* 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.

* Provides peer support for people with disabilities.* Offers an employment program to help people with disabilities increase their employability.* Offers benefits advisement by providing information and advocacy while navigating government health and human service systems.* Offers healthcare advocacy by providing information and assistance with regard to Medicaid, Medicare, Medicaid Managed Care, and Medicaid Funded Services.* Works in conjunction with NY Connects in Monroe, Ontario, Yates, and Wayne County, to inform, assist, and advocate for individuals, caregivers, and family members, seeking community-based long-term services and supports.* Provides housing advocacy by offering information and advocacy on affordable and/or subsidized housing, rental listings, accessibility, home renovations, and home ownership.* Offers peer support groups and services for persons with disabilities.* Provides referrals for equipment loan.* Provides education, assistance to and advocacy for disabled persons wishing to vote.* Provides independent living skills to assist with daily living activities, such as; money and medication management, nutrition, legal rights, socialization, and mobility.* Provides community outreach and education through workshops, classes and other activities to promote awareness of needs of persons with disabilities, and understanding of independent living.

* Provides community outreach and education to help people overcome barriers to transportation.

* Provides transportation information and referral, troubleshooting transportation needs, trip planning.

* 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.

* 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.

* Provides education programs and information about area resources including support groups and wellness programs.

* Provides support and information services for Sickle Cell patients along with their families and friends, usually in partnership with local community-based 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.

Provides intensive outreach and referrals to services and support networking to lessen feelings of isolation and to enable seniors 60 years of age and older to experience their highest degree of independence. Services provided by visiting seniors in their homes, helping them fill out forms such as HEAP Medicare, SNAP, SSI, etc., and locating services within the community.

*Provides information, assistance, referral and support for individuals with issues relating to housing. Services include:

• Finding appropriate housing including providing listings of rental units
• Maintaining housing including assistance accessing home improvement programs
• Assistance completing subsidized housing applications
• Accessing rent assistance programs
• Eviction and foreclosure prevention (Does not provide legal advice)
• Locate emergency housing
• Understanding fair housing and residents rights
• Workshops on housing issues
• Enroll in home buying programs

Housing navigation assistance for Tompkins County residents. Assistance with the following:Eviction preventionThe process of accessing rental, legal, financial, and other resourcesEviction court attendance and tenant supportNavigating tenant and landlord issuesOutreach to affordable housing developments and other community locations

* 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.

Provides health services to individuals who are currently incarcerated. Services include outreach, education, and testing to prevent the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C, and STIs, and assists individuals living with HIV and Hepatitis to develop a care plan once they're discharged back to the community.

* 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.

Provides a mobile van for mammogram testing, breast health education, clinical breast exams and BSE instruction. Van available seven days a week. Call for more information.

Free educational programs are available for schools, nursing homes, health care agencies, social clubs and any other organization that would like to be educated on the topic of epilepsy, seizure awareness, and first aid. Free seminars on a variety of epilepsy related subjects are conducted on a monthly basis for individuals with epilepsy and their family members, caretakers and social workers or any other interested parties. Training hours are available for Medicaid Service Coordinators and CEUs for Nurses. Information and referral services are available to individuals with epilepsy.

Offers free education programs both in-person and virtually via an easy-to-use online meeting system. Educational programs provide information on topics including the signs of Alzheimer’s disease, diagnosis, communication, living with Alzheimer’s and caregiving techniques. For a list of current programs, please visit: https://www.alz.org/longisland/helping_you/education

Provides an emergency food closet, church services for the disabled, 12-step recovery programs, and AA meetings. Call for more information.

Provides refuge for individuals struggling with substance abuse and alcohol dependency. Teen Challenge helps build mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically and spiritually health people in a religious environment. Provides an Outreach Program, Residential Program, and a Ladies' Residence Crisis Center. 1200 centers worldwide.

An online resource guide and information service for persons formerly incarcerated, those working through probation or parole, and others similarly in need.

Veterans Benefits Counselor on staff to assist veterans and their families file claims for veterans' benefits. In addition, offers veterans generous discounts at most town park facilities and on recreational programs; a real property tax exemption program and offers free pet adoptions for veterans who wish to adopt a companion from the town's Animal Shelter. Additional services include: Department of Veteran Affairs Claims Assistance and Information Dependents Education Assistance Post-9/11 GI Bill Montgomery GI Bill Veterans' Educational Assistance Program (VEAP) Survivor and Widow/Widower Benefits Vocational Rehabilitation Aid and Attendance Claims and Information Service-Connected Compensation Non-Service Connected Pension

Provides information, referral and outreach services for seniors in the county, for services, support and resources that are available for their needs.

Outreach to undeserved communities.

Identifies unserved and underserved children and adults and connects them with generic and specialized services. Bilingual staff is available to work with Hispanic families.

An outreach program to help improve and maintain personal health and environmental living conditions. The goal of the program is to promote healthy neighborhoods by keeping residents aware of the variety of medical, social and environmental services available to them locally. Outreach staff visit residents, at the residents request, an inspection of their home is also performed to be sure that no environmental health hazards or problems exist. If environmental health hazards or problems do exist, our staff will direct them to the agency best able to help.