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Westchester’s Kinship Unit helps grandparents, relatives, or non-biological parents raising children navigate civil legal issues. These include, but are not limited to custody, guardianship, housing, consumer debt, public benefits, education, and advance planning. Assisting Kinship Families with civil legal issues ensures stability for children being raised by non-biological parents.
Westchester’s Kinship Unit helps grandparents, relatives, or non-biological parents raising children navigate civil legal issues. These include, but are not limited to custody, guardianship, housing, consumer debt, public benefits, education, and advance planning. Assisting Kinship Families with civil legal issues ensures stability for children being raised by non-biological parents.
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Kinship Navigator Programs
General Benefits Assistance
Westchester’s Kinship Unit helps grandparents, relatives, or non-biological parents raising children navigate civil legal issues. These include, but are not limited to custody, guardianship, housing, consumer debt, public benefits, education, and advance planning. Assisting Kinship Families with civil legal issues ensures stability for children being raised by non-biological parents.
Westchester’s Kinship Unit helps grandparents, relatives, or non-biological parents raising children navigate civil legal issues. These include, but are not limited to custody, guardianship, housing, consumer debt, public benefits, education, and advance planning. Assisting Kinship Families with civil legal issues ensures stability for children being raised by non-biological parents.
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Kinship Navigator Programs
General Benefits Assistance
Assistance and advocacy with obtaining benefits for a range of services such as funerals and burials, disability claims and compensation, nursing home care and VA pensions. Information on Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder and job finding assistance.
Assistance and advocacy with obtaining benefits for a range of services such as funerals and burials, disability claims and compensation, nursing home care and VA pensions. Information on Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder and job finding assistance.
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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Veteran Support Groups
Job Search / Placement
Provides a service, in collaboration with 2 other agencies (My Sisters' Place and Westchester Hispanic Coalition) to offer free legal services for poverty level residents or those who are victims of domestic violence for consumer disputes, housing, education, benefits, domestic violence, orders of protection, custody, child support, family law, including citizenship applications, work authorizations or other immigration issues.
Provides a service, in collaboration with 2 other agencies (My Sisters' Place and Westchester Hispanic Coalition) to offer free legal services for poverty level residents or those who are victims of domestic violence for consumer disputes, housing, education, benefits, domestic violence, orders of protection, custody, child support, family law, including citizenship applications, work authorizations or other immigration issues.
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Landlord / Tenant Dispute Resolution
Permanent Restraining Orders
General Benefits Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Child Support Assistance / Enforcement
Domestic / Family Violence Legal Services
Landlord Rights Information / Counseling
Criminal Temporary Protective Orders
Temporary Restraining Orders
Child Custody / Visitation Assistance
Comprehensive Immigration / Naturalization Services
Consumer Law
Goals include advocacy, sharing information and resources, facilitating family organizations in each state, developing family/professional partnerships and support national policy to benefit people with deaf-blindness.
Goals include advocacy, sharing information and resources, facilitating family organizations in each state, developing family/professional partnerships and support national policy to benefit people with deaf-blindness.
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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Individual and Family Support Services
Professional Skills Development Support
Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Assists veterans or the surviving spouse of a veteran with financial aid through the VA to help pay for non-medical home care services, such as light housekeeping, errand running, and meal preparation. Call for more information.
Assists veterans or the surviving spouse of a veteran with financial aid through the VA to help pay for non-medical home care services, such as light housekeeping, errand running, and meal preparation. Call for more information.
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Errand Running / Shopping Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Housekeeping Assistance
In Home Meal Preparation
Provides information and referrals about food stamps, nutrition, eviction, housing, employment resources, health awareness, etc. Also offers assistance to seniors who need help understanding benefits, medical bills, housing issues, applications, etc.
Provides information and referrals about food stamps, nutrition, eviction, housing, employment resources, health awareness, etc. Also offers assistance to seniors who need help understanding benefits, medical bills, housing issues, applications, etc.
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General Benefits Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Offers mental health peer support, benefits, information and referrals.
Offers mental health peer support, benefits, information and referrals.
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Specialized Information and Referral
Peer to Peer Networking
General Benefits Assistance
Offers peer advocates to assist individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities, to establish goals, and increase their independence. Peer counseling includes vocational assistance, budgeting, self-advocacy, interpersonal and independent skills training. Also provides benefits advisement, to help in navigating public assistance and Social Security, along with assistance with the Medicaid Buy-in program, teaching consumers to fill out forms, or helping them to understand work incentive programs.
