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* Provides supportive mentorships on a one-to-one basis with children and adults receiving mental health treatment. Individual training before matches are made. Ongoing post-match training. Pre-match and post-match support by Volunteer Coordinators. Volunteer-client activities include friendly visits, social and cultural experiences, and special events.* Offers Compeer Calling/E-Buddies. Telephone or e-mail support for referred clients waiting to be matched with volunteers.* Offers volunteer opportunities.

* Offers individual and family support services. Adult, youth, and older adult programs.* Provides emergency services as money is available for the following: Emergency shelter. Clothing vouchers. Temporary financial aid.* Offers a Friendly Visitor program for patients, home/community residents, and inmates.* Offers a Telephone Reassurance Program.* Provides a Summer camp and recreational activities for children, older adults.

A database for information and referrals of local and surrounding agencies that assist to meet the needs of senior citizens.

Provides regular telephone calls from volunteers to homebound seniors and disabled adults to check on their well-being and provide an opportunity to socialize. The program's main purpose is to alleviate some of the loneliness facing those who live alone and help them to remain independent.

Provides following services for people living within boundaries of the parish: advocacy, information and referral, home visitation, telephone reassurance, clothing, emergency food, and limited transportation to medical services. Also brings Communion to the homebound.

Putnam NY Connects promotes personal responsibilities to empower and create opportunities for consumers and their caregivers of all ages, allowing them to make informed choices about their Long Term Care needs that balance cost, access, and quality. Our aim is to help alleviate the frustrations of trying to navigate through a complex and fragmented long term care system.

Your link to long term services and supports in the community; personal care services, health and wellness, behavioral health supports and services, intellectual/developmental disability supports and services. Can provide information, assistance and referrals for anyone who needs it, regardless of age. Can help you find care and support, remain independent, understand your options, find transportation, get answers about Medicare and benefit programs.

Hearts and Hands is a volunteer based non-profit organization that provides free escorted transportation, companionship, and in-home supports for older adults in communities throughout Erie and Eastern Niagara Counties. Our care recipients are often individuals who stopped driving due to age-related medical conditions or for financial reasons. Recipients may also need assistance at home with light yard work and home maintenance, or companionship to renew and refresh their caregiver. Our elderly neighbors are often lonely, isolated, and in need of friendly human interaction. In response to a recent community assessment and a national assessment from AARP, Hearts and Hands has designed our program to address social isolation through all three avenues of service: transportation, household supports, and companionship. Hearts and Hands volunteers may be the only people our care receivers see during a week, and their company is, in and of itself, a bright spot in daily life. Hearts and Hands is a best-efforts program. Services are provided by volunteers who give their time as they have it available. Program Eligibility Who is eligible for the Hearts & Hands service program? Older adults age 60+ Adults with a disability Our service area extends across Erie County and Eastern Niagara County.

Provides emergency assistance to individuals with an urgent need for food, personal care items, medication, or other assistance due to an unforeseen emergency; food vouchers provided. Works with clients on budgeting to prevent future emergencies. Provides group for separated/divorced parents and significant others who want to reduce conflict and effectively parent their children. Provides domestic violence classes for men whose participation is court ordered. These classes provide information on the impact of men's abuse of power on family members; men's violence against women in society and how to end it; the historical, societal and cultural aspects of domestic abuse, oppression, racism, and sexism; and community efforts to stop domestic violence at the local and national level. Also provides friendly phone calls for older adults in Genesee County.

Hearts and Hands is a volunteer based non-profit organization that provides free escorted transportation, companionship, and in-home supports for older adults in communities throughout Erie and Eastern Niagara Counties. Our care recipients are often individuals who stopped driving due to age-related medical conditions or for financial reasons. Recipients may also need assistance at home with light yard work and home maintenance, or companionship to renew and refresh their caregiver. Our elderly neighbors are often lonely, isolated, and in need of friendly human interaction. In response to a recent community assessment and a national assessment from AARP, Hearts and Hands has designed our program to address social isolation through all three avenues of service: transportation, household supports, and companionship. Hearts and Hands volunteers may be the only people our care receivers see during a week, and their company is, in and of itself, a bright spot in daily life. Hearts and Hands is a best-efforts program. Services are provided by volunteers who give their time as they have it available. Program Eligibility Who is eligible for the Hearts & Hands service program? Older adults age 60+ Adults with a disability Our service area extends across Erie County and Eastern Niagara County.

