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A comprehensive child development Head Start/Preschool program designed to serve income eligible children 0-5 years of age including children with disabilities and their families.

Provides evaluations and specially planned instructional services for eligible children ages 3-5 who have a developmental disability that affects their learning.

Therapeutic Summer Programs are provided for youth with DD, ADHD, or Autism entering first grade through age 16. These are 5-week day programs; no overnight care provided. Community Connections: A replication of an evidence-based summer program for children and adolescents (entering first grade through age 16) with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (Asperger's, high-functioning autism, and PDD-NOS) or other disabilities. Provides children with intensive training, experience, and practice in social and emotional skills allowing them to make friends and learn to better connect with peers, siblings, teachers, and parents/caregivers. Although designed to support children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders, a clinical diagnosis is not required to participate as long as the child demonstrates social-communication difficulties. Program targets development of key social competencies using direct instruction, fun and engaging practice exercises, and recreational activities in a summer camp format.

Provides assistance which helps to ensure that parents fulfill their mutual obligation to financially support and provide health care for their children. Included are services for people who want to locate an absent parent; establish paternity; establish a child support order; request that the non-custodial parent provide health insurance for a child in conjunction with a child support order; change the amount of a child support award; dispute a child support award; or enforce payment of child support monies in cases where the supporting parent is delinquent in paying or refuses to pay or make health insurance arrangements altogether. Provides legal assistance for people who want to petition the court to transfer the right to collect wages earned by their ex-spouses to themselves in cases where the ex-spouse is under court order to pay child support and fails to pay as required. Under this arrangement, the amount of the child support check is taken from the delinquent parent's paycheck and sent directly to the parent who has custody of the child.

Services of the P3 Center include:

• Health needs assessments
• Physician referrals for primary care and obstetrics/gynecology, including family planning
• Health insurance and WIC enrollment
• Free pregnancy screening
• Care management, including pregnancy and teen pregnancy
• Pre-and post-partum depression screening
• Breastfeeding support
• Early childhood screening for developmental milestones
• Parenting assistance
• Substance use prevention
• Domestic violence prevention
• Health and wellness education
• Referrals to food pantries, housing assistance, educational programs, child care, and other services

Offers free tax preparation assistance by IRS certified volunteers during tax season, by appointment only. Services provided by AARP.

Residential reintegration program for homeless men in recovery from substance abuse that encourages connections to volunteer, educational, and employment opportunities. Offers counseling, meals, recreation, daily support, and self-help meetings. Program employs client-centered cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavioral therapies, along with motivational interviewing to help residents learn to cope with life experiences without relying on substance use. Utilizes trauma-informed care practices that seek to address each individual's past history or trauma and its effect on their lives.

Provides food for low income households in need; see regular schedule below. Also provides food on additional dates at additional sites during the holiday season as part of the Boxes of Love program; see Boxes of Love schedule here: https://bolbdc.org/bol-food-pantry-sites/ Regular Schedule (Repeating Each Month): FIRST FRIDAY

• Frederick Douglass Community Center, 234 Jefferson Avenue (parking lot), Buffalo, NY 14204 at 4:30pm

SECOND FRIDAY

• Hertel Park Senior Housing, 1631 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216 at 1pm
• Church of the Assumption, 435 Amherst Street (in the parking lot located on Peter Street), Buffalo, NY 14207 at 4:30pm

THIRD FRIDAY

• LaSalle Courts, 110 Blum Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216 at 4pm
• BDC Outreach Center, 437 Masten Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 at 4:30pm

FOURTH FRIDAY

• Arkansas Street, in the empty lot behind McDonald's on West Ferry Street, at 4:30pm

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Provides supportive counseling, crisis intervention, medication clinic, and individual, group, and family treatment.

Food pantry that distributes food while supplies last and provides emergency food distribution. Also distributes produce boxes on a first come, first serve basis once a month. ##REENTRY##

Provides STI screening and treatment, HIV testing and support, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP Services, Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)Services, Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (Doxy-PEP) Services, Vaccinations including for HPV, Hepatitis A & B, and mpox, and free condoms and lube.

Provides comprehensive evaluation and therapy for all ages for speech, language disorders, swallowing and feeding impairments, fluency and voice disorders, oral-motor disorders, cleft palate, and hearing impairment. Leap Into Literacy program works to establish the skills for literacy such as speaking, reading, writing, and viewing during the early childhood years by teaching key skills in an explicit, hierarchical fashion.

Designed to meet the needs of parents/guardians that are raising children with serious emotional disturbances and/or behavioral challenges. Goals are developed and based on the child/families strengths, needs, and desire for the identified support services. Customized Community Services can also be provided in school and mental health settings if there is a contract in place with a funder who has agreed to purchase Customized Services from Hillside. Customized Services may include any of the following, depending upon availability in your area: -Individual skillbuilding (Examples of individual skillbuilding include working on improving anger management, social, independent living, or other important skills; transitioning home from an out-of-home placement; and learning strategies for managing difficult life situations.) -Parenting support and education -Skill-based groups -Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (in some areas) -Mentoring

A federally funded program administered by New York State to assist low income families with their energy needs. Multiple components are available to residents while funding is available. Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) components include Regular and Emergency benefit assistance towards heating and electricity costs, furnace repair, replacement, clean and tune, and cooling assistance. All approved benefits result in a credit on the heating or electric bill, or a delivery of fuel, equaling the benefit amount. Programs run annually until funding is exhausted. The Regular HEAP Benefit is closed. The Emergency HEAP Benefit is closed. The Heating Equipment Repair & Replacement (HERR) Benefit is closed. The Clean & Tune Benefit is closed. Applicants must meet all HEAP eligibility criteria in order to be eligible for the Heating Equipment Clean and Tune benefit. The Cooling Assistance Benefit is open. Applicants must meet all HEAP eligibility criteria and a household member must have a medical need in order to be eligible for the Cooling benefit. All applicants are required to provide medical documentation that their medical condition is exacerbated by extreme heat, unless there is a vulnerable member in their household. This is defined as being over the age of 60 or under the age of 6. For complete details, visit New York State's HEAP web page: https://otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/

Offers use of the Wellness Center (which has weights and cardio equipment), participation in land and water based aerobic classes, use of the track, appointments with trainers, and more.