Offers peer advocates to assist individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities, to establish goals, and increase their independence. Peer counseling includes vocational assistance, budgeting, self-advocacy, interpersonal and independent skills training. Also provides benefits advisement, to help in navigating public assistance and Social Security, along with assistance with the Medicaid Buy-in program, teaching consumers to fill out forms, or helping them to understand work incentive programs.
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General Benefits Assistance
Peer to Peer Networking
Social Security Disability Insurance
Provides information and referrals for eligible veterans and their families about benefit programs, education, financial assistance, disability-related issues and other resources.
Provides information and referrals for eligible veterans and their families about benefit programs, education, financial assistance, disability-related issues and other resources.
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Specialized Information and Referral
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Serves as an umbrella policy and advocacy organization for about 200 member groups that advise immigrants and refugees on health care, housing, worker rights, legal issues and voter rights.
Serves as an umbrella policy and advocacy organization for about 200 member groups that advise immigrants and refugees on health care, housing, worker rights, legal issues and voter rights.
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Immigrant Rights Groups
Immigrant / Refugee Support Groups
Immigrant Benefits Assistance
Connecting veterans, military families with financial assistance programs to modify their homes, caregiving guidance and job search information.
Connecting veterans, military families with financial assistance programs to modify their homes, caregiving guidance and job search information.
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Home Rehabilitation Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Job Training Resource Lists
Guides customers through various utility assistance programs to help maintain service, manage energy expenses and make informed decisions. Services are free and confidential. Please call us at 631-755-3407 for assistance in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Monday-Friday from 8:30AM-4PM. Customers may also email us at [email protected] to determine eligibility for a variety of assistance programs. Provides the services of a consumer advocate to individuals applying for various social assistance programs. All services are confidential.
Guides customers through various utility assistance programs to help maintain service, manage energy expenses and make informed decisions. Services are free and confidential. Please call us at 631-755-3407 for assistance in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Monday-Friday from 8:30AM-4PM. Customers may also email us at [email protected] to determine eligibility for a variety of assistance programs. Provides the services of a consumer advocate to individuals applying for various social assistance programs. All services are confidential.
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General Benefits Assistance
Utility Assistance
Offers a variety of programs for children, teenagers, adults, and seniors, such as reading club, story hour, and other programs that encourage reading and and expand their knowledge for the arts and culture, including a one-to-one tutoring for individuals preparing for their GED. Also provides support services to seniors explaining benefits and other questions on government entitlements.
Offers a variety of programs for children, teenagers, adults, and seniors, such as reading club, story hour, and other programs that encourage reading and and expand their knowledge for the arts and culture, including a one-to-one tutoring for individuals preparing for their GED. Also provides support services to seniors explaining benefits and other questions on government entitlements.
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Horticultural Societies
High School Exit Examination Preparation
General Benefits Assistance
Children's Library Services
Education Exit Examinations
Youth Enrichment Programs
Provides respite reimbursement for technology dependent, medically fragile, chronically ill and developmentally disabled children ages birth through 18 years
Provides respite reimbursement for technology dependent, medically fragile, chronically ill and developmentally disabled children ages birth through 18 years
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Respite Care
Benefits Assistance
Assist families needing services and with identifying resources in the community and accessing these services, such as applying for Medicaid, coordinating referral materials for eligibility, family advocacy with school districts, assistance with obtaining guardianship and accessing other needed support.
Assist families needing services and with identifying resources in the community and accessing these services, such as applying for Medicaid, coordinating referral materials for eligibility, family advocacy with school districts, assistance with obtaining guardianship and accessing other needed support.
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General Benefits Assistance
Provides assistance with disability rights, VA benefits, discharge upgrades, housing, child support (restrictions), domestic violence (restrictions), and entitlements.
Provides assistance with disability rights, VA benefits, discharge upgrades, housing, child support (restrictions), domestic violence (restrictions), and entitlements.
