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Provides support to senior citizens in the Baldwinsville area and the Town of Elbridge. Services include social/recreation activities, medical information, referrals, and advocacy in areas of concern or interest to seniors.

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Information and Referral
Outreach Programs
Certificates/Forms Assistance
*Provides patients and families with timely and accurate information through digital and print media about retinal degenerative diseases and the research to overcome them, as well as low or no vision coping strategies, resources, and services. * Motivate patients and families to increase public awareness of AMD and other retinal degenerative diseases and encourage public support for retinal disease research. *Provides information about genetic testing, treatments being developed, treatments being evaluated in clinical trials, and approved therapies.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Public Awareness/Education
* Helps plan and coordinate services for youth.* Assess youth needs to determine funding priorities.* Promote partnerships with agencies and community providers for comprehensive services.* Provide funding to youth service agencies.* Monitor and evaluate Youth Bureau funded programs to ensure quality services.* Coordinate Runaway and Homeless services for youth.* Study/examine different segments of the youth services system and issues that affect youth.* Advocate for legislation, systems change, and funding to improve/assist the youth services system.* Create mentoring opportunities for youth to interact with seniors, professionals, and community leaders.* Member of the Rochester Healthy Homes Partnership Member Organization.

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Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
Public Awareness/Education
Leadership Development
Legislative Advocacy
Youth Community Service Programs
System Advocacy
Helps seniors complete medical forms and applications, research and identify concerns and problems, and connect with programs and services to address problems and meet needs by a trained senior services professional. Provides information about income stretching programs, such as SSI, SNAP, EPIC, HEAP, and IT-214 form property tax reduction.

* Provides programs to individuals with disabilities with the goal of creating more opportunities, supporting independent decision making, pursuing recreational activities, and becoming a part of the community. Services include: Peer Advocacy Benefits Advisement Education and Housing Advocacy Architectural Consultations and Access Advocacy Recreational Access Consultations Disability Awareness Community Programs and Presentations Community Habilitation Employment Personal Care Bank Freedom Recreation and Freedom Riders Smoking Cessation classes

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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Housing Advocacy Groups
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Accessibility Related Standards/Legislation Compliance
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Centers for Independent Living
Individual Advocacy
Equestrian Therapy
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Public Awareness/Education
* Provides a Syringe Service program serving the Finger Lakes Region. Sterile syringes and works (caps, cottons, sterile water) Safer injection education Harm reduction counseling/education Delivery syringe services/ Peer Delivered Syringe Exchange Opioid Overdose Prevention training Free Narcan (Naloxone) Safe disposal of used or unwanted syringes Same day/24hr Suboxone or other MAT start Same day rapid testing for HIV/ Hepatitis C/ Syphilis Gonorrhea/ Chlamydia swab testing (not rapid) Hygiene supplies Syringe litter pickup Outreach and community engagement* Offers linkages to other forms of care, including care management, medical care, substance use counseling and treatment, and other supportive services.

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Hepatitis Testing
Physician Referrals
Needle Exchange and Injection Supplies
Opioid Antidote Distribution
Public Awareness/Education
HIV Testing
Sharps Disposal Programs
* Provides Mental Health Screening and Linkage supports older adults to find resources and can provide hands on service to connected them to a program.

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Friendly Visiting
Senior Advocacy Groups
Daily Money Management Services
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Geriatric Counseling
Caregiver Training
Personal Care
Public Awareness/Education
Mental Health Evaluation
* 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.

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General Mental Health Information/Education
Talklines/Warmlines
Public Awareness/Education
Specialized Information and Referral
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Mental Health Associations
* Provides in-home mental health crisis intervention for at risk youths. Immediate intervention, evaluation and stabilization. Case consultation with other agency care providers. Liaison with health providers. Community education. Staff development and training. Family support. Livingston County Counseling and Mental Heath Services serves as a back up for the Mobile Mental Health Team when the team is unavailable.

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Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams
Public Awareness/Education
* Provides fundraising for Cystic Fibrosis.* Offers education and public awareness on Cystic Fibrosis.* Provides support of the Cystic Fibrosis Center and Clinic at Strong Memorial Hospital.* Volunteer opportunities.

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Public Awareness/Education
Charities/Grantmaking Organizations
Offers prevention services that include free and confidential HIV, HCV, STI testing for at-risk men, short-term prevention case management services, peer delivered support and outreach, and risk reduction education.

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Hepatitis Testing
Contraception
Safe Sex Supplies
Safer Sex Education
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
AIDS/HIV Prevention Counseling
Public Awareness/Education
* Collaborates across 40 agencies that are based in, or provide service to coverage region. Strategy development to improve health service delivery. Wellness programs, violence prevention, and youth development. * Does not provide direct services.

