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* Offers volunteer opportunities for individuals that include volunteering for nursing homes, food banks, food pantries, nutrition education, VITA tax services, thrift stores, medical transportation, bill payer, stay young strong bones leader and falls prevention.

Provides educational workshops concerning disaster preparedness for people of all age groups. Provides free smoke alarms for families.

Provides educational workshops concerning disaster preparedness for people of all age groups. Provides free smoke alarms for families.

Provides educational workshops concerning disaster preparedness for people of all age groups. Provides free smoke alarms for families.

* Provides poison emergency telephone management, poison information resources for the Upstate New York area.

Offers practical and comprehensive information to help you navigate the program according to your own situation. The tool clarifies eligibility and enrollment requirements and provides answers to questions on Medicare’s plan options, coverage, and costs in an easy-to-understand manner.

Offers seminars to educate the community on various issues, such as fire or crime prevention, recycling, housing safety, health care information and more. Also inform residents about current issues or problems through fliers, church bulletins, newspaper and local events.

Offers Community Outreach/Injury Prevention Programs. Sample programs include: Concussion/TBI management for student athlete/parent/coach/school faculty sports safety information sessions; Preventing Falls in Older Adults; Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention; Stepping On, Trauma Talk and Stop the Bleed. Programs can be tailored to meet the needs of your group or organization. Please contact us directly to schedule one of the above programs or discuss additional programs that will fit your need. For more information, please contact our Injury Prevention Outreach Coordinator.

Conducts investigations of lead poisoning in children. Because lead poisoning is serious, New York State requires Health Care Providers to test all children for blood lead levels at ages 1 and 2, and up to age 6 based on risk assessment. Contact the Suffolk County Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to find out about home safety tools and recalls on items and toys, especially if your home was built before 1978. Offers community outreach and education about lead poisoning and prevention to health providers and various homes and organizations. Call for all services offered.

Serves as a liaison for and facilitator of emergency response training. Provides emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery efforts during an emergency also has listings of hazardous materials. Assigns house numbers so residents can better be located in an emergency.

Serves as a liaison for and facilitator of emergency response training. Provides emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery efforts during an emergency also has listings of hazardous materials. Assigns house numbers so residents can better be located in an emergency.

Serves as a liaison for and facilitator of emergency response training. Provides emergency response information both during an emergency as well as planning, mitigation and recovery from disasters. Administers various federal and state grants in the areas of emergency response.

Provides 5 steps for keeping older family members comfortable and safe, in their home or yours.

Offers programs to help sustain agriculture including information and support where possible in managing pests, pollution prevention, waste and water management, animal husbandry including dairy and livestock production, beekeeping, field, grape and vegetable crop production, farm business management, and forest and wildlife management. Also provides information on water quality, recycling, household hazardous waste, radon, lead and other household environmental issues.

Provides educational materials and in-service programs for health care professionals and the general public with the aim of educating them on preventing accidental poisonings.

Offers programs to help sustain agriculture including information and support where possible in managing pests, pollution prevention, waste and water management, animal husbandry including dairy and livestock production, beekeeping, field, grape and vegetable crop production, farm business management, and forest and wildlife management.

Serves as a liaison for and facilitator of emergency response training. Provides emergency response information both during an emergency as well as planning, mitigation and recovery from disasters. Administers various federal and state grants in the areas of emergency response.

Helps individuals understand that the key to qualifying for some paid services is whether your loved one is ‘homebound’.

The County Emergency Management Office coordinates all planning, preparedness, response and recovery efforts in the case of an emergency or disaster. They also administer various federal and state grants in the areas of emergency response.

Provides four fall prevention programs: Growing Stronger a strength training exercise program, A Matter of Balance classes that help reduce the fear of falling and increase activity levels of older adults, Walk with Ease will help increase physical activity and reduce pain and improve overall health, Tai Chi is an exercise that improves health and wellness through movement control and weight transference. Also offers Home Safety Assessment to identify fall risks in the home.

Provides educational workshops concerning disaster preparedness for people of all age groups. Provides free smoke alarms for families.

* Administers 55 poison control centers in the US that provide professional advice by toxicology specialists. All poison centers can be reached by calling the same number.

Regulates and enforces public health and environmental matters in Tioga County Services Include: Child Passenger Safety (Car Seat) Program Children With Special Healthcare Needs Early Intervention Program Child Find Immunizations Lead Poisoning Prevention Dental Services Communicable Disease Permits, Inspections and Enforcements Substance Use ServicesCooling Centers

Provides educational workshops concerning disaster preparedness for people of all age groups. Provides free smoke alarms for families.