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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Disability Compensation Benefits
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Provides information and education on Immigration Laws. Offers assistance in filing applications with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Provides information and education on Immigration Laws. Offers assistance in filing applications with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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Immigrant Visa Application Filing Assistance
Immigration / Naturalization Legal Services
Specialized Information and Referral
Immigrant Benefits Assistance
Provides a food pantry for Veterans, the Military and their families, and families in need. LI Cares hosts Military Appreciation Tuesdays in Huntington Station, Lindenhurst, and Freeport which gives veterans and their families access to food, personal care items, household products, pet food, and school supplies. Also veterans are provided with information and resources pertaining to veteran special benefits. LI Cares also operates a Mobile Pantry which delivers nutritious groceries to homebound, disabled veterans unable to access their local pantries.
Provides a food pantry for Veterans, the Military and their families, and families in need. LI Cares hosts Military Appreciation Tuesdays in Huntington Station, Lindenhurst, and Freeport which gives veterans and their families access to food, personal care items, household products, pet food, and school supplies. Also veterans are provided with information and resources pertaining to veteran special benefits. LI Cares also operates a Mobile Pantry which delivers nutritious groceries to homebound, disabled veterans unable to access their local pantries.
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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Emergency Food
Pet Food
Mobile Food Pantry Programs
Outreach Programs
Free School Supplies
Household Goods
Specialized Information and Referral
Provides benefits and entitlement counseling, long term care planning, information and referral services, and application assistance and advocacy. Community outreach and education regarding various programs and services are also provided and are available to community groups upon request. Suffolk County Office for the Aging provides a Senior Advocate to assist seniors with applications for various entitlements and benefits. Also assists Health Providers with insurance problems and claims appeals. Call to schedule appointment and further information
Provides benefits and entitlement counseling, long term care planning, information and referral services, and application assistance and advocacy. Community outreach and education regarding various programs and services are also provided and are available to community groups upon request. Suffolk County Office for the Aging provides a Senior Advocate to assist seniors with applications for various entitlements and benefits. Also assists Health Providers with insurance problems and claims appeals. Call to schedule appointment and further information
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Insurance Claims Assistance
Individual Advocacy
Benefits Assistance
Older Adults
Case / Care Management
Will offer referrals to needed services in the community, help with claims against employers who discriminate and/or do not pay, help file police reports if they are robbed or assaulted, etc.
Will offer referrals to needed services in the community, help with claims against employers who discriminate and/or do not pay, help file police reports if they are robbed or assaulted, etc.
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General Benefits Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Employment Discrimination Assistance
Individual Advocacy
Membership is restricted to the combat wounded, but MOPH provides support to all veterans and their dependents throughout the United States. They help to create jobs, offer scholarships, and maintain continuous liaison with Congress on issues related to veterans. Meetings held 3rd Thursday of month at 8pm.
Membership is restricted to the combat wounded, but MOPH provides support to all veterans and their dependents throughout the United States. They help to create jobs, offer scholarships, and maintain continuous liaison with Congress on issues related to veterans. Meetings held 3rd Thursday of month at 8pm.
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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veterans
Veteran Education Benefits
Retired Military
Veteran Membership Organizations
Offers peer support, benefits advisement and linkages to community resources for individuals with mental illness.
Offers peer support, benefits advisement and linkages to community resources for individuals with mental illness.
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General Benefits Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Peer to Peer Networking
Offers a volunteer service provided by veterans for veterans. Any veteran requesting DAV transport should call at least two (2) weeks before an appointment. The DAV Transportation Coordinator will determine eligibility and availability of transportation. Since space is limited, you must be scheduled at least two weeks in advance. Please call if you have any questions. Volunteer drivers are always needed. Please consider helping other veterans by volunteering to drive a van. Call for detailed information.
Offers a volunteer service provided by veterans for veterans. Any veteran requesting DAV transport should call at least two (2) weeks before an appointment. The DAV Transportation Coordinator will determine eligibility and availability of transportation. Since space is limited, you must be scheduled at least two weeks in advance. Please call if you have any questions. Volunteer drivers are always needed. Please consider helping other veterans by volunteering to drive a van. Call for detailed information.
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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Transportation
Analyzes public policy issues and impending legislation and coordinates advocacy efforts by, and on behalf of persons with Alzheimer's disease and their families.
Analyzes public policy issues and impending legislation and coordinates advocacy efforts by, and on behalf of persons with Alzheimer's disease and their families.
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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disability Rights Groups