* Provides care management and a wide variety of subsidized services for participants.

* Provides mental health services to adults, families. * Models recovery, teach skills and offer peer counseling and support to help people experiencing mental health challenges lead meaningful lives in the community. * Promotes recovery; enhance hope and social networking through role modeling and activation; and supplement existing treatment with education, empowerment, and aid in system navigation.

Service Access Liaison Program provides short-term services to help navigate through the Front Door process.

Offers information, education and referral about adaptive equipment, accessibility, disability awareness, ramps and home modifications, medical equipment for loan, and civil rights for people with disabilities.

Provides educational and informational programs on MS. Also provides financial assistance, support groups, MS Service Day, scholarships, care management and other support services.

Community for women with common interests to develop friendships and act on vital social issues.Meets monthly from September through May, usually on the third Wednesday evening of the month. Speakers from the community explore issues affecting women and girls and education. Meetings are open to the public; guests are welcome.Develops at least one community action project annually, lobbying legislators and working with other community groups to: improve schools broaden young women's career horizons sponsor voter education forums provide more opportunities for women

* Collaborates effort between neighborhood citizens and the City of Rochester's four district neighborhood centers to deal with a variety of neighborhood issues; Neighborhood planning and coordination services. Police and Citizens Together Against Crimes (PAC-TAC) Program: Volunteers in the community work with an on-duty patrol officer or crime prevention officer and help prevent crime. Neighborhood Watch Programs. * Provides car seat safety inspections for residents of their district.

reviews ongoing and upcoming city projects and advises the Board of Public Works, Common Council, Planning and Development Board, Parks Commission and other appropriate city bodies on bicycle, pedestrian and accessibility issues to ensure that such projects accommodate and encourage safe and legal travel by bicycles, pedestrians and people with disabilities advocates for implementation of city plans for travel by bicycle,on foot and by people with disabilities and traffic calming makes and advocates for other recommendations regarding cyclists, pedestrians and people with disabilities reports quarterly to Common Council about how recent transportation projects affect cyclists, pedestrians and people with disabilitiesthe Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Council meets at City Hall in the Second Floor conference room, which is accessible after going through security at the front door.The Bicycle Pedestrian Council meets on the 4th Monday at 6:00 p.m.

Assists with: Contract violations Unjust termination Discrimination (age, gender, race or sexual determination) Harassment or bullying of any kind Occupational Health & Safety Violations Unemployment insurance

Provide Health Homes and Ryan White care management services to persons living with various chronic illnesses (HIV, Mental Health, Asthma, Diabetes, Hepatitis C, etc.) in Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Tioga and Tompkins Counties.

Provides support and guidance for people with disabilities to ensure that individual choices and independent living are respected. Includes assistance with benefits, homelessness, evictions, disability rights issues, accessibility issues in the home or in the community, information and referrals, assistance in learning independent living skills, and peer support.

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.

* Provide a safe place for individuals and families, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.* Offers individual and support groups:Assistance and supportive counseling to LGBTQ+ individuals and their loved ones.Support finding gender-affirming care and services.Assistance with DASA (Dignity for All Students Act) and discrimination.Educational services and presentations.Assistance with name changes.Domestic Violence support.YANA (You Are Not Alone) - a peer-ran support group for LGTBQ+ youth.Transgerd & Gender Expansive Coalition of the Finger Lakes.Haven; LGBTQ+-identifying adults, less formal format. Focus on finding community with each other.Square one.

Allows families to sit down and talk things over with a trained volunteer mediator.

* Provides basic personal services for homeless individuals who do not have access to private facilities or materials for grooming.* Services include free laundry facilities, showers, haircuts, personal hygiene products. * Provides referrals for clothing, and household goods. * Provides individuals who arrive for personal care assistance with referrals to additional social services, such as legal assistance, medical and dental care, employment, housing placement, and educational services such as literacy and GED programs.

Promotes the independence of older adults age 60 years and older. Assists people to remain in the community through helping meet the unmet needs that older residents struggle with.

* Provide a safe place for individuals and families, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.* Offers individual and support groups:Assistance and supportive counseling to LGBTQ+ individuals and their loved ones.Support finding gender-affirming care and services.Assistance with DASA (Dignity for All Students Act) and discrimination.Educational services and presentations.Assistance with name changes.Domestic Violence support.YANA (You Are Not Alone) - a peer-ran support group for LGTBQ+ youth.Transgerd & Gender Expansive Coalition of the Finger Lakes.Haven; LGBTQ+-identifying adults, less formal format. Focus on finding community with each other.Square one.

* 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.

Work with people with disabilities, their families, and friends in areas of systems advocacy pertaining to educational, employment, voting, civil, housing, healthcare, accessibility, and transportation rights.

* Promotes mental health and recovery, encourage empowerment in mental health service recipients, eliminate discrimination, raise public awareness with education, and advocate for equality and opportunity for all.

* Provides educational and support programs for the individual living with mental illness and family members. These include: Support groups. Classes and workshops. Helpline. * Provides information about the service delivery system, legislation and community programs and resources. * Offers education in the community presented by individuals and family members with the lived experience of mental illness/health. * Offers special annual events.

Advocating for and counseling New York State seniors, focusing on: protecting Social Security and ensuring adequate income for seniors providing Medicare and Medicaid information maintaining access to affordable prescription drugs information about patients' rights, regardless of age, related to: being denied hospital admission to a hospital or premature discharge; situations where discharge planning or necessary post-hospital care is unavailable, inadequate or unaffordable Assists with medical billing and medical debt issues meeting long-term care needs expanding community services for seniors and people with disabilities, including affordable housing and transportation strengthening consumer protections For more information on chapter meetings, please call us at 800-333-4374 Counseling: call the Patient Rights/Affordable Medicines Helpline for one-on-one counseling on Medicare questions.Serves as the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) for NYS and handles Medicare fraud issues for NYS.