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Helps individuals cope with breast cancer through one-on-one peer support.
Certified Peer Staff facilitate access to services, supports, opportunities and help others navigate the community in group and individual settings. Daily activities includes arts and crafts, speakers, and classes in a positive setting. Educational and group support for the community.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Age Peer Networking
Psychiatric Resocialization
Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Patient to Patient Networking
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Age Peer Networking
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.

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Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Age Peer Networking
Special Education Advocacy
Patient to Patient Networking
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Offers FREE, personalized emotional support and information for anyone impacted by breast cancer.
Provides a drop-in center offering programming and activities for young children and their families including peer discussion and support, parenting education, and information and referral.

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Parent to Parent Networking
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Drop In Centers
Children's Play Groups
Information and Referral
* Provides free events, activities, and programs to bring veterans together for peer-to peer support, build relationships to help veterans stay connected, and to integrate into their communities.
Offers trainings and education to families, parent-to-parent support, and advocacy assistance. Provides funding to families for respite, therapeutic recreational activities, summer camps, specialized adaptive equipment, home modifications, and emergency services.

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Accessible Home Construction
Individual Advocacy
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Respite Care Subsidies
Parent Rights Classes
Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education
Caregiver Training
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Family Life Education
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Parenting Skills Classes
Parent Support Groups
Parent to Parent Networking
Offers trained community volunteers an opportunity to provide friendship, support and guidance to an adult or child within the community that has been diagnosed with a mental illness for a few hours every month by participating in activities that both parties enjoy.

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Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
Age Peer Networking
Provides a community-based system of care for families of children with disabilities. Offers both formal and informal services, with an emphasis on self-determination and family control, to help support families with children who have a disability. Offers family engagement activities, peer support, advocacy training, and parenting groups and classes.

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Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Self Advocacy Support
Parent to Parent Networking
Parent Support Groups
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.

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Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Age Peer Networking
Special Education Advocacy
Patient to Patient Networking
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Provides individuals and their families support through recovery with peer-to-peer services, recovery coaching, advocacy, wellness activities, sober events, education, and training opportunities.

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Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Peer to Peer Networking
Advocacy
Families/Friends of Individuals With a Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
Families/Friends of Individuals With an Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Substance Use Disorder Peer Recovery Coach Services
Provides care for children with chronic asthma and allergy problems. Services include: Consultations with Pediatric Pulmonologists and Allergist Immunologists skilled nursing care history and physical exam pulmonary function studies allergy testing laboratory services pharmacy services and an asthma support group.

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Allergy Testing
Allergy Specialty
Pulmonary Disease Specialty
Peer to Peer Networking
Pulmonary Function Screening
Support Groups
Hospital Based Outpatient Services
Hospitals
Allergies
Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Asthma
Provides a free, confidential weekly veterans facilitated support group offering a wide array of support and services/resources.

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Veteran Support Groups
Peer Support Services
Veteran Reintegration Counseling
Peer to Peer Networking
Offers a forum for past and present recipients of mental health services to meet and help organize, design and advocate in various ways to change public policy, systems and legislation for mental health-related causes.

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Mental Health Associations
Peer to Peer Networking
Serves the needs of individuals with autism and their families through advocacy, public awareness, education, and research. Offers sibling and patient support groups. Affiliated with the Autism Society of America.

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Mental Health Related Support Groups
Support Groups
Parent to Parent Networking
Our Peer Support Line offers one-to-one mutual telephone support. During off-hours, you are welcome to leave a message and we will return your call during our offered hours listed above. If your situation is urgent, please call the 24/7 Response Hotline at (631) 751-7500.

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Volunteer Opportunities
Mental Health Crisis Lines
Support Groups
Peer to Peer Networking
Provides support and assists psychosocial programs specifically targeting and identifying the needs and issues faced by children with cancer and their families. Provides educational programs for school personnel and students to increase the understanding of pediatric cancer. Call regarding volunteer opportunities because they are sporatic.

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Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Parent to Parent Networking
Children
Volunteer Opportunities
Cancer
Unites the Fragile X community to enrich lives through educational and emotional support, promotes public and professional awareness, and advance research toward improved treatments and a cure for Fragile X. Call or visit website for additional information.

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Health Education
Fragile X Syndrome
Support Groups
Parent to Parent Networking
Health / Disability Related Support Groups
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.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Friendly Telephoning
Peer to Peer Networking
Offers peer advocates to assist individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities, to establish goals, and increase their independence. Peer counseling includes vocational assistance, budgeting, self-advocacy, interpersonal and independent skills training. Also provides benefits advisement, to help in navigating public assistance and Social Security, along with assistance with the Medicaid Buy-in program, teaching consumers to fill out forms, or helping them to understand work incentive programs.

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General Benefits Assistance
Peer to Peer Networking
Social Security Disability Insurance
Provides counseling for adults with any type of disability, including connecting them with other with the same disability, where ideas, concerns and life experiences can be shared. Also assists with assistive technology information, what devices might be good to increase or enhance independence.

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Health / Disability Related Counseling
Assistive Technology Information
Peer to Peer Networking
Life Skills Education
Provides home and community based services (like planned respite and pre vocational supports) to children who have a serious emotional disturbance (SED) diagnosis.

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Mental Illness / Emotional Disabilities
Mental Health Support Services
Parent to Parent Networking
Families / Friends of Mentally Ill
Support Groups
Respite Care
Parenting / Family Support Groups
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, companionship, etc., regardless of their payment source.

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Peer to Peer Networking
Specialized Information and Referral
Friendly Telephoning
Offers a social and semi-support group for gay men who are parents. Meetings are hosted at members' homes. Call for further information.

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Gay Men
Parenting / Family Support Groups
LGBTQ2+ Parents
Parent to Parent Networking