Encourages individuals with a developmental disability to reach their optimum level of functioning and maintain this level within their home and their families.

* 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.

* Provides family counseling, support groups, workshops and linkage to community resources.

* Provides visitation services to expectant parents and families with infants that promotes optimal pre-natal, better birth outcome and positive growth and development in order to improve patient child bonding, maternal health. Child visitation services bi-weekly during the early pre-natal period. Weekly visitation services during the last trimester until the child is at least 6 months old. Periodically calls thereafter based on the need of the family until the child begins school.

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 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 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 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.

Supports families by providing services and resources needed to strengthen the family unit, enable families to remain intact, and avoid unnecessary placement of children in foster care.

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.

Supports families by providing services and resources needed to strengthen the family unit, enable families to remain intact, and avoid unnecessary placement of children in foster care.

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 Family Support Services as well as Waiver Services to eligible participants. Provides Family Reimbursement, Behavior Management (not intensive), and Service Coordination and Referral. Also offers Recreation/Respite and Community Habilitation Services.

A family-driven service in which caregivers partner with a Family Peer Advocate (FPA) 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. - Empowerment Groups: These services are support groups offering community resources, parent connections, and skills development. This service gives parents/caregivers an opportunity to connect and build natural community supports with other parents/caregivers with similar challenges. - Family Advocacy: This service is short term and provides instruction and support around 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: Offers a variety of trainings and parenting classes throughout the year. Also offers GLOW Youth Peer Support, in which youth partner with a Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) who has lived experience navigating systems of care. The YPA supports youth in their resiliency, recovery, and wellness efforts by providing assistance in the following areas: - Skill Building - Coaching: Enhancing resiliency/recovery oriented attitudes (i.e., hope, confidence, and self-efficacy) - Engagement, Bridging, and Transition Support - Self-Advocacy, Self-Efficacy, & Empowerment - Community Connections & Natural Supports

Offers appropriate, affordable, and timely intervention and support for families of children in the Sweet Home School District with issues related to anxiety, depression, low self-esteem/self-image, substance use, family conflicts, peer relationships, or serious academic and/or behavioral concerns. Can also assist parents/caregivers with their own counseling needs and/or parenting support. Offers on-site clinical mental health counseling for students and families, provided by Gateway-Longview Behavioral Health Clinic, BestSelf Behavioral Health, Catholic Charities, and Williamsville Wellness Center. Families may be linked to locations in the community for counseling as well. Will also connect families seeking health insurance, financial assistance, housing, recreation programs, etc. with human service organizations and community resources that can help with these specific needs. Sponsors programs on a variety of topics, including Common Sense Parenting, mental health awareness, bullying prevention, and drug/alcohol use prevention. Also provides a resource library for parents and adolescents offering materials related to parenting, adolescent, and social issues.

Provides goal-oriented, in-depth case management to assist families in overcoming barriers like generational poverty and crisis. A case manager will work with the family to create goals, connect with community resources, and celebrate successes along the way with the aim of guiding families towards self-sufficiency and financial stability.

Educational program that coordinates multicultural support services for the Hispanic/Latino population of Buffalo and Erie County. Services include Counseling, Support Services, Interpretation, Food Pantry, Dinner Service, and Agape Support Group. Staff are completely bilingual and bicultural. ##REENTRY##

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. - Empowerment Groups: These services are support groups offering community resources, parent connections, and skills development. This service gives parents/caregivers an opportunity to connect and build natural community supports with other parents/caregivers with similar challenges. - Family Advocacy: This service is short term and provides instruction and support around 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: Offers a variety of trainings and parenting classes throughout the year.

Offers university affiliated resource center that brings research and practice together in community settings. RCASD Old Westbury provides evidence-based training and support to families and professionals, and through ongoing research, contributes knowledge to the field of autism spectrum disorders. RCASD Old Westbury provides high quality autism spectrum resources to individuals and families affected by autism, and to school personnel and community providers. RCASD functions with an overarching goal of identifying, disseminating, and assisting in the implementation of practices to build capacity to improve services and outcomes for children and youth with autism spectrum disorders. As a member of partnership of six university-affiliated programs across New York State, the RCASD at Old Westbury is part of a regional model approach demonstrated to be a successful paradigm around the nation for providing services and resources to families and professionals across the state that may not had access to cost-effective services in the past. Call for more detailed information.

Assists low income individuals and families with various needs, such as benefits information, information and referral to needed resources, advocacy, translation services, and case management assistance.Serviced ProvidedGeneral AssistanceFamily Development PlansEmergency FoodEmergency ShelterHousing AssistanceHome Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) (Income Guidelines) Weatherization Assistance Income Guidelines)Head Start and Early Head StartMass distribution of fruits and vegetablesInformation and ReferralsEmployment and job trainingFood PantryClothes ClosetLifeline Safe-Link Telephone Service (Kingston)Notary Assistance on site (Kingston)Free bread and donated produce distribution on Wednesday (Highland)Translation Services (Highland)Summer Youth Program (Highland & Ellenville)Transportation funds available as vouchers with UCAT (Highland)Bilingual in Spanish and English/ Translation services (Ellenville)Free Farm Stand

To improve student achievement and behavior at school by identifying strengths and resources in families and school, and focusing them toward a common goal.

A free public elementary school that offers grades 1st to 3rd for students living in the school district boundaries.