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

Provides educational programs on agriculture, horticulture and related topics. Provides assistance with insect, plant disease, weed identification and management crop production recommendations environment and health issues farmland and open space management and preservation. Also interprets research studies and educates populations on the proper safeguards when using chemicals/pesticides.

Offers a full continuum of care to both children and adults, individuals and families in WNY and beyond, having or at risk for genetic disorders. The division offers diagnosis, treatment and prevention of serious genetic disorders and related developmental abnormalities, and hereditary cancer counseling and testing. The Division of Genetics is also the New York State Metabolic Disease Treatment Center for Western New York. CLINIC SITES: 7 North Erie Street Hall Clothier Building Mayville, NY (Serves Cattaraugus & Chautauqua Counties) Cattaraugus County Health Department 1701 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 4010 Olean, NY (Serves Allegany & Cattaraugus Counties)

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.

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

Raises awareness about Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and the PKD Foundation on a local level. In addition to offering support and information, promotes ways to raise funding to advance research and education. Meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7pm in either Nassau County or Suffolk County. Visit website for schedule and location of meetings.

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.

Provides information in various methods to educate local farmers on management of their farms and gardens regarding season extension, marketing locally grown food, and vegetable and fruit production more effectively with an emphasis on environmentally friendly practices. Also provide landscape, grounds and turf management with current practices.

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 full day or 2 day (overnight) whale watch cruises to observe whales in the waters of Coastal New York and New England. Call for dates and more information.

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.

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

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.

An eight-county coalition of diverse stakeholders working to build food secure communities and a thriving healthy regional food system through collaboration.Current programs include:Farm to SchoolFood as Medicine - Produce Prescription ProgramFarm to Early Care and Education

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.

Provides research-based field crop production recommendations and resources to help improve crop production efficiency through increased yields, improved quality, decreased input costs, protected yields, and new technologies.

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 expertise in gardening, livestock, crops, and pest management.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.