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

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 peer support advocacy, information and referral, educational, support groups with childcare to parents/guardians raising a child with emotional, behavioral, mental, and/or developmental challenges.

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 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 community-based system of care for families of children with disabilities. Offers both formal and informal services, with an emphasis on self-determination and family control, to help support families with children who have a disability. Offers family engagement activities, peer support, advocacy training, and parenting groups and classes.

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.

Assesses and arranges or provides appropriate preventive services as defined by OCFS to families with issues that put the child/children at risk of placement 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 information and technical assistance to families navigating special education processes. * Offers training and technical assistance to professionals and families. * Assists with locating resources for families and professionals working with children with disabilities.

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.

Provides youth and their families with intensive support in the home, school, and community. Services include case management, crisis intervention services, and skill development.

A strength-based program that serves youth ages 0-21 years with serious emotional difficulties, developmental disabilities (if in foster care), and medical fragility. Enrollment in the program is voluntary and no fees are charged to the family. Staff meet with the family/youth in their home and other locations chosen by the family.

Provides a community-based system of care for families of children with disabilities. Offers both formal and informal services, with an emphasis on self-determination and family control, to help support families with children who have a disability. Offers family engagement activities, peer support, advocacy training, and parenting groups and classes.

Provides supports and raising awareness for community families through one-on-one advocacy, and support, goal setting, budget development and individual attention as well as larger community presentations, increased access to services, and referrals to appropriate community resources.

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.

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 services to families to prevent child foster care placement, abuse, or neglect. Includes assessment, counseling, development of support systems, teaching positive parental functioning, day care, homemaker, and coordination of services.

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 parent education opportunities, lending library with parenting materials, developmentally appropriate play space for children birth to five, and community resource and referrals.

Serves as a one-stop source of information, activities and materials to help improve parent-child interaction through parenting workshops, developmental and health screenings, supervised visits, a comprehensive library and home visits when needed.

The Human Services Division provides families and individuals with services that will enhance the ability of families to live together, enable individuals to remain in their homes, minimize the risk of abuse or neglect, and provide for specialized care in residential settings when necessary.

Offers healthcare outreach services including education and referrals to related resources and systems of care to Village of Hempstead residents.

A free public elementary school that offers grades 4th to 6th for students living in the school district boundaries.

A free public elementary school that offers grades Kindergarten to 5th for students living in the school district boundaries.