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Provides a full complement of services to adults ages 55 and over. Daytime programming includes breakfast, lunch, take-home food, exercise, field trips, transportation services, health and wellness information, assistance with senior benefits/issues, recreation and cultural activities, technology classes, workshops, and referral services. Also offers an emergency food pantry, open to residents living in zip code 14204. All services are operated and managed by seniors.

Offers a range of vocational rehabilitation services that assist clients with mental illness to select, obtain, and maintain preferred competitive employment positions in the community. Programs include: - Supported Employment: Assistance with selecting, obtaining, and maintaining a competitive job with on-the-job and off-the-job support. - Rapid Employment/Job Placement: Assistance with finding a competitive job in the community. - Ticket to Work (TTW): Very flexible employment services designed to meet individual employment needs. Allows clients to choose from a range of services listed in other programs. Typically individuals in the Ticket to Work program have a work history and desire to work approximately 25+ hours/week with the goal to eventually be off of entitlement benefits (SSI/SSDI). - Peer Specialist Program at Leroy Manor: Designed to provide outreach and peer support to individuals with mental health conditions in a residential setting. Other services include Job Search, Placement, and Support, Resume and Cover Letter Development, Interview Preparation and Practice, Skills Development, Work Readiness Classes, and Benefits Advisement. Also provides Peer Bridger support services for individuals who are coming out of Rochester Psychiatric Center or other Article 28 hospitals as well as individuals diagnosed with a mental health condition that are residing in the community. These services help individuals link to and engage with needed resources/supports. Peer Bridger services are unique in that they are one-on-one services meeting with a peer support professional to work on goal setting, budgeting, accessing community supports, and other services/information. ##REENTRY##

This partnership provides a paralegal to help identify appropriate legal assistance, provide education on legal resources, and provide referral and intake for legal services agencies in WNY. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Information, referral, advocacy, insurance counseling, and general assistance for citizens 60 years old and older.

Assistance with coordination of care for seniors who live in their own homes, as well as their families. Assistance with linking appropriate resources and determining eligibility for SSI, Medicaid, Lifeline, Food Stamps, and telephone discounts. Assistance with paperwork for entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Insurance counseling etc. Education and Counseling relating to Medicare and Medicare related products. Transportation to medical appointments for an hourly fee plus mileage. Assistance with selecting alternative living arrangements, with the goals of the older adult in mind.

Provides screening for benefits programs including Food Stamps/SNAP, HEAP, Medicare Savings Programs, and Medicaid. As appropriate, provides referrals to agencies such as the Social Security Administration, Department of Social Services, and Veterans Service Agency.

Offers legal counseling, information, and assistance with such concerns as Health Care Proxy, wills, guardianship, power of attorney, living wills and trusts, consumer fraud, contractual disputes, tenant-landlord disputes, home ownership questions, neighbor disputes, Social Security questions, Medicare and Medicaid related problems, SSI application, and eligibility questions.

Assists senior citizens with problems related to housing, landlord-tenant relations, transportation, benefits, taxes, etc.

Provides seniors with assistance with questions of social security, medical information, or other benefits-related issues. Also offers information of resources in the community for specific needs.

Provides mobile services to low and moderate income residents, residing in Northeast Dutchess, and helps them deal with one-time crisis or ongoing issues. Services include food and health services, medical prescriptions, heating assistance, emergency financial aid and more.

Provides flood damage funding through community agencies, for income qualified flood victims whose homes or businesses were completely destroyed or suffered major damage. Grants are made available through local organizations that develop affordable housing, assist in funding housing rehabilitation, or small business revitalization activities. Call or check website for these agencies.

Starting with the individual's strengths and interests and emphasizing personal choice, The Arc Otsego offers comprehensive network of community-based programs and services that encourage individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Assisst with medicaid service coordination, obtaining respite services, skill training assistance, environmental modifications, adaptive technologies and guardianship.

Program offers assistance, information, education and referral about benefits, housing, nursing home advocacy and diversion to avoid moving into a nursing home, respite services for care givers, consumer-directed personal services, traumatic brain injury services, and a personal care bank for toiletries and supplies for families in need.

Provides flood damage funding through community agencies, for income qualified flood victims whose homes or businesses were completely destroyed or suffered major damage. Grants are made available through local organizations that develop affordable housing, assist in funding housing rehabilitation, or small business revitalization activities. Call or check website for these agencies.

Assists in locating housing, linking people to public assistance, rental subsidies and financial assistance, advocating with landlords, and assisting in conflict resolution.

Provides a service, in collaboration with 2 other agencies (My Sisters' Place and Westchester Hispanic Coalition) to offer free legal services for poverty level residents or those who are victims of domestic violence for consumer disputes, housing, education, benefits, domestic violence, orders of protection, custody, child support, family law, including citizenship applications, work authorizations or other immigration issues.

Provides a service, in collaboration with 2 other agencies (My Sisters' Place and Westchester Hispanic Coalition) to offer free legal services for poverty level residents or those who are victims of domestic violence for consumer disputes, housing, education, benefits, domestic violence, orders of protection, custody, child support, family law, including citizenship applications, work authorizations or other immigration issues.

Provides prescreening, assistance filling out applications, and assistance obtaining necessary documentation for food stamp benefits.

Offers general legal aid to people 200 percent below the poverty income guidelines.

A national program funded by the Social Security administration to provide guidance to individuals with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits.

Westchester’s Kinship Unit helps grandparents, relatives, or non-biological parents raising children navigate civil legal issues. These include, but are not limited to custody, guardianship, housing, consumer debt, public benefits, education, and advance planning. Assisting Kinship Families with civil legal issues ensures stability for children being raised by non-biological parents.

Provides a service, in collaboration with 2 other agencies (My Sisters' Place and Westchester Hispanic Coalition) to offer free legal services for poverty level residents or those who are victims of domestic violence for consumer disputes, housing, education, benefits, domestic violence, orders of protection, custody, child support, family law, including citizenship applications, work authorizations or other immigration issues.

A not-for-profit public interest firm providing free legal services to low-income individuals and families in Western New York. NLS aims to create the greatest access to the justice system for low-income individuals and those living with disabilities to pursue goals that will increase both the stability and the quality of their lives. Offers services in the following areas: - Housing (evictions, unsafe conditions, housing choice vouchers, discrimination, landlord/tenant concerns) - Family (DV, family offense petitions, custody, visitation, divorce, child and spousal support, paternity) - Public Benefits (temporary assistance, SNAP, Medicaid, utility shutoffs, emergency assistance, fair hearings, overpayments) - Medical-Legal Partnership (temporary assistance, SNAP, wills, SSI, Veteran services) - Disability (health insurance coverage issues, denial of services and equipment, SSI, SSDI, benefits advisement, overpayments, Medicaid/Medicare) - Student Loan/Debt Counseling - Health Insurance Navigators (New York State of Health) ##RENTRY##

An Office of Mental Health (OMH) funded Recovery Center offering services for adults with mental health conditions. Services include employment support, benefits advisement, parenting classes and support, financial literacy development, educational services, volunteer opportunities, meals, and some social activities. Individualized, same day services are available. Certified Benefits Advisors on staff. Certified Employment Network offers Ticket to Work services for SSI/SSDI beneficiaries. ##REENTRY##