Hearts and Hands is a volunteer based non-profit organization that provides free escorted transportation, companionship, and in-home supports for older adults in communities throughout Erie and Eastern Niagara Counties. Our care recipients are often individuals who stopped driving due to age-related medical conditions or for financial reasons. Recipients may also need assistance at home with light yard work and home maintenance, or companionship to renew and refresh their caregiver. Our elderly neighbors are often lonely, isolated, and in need of friendly human interaction. In response to a recent community assessment and a national assessment from AARP, Hearts and Hands has designed our program to address social isolation through all three avenues of service: transportation, household supports, and companionship. Hearts and Hands volunteers may be the only people our care receivers see during a week, and their company is, in and of itself, a bright spot in daily life. Hearts and Hands is a best-efforts program. Services are provided by volunteers who give their time as they have it available. Program Eligibility Who is eligible for the Hearts & Hands service program? Older adults age 60+ Adults with a disability Our service area extends across Erie County and Eastern Niagara County.

Provides emergency assistance to individuals with an urgent need for food, personal care, medication, or other assistance due to an unforeseen emergency. Provides an educational group for separated/divorced parents and significant others who want to reduce conflict and effectively parent their children. Also provides friendly phone calls for older adults in Orleans County.

* Connects older adults with phone buddies who will call them weekly to check in and talk.

* Initiates matching of adult volunteers to provide a supportive friendship on a one-to-one basis with adults receiving mental health treatment. Individual training provided before matches are made Ongoing, post-match trainings offered Pre-match and post-match support provided by Volunteer Coordinators Volunteer-client activities include friendly visits, social and cultural experiences, and special events* Offers Compeer Calling/E-Buddies. Telephone or e-mail support for referred clients waiting to be matched with volunteers. * Offers volunteer opportunities.

NY Connects provides comprehensive, free information and assistance on long term supports and services to individuals of all ages, incomes, disabilities as well as family, caregivers, professionals and friends and neighbors.

Provides information for individuals looking for long term care resources, services and options within the county, such as home-based services, nursing homes, adult homes, adult day programs, companionship, etc.

Putnam NY Connects promotes personal responsibilities to empower and create opportunities for consumers and their caregivers of all ages, allowing them to make informed choices about their Long Term Care needs that balance cost, access, and quality. Our aim is to help alleviate the frustrations of trying to navigate through a complex and fragmented long term care system.

Brings together people of many faiths to help their neighbors in need. A national program made up of volunteers that shop, drive or just check in on individuals with long-term health needs in order to help them stay in their homes longer.

Provides volunteers to call homebound individuals, both for companionship and reassurance. Also recruits and trains volunteers for this program. Weekly calls lasting 20-30 minutes.

Provides regular personal or telephone contact for older persons who are homebound or live alone.

Provides a daily telephone reassurance program to confirm all is well for seniors living alone or disabled. This program features a computerized telephone system that will make daily calls to subscribers at the same time each day. Please call for more information.

Brings together people of many faiths to help their neighbors in need. A national program made up of volunteers that shop, drive or just check in on individuals with long-term health needs in order to help them stay in their homes longer.

Provides regular personal or telephone contact for older persons who are homebound or live alone.

Provides regular personal or telephone contact for persons who are homebound or live alone.

Provide a single point of entry into the long term care system, giving unbiased, comprehensive information to individuals inquiring about publicly and privately funded long term care options in their communities. Information on a full range of services will be provided to adults and children with disabilities requiring long term care, regardless of their payment source.