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Youth Violence Prevention
Wellness Programs
Public Awareness/Education
* Provides support to victims of sexual assault and their loved ones.* Offers 24/7 hotlines service with trained counselors and advocates. * Offers Short-term counseling, accompaniment, and advocacy.* Provides training workshops for both students and professionals. Affiliation with SAFE Center/Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Center at Strong Memorial Hospital

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Individual Advocacy
Specialized Crime Victim Assistance
Public Awareness/Education
Sexual Assault Counseling
Crime Victim Accompaniment Services
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Community Outreach outlines services that St. Mary's offers as well as various support groups in the community with up-to-date information on all topics
* Offers supportive services for individuals living with HIV. * Provides HIV, STD, and Hepatitis C prevention, testing and education services. Individual counseling, referral to health care and supportive services, and family stabilization services.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Public Awareness/Education
* Provides treatment and recovery resources and services to anyone negatively impacted by problem gambling. Such as: Direct and warm connections to local network of licensed counselors. Clinical and peer-based group meetings. Online tools and support. * Increases awareness on problem gambling. * Provides free staff trainings for local agencies that work in the community.

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Public Awareness/Education
Gambling Disorder Helplines
* Provides education programs and information about area resources including support groups and wellness programs.

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Public Awareness/Education
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
* Offers individual support for families of children with disabilities and suspected disabilities by providing information about navigating special education and disability systems. * Supports young and older adults with disabilities and their families with information, referral, and advocacy. * Hosts information on their website and hosts webinars and workshops.

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Health/Disability Related Counseling
Disease/Disability Information
Public Awareness/Education
School System Advocacy
* Provides battered persons with the name and phone number of the local agency that can assist them as well as provide Domestic Violence materials that are available.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Public Awareness/Education
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
* Provides ambulance and first responder services.* Offers on-site free blood pressure readings.* Provides demonstrations for local schools and organizations, community events, and other groups.

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Disaster/Emergency Services Volunteer Opportunities
Blood Pressure Screening
Emergency Medical Transportation
Public Awareness/Education
* Offers a wide array of resources and information on topics related to heart disease and stroke available online.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Public Awareness/Education
Provides a safe space for for LGBTQ youth to gather and receive support from caring adults through case management services, HIV, STD and Hepatitis C testing, mental health assessments, referrals for LGBTQ affirming clinical services, and referrals to LGBTQ affirming health and human service providers. Offers after school programming and support groups for youth, parents and families.

LGBTQ Youth & Allies (ages 13-17) - Meet Tuesday, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
TransYouth (ages 13-22) - Meet the First and Third Wednesday of the month, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
TransParent Group - Meet the First and Third Wednesday of the month, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Unity Group (gender non-conforming youth ages 3-22) - Meet the First Monday of the month, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Q Kids (ages 8-12) - Meet the Third Wednesday of the month, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Youth of Color (ages 13-22) - Meet the Second and Fourth Wednesday of the month, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Steppin' Out (ages 18-22) - Meet Thursday, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
COLAGE (ages 8-12) for children of LGBTQ parents - Meet the Fourth Monday of the month, September - June, 5:30 PM - 7 PM

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Adolescent/Youth Counseling
LGBTQ2+ Community Centers
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
Drop In Centers
Homework Help Programs
Outreach Programs
Subject Tutoring
Confidential HIV Testing
LGBTQ2+ Social Clubs
Case/Care Management
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
Study Skills Assistance
Academic Counseling
Develops informational materials on current consumer issues, available in print or on the internet, and conducts informational programs. Offers presentations on issues such as consumer scams, senior citizen consumer issues, identity theft, internet safety, and financial literacy.

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Printed/Printable Materials
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Public Internet Access Sites
Government Consumer Protection Agencies

* Offers information and referral on programs and services for the blind and visually impaired.
* Provides legislative advocacy on laws affecting blind persons.
* Offers college scholarships to blind and visually impaired students.
* Provides legislative and governmental monitoring.
* Holds annual conference featuring a large trade show of the latest high- and low-tech gadgets for blind and visually impaired people.

* Publishes monthly magazine, "The ACB Braille Forum," in braille, large print, on digital cartridge, via email, podcast, and download.

* Has an Internet radio station, ACB Media (https://www.acbmedia.org), which offers ten channels of music, talk, and entertainment.

* ACB's Community Events offer a wide variety of topics, from education to technology training, cooking and social events, braille classes, games, yoga, and much more. Visit https://www.acb.org/acb-community-events to learn more.

* ACB's Audio Description Project (https://www.acb.org/audio-description-project) maintains a list of audio-described movies, broadcast TV, DVDs, performing arts, museums, and national parks on their website. The project also offers two Audio Description Institutes each year, where people can learn how to become audio describers.


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Scholarships
Information and Referral
Advocacy
Public Awareness/Education
* Provides training to recognize the signs of opioid overdose and proper administration of Naloxone (Narcan). * Developed a program to take into churches, schools, facilities and organizations to provide education and awareness around the Opioid Epidemic. * Offers a Peer support group.

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General Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups
Public Awareness/Education