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Provides community outreach centers throughout the county to meets the needs of individuals and families in need. Each center provides basic needs services along with benefits assistance. Services include food pantries, emergency housing assistance, family services to promote self-reliance and prevent future crisis. HEAP application assistance. Coordinates Medical Transportation.

Provides a social program organized by active seniors to visit home bound elderly neighbors, provide companionship, bring gifts at holiday times, or just have coffee and conversation.

Offers various health related educational and wellness programs including blood pressure screening, and diabetes and stroke support groups. Also includes links to food resources, providing information about available programs to supplement food budgets including information about WIC, food pantries, and the SNAP program.

Non religious Religion - Believe Everyone has Value.

Offers Long Island students in grades 4-8, who are in need of positive role models, supervised one-to-one and group mentoring relationships. Weekly one hour meetings allow time for mentors and students to interact, collaborate and socialize .

Provides education and public awareness to the community about domestic violence, through community speakers, interviews, conducting workshops, sending letters, legislative lobbying, etc.

Offers a diverse range of community services for people suffering from hunger or food insecurity. It provides emergency food, clothing, personal care items and household items, including those for pets. Outreach specialists are available for employment searches, as well. Veteran's services on Tuesdays; ESL classes and other support services. Call for more information.

Provides a multi-cultural outreach program designed to increase awareness about service and support available to families with individuals diagnosed with developmental disabilities. Geared toward people whose risk factors are increased as a result of unsafe or unhealthy environments, growth deficiency and nutritional problems, parental substance abuse, low birth weight, central nervous system insult or abnormality, and genetic disorders.

A volunteer movement to promote awareness within communities of the benefits of heart and lung surgical and medical procedures offered at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, N.J. Newsletter, Educational Material, Agency Brochure.

Provides benefits advisement, peer counseling, housing referral,advocacy, independent living skills, transportation, equipment loans, consumer directed personal assistance program (CDPAP), Hispanic outreach, and aging in place services to people with disabilities and the elderly.

Offers various programs designed to educate and increase public awareness on the acceptance of children and adults with disabilities. Programs include: Speakers Resource Center, UCPN Repertory Company, Kids on the Block, and Head Injury. Brochures available, call for information. Offers publications including Center Square, the agency newsletter, the Annual Report and brochures describing a wide range of disabilities, including cerebral palsy. The Library of instructional videotapes on such subjects as evaluating consumers for communication devices and feeding, dressing and first aid techniques related to persons with disabilities is available. The Speakers Bureau provides speakers familiar with a wide range of special needs and services for adults and children with disabilities.

This program provides public awareness, identification of need, and development of a community response to eating disorders in Orange County.

Operates one of Long Islands largest non-commercial, free-form radio station. Tune in any time and you'll hear sounds ranging from interviews, commentary, jazz, pop, punk, metal, electronic, noise, funk, folk, blues, reggae, polka, world music, live music, spontaneous mixes and groovy combustion. Our signal can be heard at 90.1 FM on most of Long Island, and in Southern Connecticut, parts of NYC (Brooklyn and Queens), and Westchester County. We are also simulcasting on 107.3 to reach Stony Brook University campus. It can be heard over the Internet, by using the links at the top of any pages on the WUSB website. We are licensed by the FCC to Stony Brook University as a 3,600 watt non-commercial station located on the campus of Stony Brook University. We have served the campus and Long Island listening communities with a diverse broadcast mix of music, news, public affairs, drama and sports programming. Our 24/7 schedule is made possible by a volunteer staff efforts of over 160 Stony Brook students, faculty, staff, alumni and community residents. Behind-the-scenes as well as on-air work, combined with a variety of nationally syndicated radio programs integrated into the schedule, creates the 168 hours per week of innovative and high-quality programming. Also offers Stony Brook Seawolves sports broadcasts. Daily program information can be obtained by calling (631)632-WUSB. Call for more detailed information.

NOEP Services provide assistance with completing the Food Stamp application and in facilitating the process.

Shares information and encourages high school students, in various ways, to continue their education by either going to college or a technical school.

Offers various programs designed to educate and increase public awareness on the acceptance of children and adults with disabilities. Programs include: Speakers Resource Center, UCPN Repertory Company, Kids on the Block, and Head Injury. Brochures available, call for information. Offers publications including Center Square, the agency newsletter, the Annual Report and brochures describing a wide range of disabilities, including cerebral palsy. The Library of instructional videotapes on such subjects as evaluating consumers for communication devices and feeding, dressing and first aid techniques related to persons with disabilities is available. The Speakers Bureau provides speakers familiar with a wide range of special needs and services for adults and children with disabilities.

Promotes and protects the health of all who live, work, and play in Nassau County. The mission is accomplished through direct services and community partnerships in the following areas: Development and maintenance of individual and community preparedness for public health hazards and events; Investigation, prevention, and control of communicable diseases; Prevention of environmental health hazards through assessment, regulation, and remediation; Promotion of healthy lifestyles through outreach and education and Provision for evaluation and services to individuals, children, and families that have developmental delays and concerns. Call for detailed information.

Hosts annual conferences on trauma and children, publishes literature to inform professionals and the public, provides training and consultation in a host of related areas to similar organizations. The service is provided by the Sanctuary Institute, a training and consultation service, an evidence-based template for system change, based on the active creation and maintenance of a nonviolent, democratic therapeutic community in which staff and clients are empowered as key decision-makers to build a socially responsive, emotionally intelligent community that fosters growth and change.

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.

Provides information, support groups, research, and advocacy on Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer.

Provides a multi-cultural outreach program designed to increase awareness about service and support available to families with individuals diagnosed with developmental disabilities. Geared toward people whose risk factors are increased as a result of unsafe or unhealthy environments, growth deficiency and nutritional problems, parental substance abuse, low birth weight, central nervous system insult or abnormality, and genetic disorders.

Provides education and support to persons suffering with gluten intolerances, celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis and gluten sensitivities. Also supports doctor education, medical research and community awareness to make a gluten free diet easier to follow and help Celiacs to live healthy lives. Meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month (except Jan, Feb, Jul & Aug) at 7:30pm, at Hibernian Hall, 27 Locust Avenue, Babylon, NY 11702. Call for more information.

Provides low cost, high quality health care, with primary focus on prevention. Services in health care include gynecological exams, birth control, pregnancy testing, screening for breast and cervical cancer, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections for men and women, HIV/AIDS counseling and testing for both men and women, infertility workup, medication abortion up to 9 weeks, emergency contraception, HPV vaccines, LGBT services, men's health services. A Social Worker is onsite. Title X Family Planning Programs (FPEP and FPBP) are available. Counseling is an integral part of Planned Parenthood of Nassau County's patient care.

Offers education and public awareness about child abuse in a variety of methods, including online resources, brochures, and info cards, teaching about issues leading to child abuse and its prevention.

Offers a variety of services for the seniors in the local community who need help with benefit applications, advocacy for different issues, outreach to help seniors who are homebound and need help with various tasks. Also provides assistance to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, such as counseling, advocacy and with school supplies, clothing, and more.