connecting to services in community or who just like to talk with someone who may have had similar experiences.

Focuses on four key area: diminishing role of race in the criminal justice system. increasing fairness and African-American participation in all aspects of economic life. increasing equity in education and eliminating tolerance for schools that fail students. achieving full African-American civic engagement and participation in the democratic process.

Provides direction for service provision to persons with chronic mentally illness. Involved in identifying service gaps/barriers and in responding through program development, facilitation of inter-organizational working relationships, and support of advocacy efforts to improve quality of lives of persons with chronic mental illness.

Professional staff and trained volunteers monitor permanency plans for foster children and families involved in family court system. Cases assigned by Family Court Judges as needed.

* Does not provide direct food assistance or services for individuals. Not an emergency food pantry or soup kitchen.* Distributes donated and purchased food and other items to member charitable organizations serving the needy, children, seniors, and ill.* Provides Food Safety Training.* Advocates for hunger issues.* Offers Foodlink Career Fellowship - A year-long culinary training program to secure a middle-skills job.* Coordinates fundraising events.* Creates publications, newsletters, and brochures.Member of Feeding America. Member of the Emergency Services and Family Stabilization Network.

Provides a protection and advocacy system for individuals and their families with chronic diseases or developmental and other disabilities. Offers legal assistance of issues including: disability, Medicaid and other insurance, permanency planning, and housing.

Provides a dynamic group of student activists from Nassau and Suffolk counties that evaluates, directs and implements programs and services to create safer and more supportive schools for LGBT students and their allies.

Serves as a statewide voice for more than 700 boards of education. Provides current information and advice on matters affecting school boards. Cooperates with other educational and related organizations to promote excellence in education. Provides advocacy information, leadership development and custom services to public school boards.

Provides professional, school and public health services and education to prevent infant mortality and birth defects. Also offers information and referral, grant proposal program, volunteer/community service activities, as well as fundraising and special daily events.

Works to change public policy and advocate for those issues and positions that relate to local United Ways, community building, and fund raising activities.

Offers advocacy and public information to assure reproductive freedom of choice and access to reproductive health care services.

* Develops a comprehensive county plan for mental health, developmental disability, and alcohol/substance abuse services. * Allocates funding to local agencies based on community priorities, treatment outcomes, and program performance.* Ensures coordination of services across levels of care and among community providers.* Assists in the systematic change to provide person/family-centered, strength-based, culturally competent, recovery-oriented, and evidence-based services.

Advocates represent Association on Alzheimer's-related issues to federal, state, and local government and to health care and long-term care providers. The benefit is to increase federal research funding, growth in state-supported services, and improvement in quality of care for those in residential facilities.

Non religious Religion - Believe Everyone has Value.

Provides a protection and advocacy system for individuals and their families with chronic diseases or developmental and other disabilities. Offers legal assistance of issues including: disability, Medicaid and other insurance, permanency planning, and housing.

Promotes ethical humanistic beliefs and values to improve the human condition through programs, workshops, events and education. Call for more information.

Works to build awareness and the importance of quality early child care and education, and the funding issues related to child care, to parents, child care providers, business leaders and key stakeholders in the community.