* 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

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.

* Advocates and works to ensure political, social, educational, and economic equality and eliminate racial discrimination.

* Investigates alleged discrimination in employment, education, housing, religion and public accommodations.* Provides referrals for free legal service provided part-time for housing, food stamps, social services issues only.* Designs and presents public education programs.

A group for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, as well as those struggling with gender identity.

Answers questions; provides information; and offers support on health and health insurance post enrollment-related issues so that individuals and families get health care they need.

* 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.

* 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.

* Assists in locating housing, linking people to public assistance, rental subsidies and financial assistance, advocating with landlords, and assisting in conflict resolution.

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.

* Offers information, referral and assistance with applications for home improvement grants.* Offers the housing rehabilitation program. Development of low-income single family housing. Traditional real estate services to buyers and sellers.

Program offers assistance, information, education and referral about benefits, housing, nursing home advocacy and diversion to avoid moving into a nursing home, respite services for care givers, consumer-directed personal services, traumatic brain injury services, and a personal care bank for toiletries and supplies for families in need.

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 assistance to enable community groups to decide on plan of action, especially if decision involves environmental or governmental concerns.Solid Waste Education-Composting and RecyclingConnection to Master Foresters

Joint ministry of local congregations serving the community and SUNY Cortland.Programs include: "Stuff that Matters," Thursdays, 4:30 pm: free meal for students who want to talk about their concerns. "Support for the Grieving," five weekly two-hour sessions through the year. Contact Donald Wilcox, Cortland County Council of Churches, 607-753-1002 or Cortland County Area on Aging, 607-753-5060.

Offers parish social ministry program including human development and social justice through convenings, advocacy and encouragement of parish-based social ministers.

Assists in landlord/tenant issues and is active in rural, homeless prevention and assistance in affordable housing for working families.

Brings together people who might not otherwise have the opportunity to meet and get to know each other through small group deliberation and dialogue that promotes racial and social justice. Offers a school exchange program that matches students at seven Syracuse city schools with those attending seven suburban high schools and middle schools to participate in facilitated dialogue sessions that aim to break down racial and ethnic stereotypes and build bridges of understanding.

* Facilitates anti-violence education programming and support services. Project Exile comprised of representatives from local, state and federal prosecutors and law enforcement, as well as businesses, clergy, and community organizations working to share information and improve communications among those who are waging the battles against illegal guns and drugs in our community. Project T.I.P.S. community agencies and law enforcement personnel working in selected neighborhoods to rebuild trust among residents and share information.

ICAN is the New York State Ombudsman program for people with Medicaid long-term care services - through either a Medicaid Managed Care Plan or Managed Long-Term Care Plan. All services are free and confidential. Services include: Private, one-on-one counseling about health insurance options that provide long-term care services in the home and skilled nursing facility (nursing home) whether in person at AOP's offices, over the phone, or in your home. Assistance can include appeals of denied services, approved but incomplete services, fair hearings, issues related to Medicaid transportation services, etc. Educational sessions for consumers and caregivers Professional training for social services organizations Educational material provided through this website

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.

* 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.

The Access to Independence (ATI) Housing Education Program: advocates for affordable, accessible and integrated housing throughout the Central NY region Quarterly meetings of the Cortland County Housing Consortium Provide information on fair housing and tenant rights brings tenants, landlords, service providers and community members together to share: new housing options for people with disabilities solutions to housing issues best practices with other stakeholders

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.