Assists landowners and other groups to protect the county's natural resources by providing technical assistance and programs to residents, landowners, and units of government.

Offers natural resources programs and services, including technical assistance to farmers and landowners, training programs, and environmental education programs.

Provides training and education programs to the community through workshops and seminars on human sexuality. Goals include strengthening parent-child communication skills, educating adolescents about sexual decision making and responsibility, and providing prevention education on a broad spectrum of health problems, including AIDS.

Offers breast examinations, training in breast self-examination, and state-of-the-art mammography services and needle localization of suspect masses. Employs services of specially trained surgeons to provide lumpectomies or mastectomies, if needed. Offers radiation therapy. Conducts patient and family support groups. Participates in collection of data concerning possible environmental causes of breast cancer and distributes educational material.

Assists landowners and other groups to protect the county's natural resources by providing technical assistance and programs to residents, landowners, and units of government.

Assists landowners and other groups to protect the county's natural resources by providing technical assistance and programs to residents, landowners, and units of government.

Interactive exhibits highlighting ever-changing history of life on earth including millions of specimens from microfossils to Ice Age giants. conducts, facilitates and communicates findings of paleontological research houses, curates and makes available specimen collections and a research library publishes technical and popular paleontology books and journals promotes earth history and paleontology through public exhibits and educational materials and programs for all levels of schools and students

Participates in federal network to facilitate sharing of information that will help schools gather educational research.

Focuses on the needs of breast cancer patients and families. Its mission is to serve the people of the Town of Islip confronting this disease and to provide education, outreach and support in enhancing their quality of life. Help and services are provided to qualified Town of Islip residents through its Lend a Helping Hand program. Additionally, the coalition provides support and assistance in promoting research into prevention and treatment.

Assists state and local jurisdictions in the monitoring and analysis of gang-related activity and offers strategies for anti-gang programs.

Assists landowners and other groups to protect the county's natural resources by providing technical assistance and programs to residents, landowners, and units of government.

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/crop management, grape and vegetable crop production, farm business management, and forest and wildlife management. Also includes information on home gardening including free or low-cost gardening classes.

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, radon, and other household environmental issues.

Provides a research facility which includes digital collections, historical and genealogical databases, Brentwood High School yearbooks, reference collection for genealogy and local history research, scrapbooks, photographs and artifacts related to Brentwood history. Please call ahead for access to our special collections.

Advances the recognition, evaluation, and treatment of pediatric Multiple Sclerosis through the creation of a multidisciplinary program dedicated to clinical care and scientific research of children and adolescents with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Improves the diagnosis and treatment of MS in the pediatric age group and better defines the emotional, clinical, and neurological complications of the disorder.

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.

Contains a variety of library materials: books, magazines, newspapers and community publications relating to African-American heritage.

Recruits children and adults with varying degrees of autism and their families for various studies in order to advance knowledge and understanding of autism, and therefore create and modify different treatment methods.

Provides information and resources to help farmers and gardeners with plant, vegetable, and fruit production, including information about plant diseases, germination, soil testing and much more.

A multidisciplinary effort that aims to evaluate and provide support to those affected by Long COVID. The University at Buffalo has created a questionnaire to help researchers understand experiences of people who have been infected with COVID-19. The University at Buffalo is trying to learn of the many experiences and health problems that occur after COVID-19 infection in Western New York. The questionnaire gives patients an opportunity to share their story, symptoms and experience with COVID-19 and long COVID. The Long COVID Connection provides those with long COVID access to monthly informational newsletters, additional long COVID research opportunities, educational opportunities, and long COVID opportunities within the WNY community.

Offers university affiliated resource center that brings research and practice together in community settings. RCASD Old Westbury provides evidence-based training and support to families and professionals, and through ongoing research, contributes knowledge to the field of autism spectrum disorders. RCASD Old Westbury provides high quality autism spectrum resources to individuals and families affected by autism, and to school personnel and community providers. RCASD functions with an overarching goal of identifying, disseminating, and assisting in the implementation of practices to build capacity to improve services and outcomes for children and youth with autism spectrum disorders. As a member of partnership of six university-affiliated programs across New York State, the RCASD at Old Westbury is part of a regional model approach demonstrated to be a successful paradigm around the nation for providing services and resources to families and professionals across the state that may not had access to cost-effective services in the past. Call for more detailed information.