Provides different support programs for families.

Skill Building: Works with families of children with special needs to increase communication and assist with advocating for the youth in need. Classes are offered for parents and youth either separately or together.

Family Partners: Offers peer support to assist with systems navigation, provide information about family and children's issues, accompany parents to court and school meetings.

Family Team Conferences: Creates teams with families to work on goals and build on strengths within the family. Providers and natural supports are used.

Provides support groups, parenting skills training, parent advocacy skill building, and home management skills. Assists families during transition phases of services such as placement, crisis, or between service systems.

* Provides a linkage of families and individuals who have a brain injury, which includes: Family Advocacy: Support and counseling, connecting family with funding resources, housing, transportation, and service providers. Educational Advocacy: Support and counseling for educational needs after a brain injury, helping family with IEP process, and attendance at CSE meetings. Outreach: Connection with service providers, hospitals, schools, etc. to increase awareness of BIANYS, traumatic and acquired brain injury, and increasing FACTS enrollment. Prevention: Connection with service providers, hospitals, schools, etc. to teach injury prevention and safety. Training: Connection with service providers, hospitals, schools, etc. to conducts trainings about traumatic and acquired brain injury.

The Outreach Center at Cheryl's Lodge offers center-based programs for low-income individuals and families within the Shenendehowa district and beyond. Programs include after school program, summer camps, High School Equivalency, Head Start (through Saratoga Economic Opportunity Council) Community Education, Literacy Support and more.

The Outreach Center at Cheryl's Lodge offers center-based programs for low-income individuals and families within the Shenendehowa district and beyond. Programs include after school program, summer camps, High School Equivalency, Head Start (through Saratoga Economic Opportunity Council) Community Education, Literacy Support and more.

Focuses on prenatal and parents of newborns with risk factors of poor developmental outcomes and risks of abuse. Offers a home-visiting program with support services until the child starts school. Services include parenting skills education, child development, screening for developmental delays, accessing and connecting families to other needed resources

Focuses on prenatal and parents of newborns with risk factors of poor developmental outcomes and risks of abuse. Offers a home-visiting program with support services until the child starts school. Services include parenting skills education, child development, screening for developmental delays, accessing and connecting families to other needed resources

Offers Concrete services (i.e.: day care, homemaking, budgeting, advocacy, etc.), casework counseling, and referral services are provided to eligible families in order to avert placements of children outside their homes, enhance family functioning and/or expedite reunification of children in care with their biological families. Eligible families include those at some risk of foster care and pregnant and/or parenting adolescents. Referrals to preventive services can be made by calling 516-227-7789. Also offered is PINS Diversion Program - Services are provided through contract agencies, to families in crisis whose children might be experiencing truancy, gang involvement, running away from home, and substance abuse issues or other unmanageable behaviors in order to prevent/avert the filing of a Pins Petition and placement out of the home. PINS Information and Intake can be reached at 516-227-8404. Call for detailed information regarding services and programs offered.

The Rockland Community College Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) is a dropout prevention and college access program that is funded by the New York State Education Department. RCC LPP serves 340 historically excluded students (grades 7-12) in the East Ramapo, North Rockland and Nyack school districts. Rockland Community College LPP is committed to the belief that all students can learn and should have equal access to resources.

Provides parenting education and a drop-in center for parents and young children (birth-5yrs) for family fun and learning. Offers parenting workshops. Volunteers and donations welcome.

Provides support and home visitation on an as-needed basis to pregnant/parenting adults. Group sessions take place three mornings a week and provide parenting education, basic life skills, information and linkages to other community programs. Childcare is provided during group sessions and transportation tokens can be acquired to get to and from group.

Provides a food pantry and assists with food and other emergencies such as utilities, fuel, and shelter. Also works with families in the area of family development, including budgeting as well as job skills and job search assistance.

Provides weekly educational enrichment activities and monthly field trips which encourage creativity, positive relationships, personal skill development and cultivation of values that value oneself, and others.

Starting with the individual's strengths and interests and emphasizing personal choice, The Arc Otsego offers comprehensive network of community-based programs and services that encourage individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Assisst with medicaid service coordination, obtaining respite services, skill training assistance, environmental modifications, adaptive technologies and guardianship.

The Outreach Center at Cheryl's Lodge offers center-based programs for low-income individuals and families within the Shenendehowa district and beyond. Programs include after school program, summer camps, High School Equivalency, Head Start (through Saratoga Economic Opportunity Council) Community Education, Literacy Support and more.

