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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 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 .

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The mission of Charles Evans Center is to improve the health and quality of life in underserved populations including those with autism and developmental disabilities.

Conduct education, outreach, engagement, referral, enrollment and follow-up activities that will increase access to high-quality HIV health care.

ACS provides emotional support, education on benefits and advocacy on issues facing surviving family members.

Provides one of the most vital units throughout the Sheriff’s office. Throughout the year, Community Relations Unit visits each Suffolk County School District as well as multiple clubs and various organizations. Its main goal is to bridge the gap between Law Enforcement and the members of the Community. CRU is responsible for implementing community outreach and school-based programs, organizing events, and promoting the Sheriff’s mission. The unit offers an array of Community and School-based programs free of charge for all Suffolk County schools, businesses, organizations, non-profits and agencies. Sample programs include: Youth Enlightenment Seminar (YES) Tours; At-risk Youth Jail Tour; Sandy Hook Promise: Say Something: Sandy Hook Promise Start With Hello; College Internship Program; Explorers Program; Gang Resistance & Education (GREAT) Program; STOPPED ("Drunk Buggies") Program; McGruff the Crime Dog; Drug and Vaping Awareness Programs; School & Building Vulnerability Assessments; CRASE (Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event) Presentation; Stop the Bleed; Operation Safe Child ID Cards; Senior Medical ID Card; Pet ID Cards; Project Lifesaver; Test, Don't Guess Drug & Alcohol Test Kits; Yellow Dot Program and Shed the Meds. Call for more detailed information.

Officers assist parents with possessing up-to-date photographs with detailed information about their child which can greatly assist law enforcement when responding to a disappearance. These cards contain the child’s full name, date of birth, gender, height, weight, hair color, eye color, and more. The card is made in less than ten minutes and can be carried in the parent’s wallet or pocketbook. Operation Safe Child ID Cards are offered by the Sheriff’s Office free of charge at community events, libraries, and firehouses across Suffolk County. To arrange for Operation Safe Child ID cards to be offered at your community event, please contact the Community Relations Office.

An outreach program that focuses on the Latina community, and to help those who are victims of domestic violence to get the help and support they need, including follow-up services.

Reaches out to individuals with mental illness and their families who are not receiving treatment or are struggling to remain in treatment programs. Provides education about psychiatric disorders to the family and significant others, including support and to understand the mental health system within the county.

Offers public awareness and education on AIDS/HIV through outreach programs, printed materials and workshops.

Provides outreach and education about alcohol and drug addiction to at risk populations, community groups, associations, organizations, etc.

Provides outreach and assistance to people in need of food, entitlement programs, information, and referrals. The van visits user friendly locations, libraries, homeless enclaves, parks, community events, and shopping center parking lots. Includes an on board food pantry with basic food staples.