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

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Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Discrimination Assistance
* 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.

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Neighborhood Watch Programs
Neighborhood Improvement Groups
Neighborhood Revitalization
Child Passenger Safety Seat Inspections
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 network opportunities via email and social media. * Hosts 2-3 meetings 2-3 times a year. * Shares resources and program schedules. * Advocates for the needs of children at the local, state, and regional levels. * Provides a listserve for advocacy and awareness. * Celebrates successes done for kids by providing press releases.

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Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
Public Awareness/Education
Internet Information Resources
Children's Rights Groups
Internet Support Groups
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

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Land Conservation
Environmental Improvement Groups
Education and resource center honoring civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton: developing and training leaders for a global human rights movement; building a network of human rights leadership exploring, sharing and promoting practices opening new pathways to peace, justice and healing
* 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 police services.* Offers business security.* Completes Home Security Surveys, available to homeowners.* Performs presentations to community groups and schools.* Provides fingerprinting for job applications.

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Security Evaluations
Municipal Police
Law Enforcement Community Engagement/Outreach
Employment Related Fingerprinting
Police/Community Relations Groups
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.

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Workplace Evaluation/Modification
Accessibility Related Standards/Legislation Compliance
Ramp Construction Services
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Disability Awareness Training
Home Modification Consultation
Accessibility Information
Walking Aid Donation Programs
System Advocacy
Walking Aids
Self Advocacy Support
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Hospital Beds
Adapted Health Care Devices
Medical Supplies Donation Programs
Wheelchairs/Wheeled Mobility
General Medical Equipment/Supplies Provision
Daily Living Aid Donation Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
Shower/Bath Seats
Wheelchair Donation Programs
Transportation Advocacy Groups
Hospital Bed Donation Programs
Specially trained staff provides information and referral and offers counseling on finances, health, family, housing, and other matters for persons 60+ yrs.

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Senior Advocacy Groups
Geriatric Counseling
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Senior Housing Information and Referral
Specialized Information and Referral
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Long Term Care Insurance Information/Counseling
Nursing Facility Referrals
Medicare Information/Counseling
Assists people with employment discrimination, wage and hour, equal pay, wrongful termination, reentry, and family and medical leave. Also pushes for improved employment laws and effective job training to benefit clients.

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Labor and Employment Law
Employment Related Advocacy Groups
Supported Employment
Disability Rights Groups
Legal Counseling
* 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.

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Neighborhood Watch Programs
Neighborhood Improvement Groups
Neighborhood Revitalization
Child Passenger Safety Seat Inspections
* Provides vital emotional and crisis support services. Services include: On-site face-to-face mental health assessments. Mobile Crisis Team. Referrals to available services. Follow-up from psychiatric hospitalizations. Wellness calls when someone is concerned. Phone assessments. Consultations.

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Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams
Mental Health Associations
Assists older adults 60 years old and over with services and resources to help them maintain the quality of life and independence that they have. Referrals may include health and wellness services, social enrichment activities, advocacy, case management, and home visits.

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Exercise Classes/Groups
Case/Care Management Referrals
RSVP Program
Financial Literacy Training
Senior Advocacy Groups
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.

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Workplace Evaluation/Modification
Accessibility Related Standards/Legislation Compliance
Ramp Construction Services
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Disability Awareness Training
Home Modification Consultation
Accessibility Information
Walking Aid Donation Programs
System Advocacy
Walking Aids
Self Advocacy Support
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Hospital Beds
Adapted Health Care Devices
Medical Supplies Donation Programs
Wheelchairs/Wheeled Mobility
General Medical Equipment/Supplies Provision
Daily Living Aid Donation Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
Shower/Bath Seats
Wheelchair Donation Programs
Transportation Advocacy Groups
Hospital Bed Donation Programs
* Provides affordable homeownership opportunities in Oneida County to low-income, elderly, disabled and veteran families.

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Subsidized Home Acquisition
Neighborhood Improvement Groups
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.

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System Advocacy
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Hospital Beds
Accessibility Related Standards/Legislation Compliance
Adapted Health Care Devices
Home Modification Consultation
General Medical Equipment/Supplies Provision
Accessibility Information
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Wheelchair Donation Programs
Daily Living Aid Donation Programs
Shower/Bath Seats
Walking Aid Donation Programs
Self Advocacy Support
Medical Supplies Donation Programs
Hospital Bed Donation Programs
Transportation Advocacy Groups
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
Disability Awareness Training
Assists in locating housing, linking people to public assistance, rental subsidies and financial assistance, advocating with landlords, and assisting in conflict resolution.

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Housing Advocacy Groups
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Housing Search Assistance
* 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.

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LGBTQ2+ Advocacy Groups
Public Awareness/Education
LGBTQ2+ Community Centers
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
* 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.
* Offers consumer advocacy services. Lobbying Surveys Women's health issues* Conducts annually during the Christmas season a survey of Monroe County area stores to check for dangerous toys and children's products.* Provides product safety information.* Alerts public to the dangers of cribs through the Crib Safety Program.* Provides information about the dangers of pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, lead, arsenic, heavy metals, synthetic turf, etc.* Provides a laxative safety website at laxativekids.weebly.com.

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Political Action/Lobbying Groups
Hazardous Materials Control
Product Safety Standards
Consumer Education
Public Awareness/Education
* Provides investigation and mediation services for those who feel they have been discriminated on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, physical disability, visual disability, psychiatric mental disability, marital status, source of income, age, sex, transgender status, arrest or conviction, family status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual preference, military status, domestic violence victims,and sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination.* Provides enforcement of State and Federal laws against discrimination.

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Discrimination Assistance
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
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.

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Home/Community Care Financing Programs
Attendant Services for People With Disabilities
Children's In Home Respite Care
Housing Search Assistance
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Home/Community Based Care Waiver Programs
Long Term Care Ombudsman Programs
Housing Advocacy Groups
Personal/Grooming Supplies Donation Programs
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.

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Home/Community Care Financing Programs
Attendant Services for People With Disabilities
Children's In Home Respite Care
Housing Search Assistance
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Home/Community Based Care Waiver Programs
Long Term Care Ombudsman Programs
Housing Advocacy Groups
Personal/Grooming Supplies Donation Programs