* Provides support services for families. Services include:Family Access and Connection Team(FACT) - engages with families of children and youth with high needs to set goals and work through challenges. Short term intervention including assessments and making referrals to service providersYouth and Family Partnership(YFP) - Creates individualized plans that allow youth and family to develop strategies and supports to address and manage challengesFamily Voice - Assists families of children with mental, emotional, and behavioral problems. Family support includes individual support and Family Voice meetings

* Provides a linkage of families and individuals who have a brain injury, which includes:

• Family Advocacy: Support and counseling, connecting family with funding resources, housing, transportation, and service providers
• Educational Advocacy: Support and counseling for educational needs after a brain injury, helping family with IEP process, and attendance at CSE meetings
• Outreach: Connection with service providers, hospitals, schools, etc. to increase awareness of BIANYS, traumatic and acquired brain injury, and increasing FACTS enrollment
• Prevention: Connection with service providers, hospitals, schools, etc. to teach injury prevention and safety
• Training: Connection with service providers, hospitals, schools, etc. to conducts training's about traumatic and acquired brain injury

Provides a food pantry and assists with food and other emergencies such as utilities, fuel, and shelter. Also works with families in the area of family development, including budgeting as well as job skills and job search assistance.

Provides information and referral services dedicated to helping anyone in need. Services include: HELPline, a family outreach project, family support groups, a family library, family forums, and a center for families with a mentally ill relative. Call for more information.

A free public high school that offers grades 9th to 12th for students living in the school district boundaries.

A peer run program providing support, education, and advocacy to families who have a child/adolescent that has emotional and/or behavioral health challenges. Provides a short-term respite program for families that qualify. Hosts a monthly support group for transition age youth (teens and young adults 18 and over). Also provides support to the behavioral health units of BryLin Hospital and Erie County Medical Center.

A family-driven service in which caregivers partner with a Family Peer Advocate who has lived experience helping parents navigate systems more effectively, learn from the experiences of other families, decrease isolation, and gain hope, ideas, and information. Families can enroll in one or all of the following service components to best meet their needs: - Individual Mentoring & Skills Development: Can be delivered in the home, community and/or office. A Family Peer Advocate provides mentoring, skills development, support, and information on community resources and linkage to other services. - Family Advocacy: This service is short term and provides instruction, support, and advocacy in areas such as School and Committee of Special Education (CSE), court (preparedness and support), and systems navigation (working with providers in various systems of care). - Parent Education & Empowerment Groups: Trainings and support groups that provide information on community resources, parent connections, and skills development. Offers opportunities for parents/caregivers to connect and build natural community supports with other parents/caregivers facing similar challenges.

A family-driven service in which caregivers partner with a Family Peer Advocate who has lived experience helping parents navigate systems more effectively, learn from the experiences of other families, decrease isolation, and gain hope, ideas, and information. Families can enroll in one or all of the following service components to best meet their needs: - Individual Mentoring & Skills Development: Can be delivered in the home, community and/or office. A Family Peer Advocate provides mentoring, skills development, support, and information on community resources and linkage to other services. - Family Advocacy: This service is short term and provides instruction, support, and advocacy in areas such as School and Committee of Special Education (CSE), court (preparedness and support), and systems navigation (working with providers in various systems of care). - Parent Education & Empowerment Groups: Trainings and support groups that provide information on community resources, parent connections, and skills development. Offers opportunities for parents/caregivers to connect and build natural community supports with other parents/caregivers facing similar challenges.

A family-driven service in which caregivers partner with a Family Peer Advocate who has lived experience helping parents navigate systems more effectively, learn from the experiences of other families, decrease isolation, and gain hope, ideas, and information. Families can enroll in one or all of the following service components to best meet their needs: - Individual Mentoring & Skills Development: Can be delivered in the home, community and/or office. A Family Peer Advocate provides mentoring, skills development, support, and information on community resources and linkage to other services. - Family Advocacy: This service is short term and provides instruction, support, and advocacy in areas such as School and Committee of Special Education (CSE), court (preparedness and support), and systems navigation (working with providers in various systems of care). - Parent Education & Empowerment Groups: Trainings and support groups that provide information on community resources, parent connections, and skills development. Offers opportunities for parents/caregivers to connect and build natural community supports with other parents/caregivers facing similar challenges.