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Provides educational programs to the public (schools, churches, civic groups, organizations, work sites) on a variety of health topics such as playground, sun, and traffic safety, poison control, and emergency preparedness.
Offers a six week Healthy Living Workshop for individuals living with, or caring for someone with, a chronic disease.

* Accepts and investigates complaints and consumer fraud reports from individual consumers.

Masks and gloves for large corporations and municipalities doing post-disaster clean up

* Provides disaster assistance which is financial or direct assistance to individuals and families whose property has been damaged or destroyed as a result of a federally-declared disaster, and whose losses are not covered by insurance. * Provides disaster survivor resources. * Offers disaster recovery centers where individuals or families can go to for information about FEMA or other programs. * Offers a service in which individuals who have been denied assistance the ability to appeal the decision. Appeals must be made in writing and sent by mail or fax within 60 days of receiving the letter.

* Coordinates emergency procedures programs to train fire, police, medical and rescue teams.* Created a central point of operations to handle disaster preparedness and civil defense, fires, floods, release of hazardous materials, etc.

Assists local governments, volunteer organizations and private industry through a variety of emergency management programs. These programs include hazard identification, loss prevention and training, operation response to emergencies, technical support, disaster recovery assistance, and in times of an emergency/disaster, will coordinate the response of all State agencies, ensuring the most appropriate resources are dispatched to the impacted area.

Provides assistance and care to families immediately in the event of natural and other disasters including home fires, flood, and power outages due to storms.

If eligible, the SNAP benefit is made available on a card that can be scanned at grocery stores to be used as money to purchase food. Expedited service is available to very low-income families and individuals.Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) are SNAP recipients aged 18-64 who are able to work and don't have a dependent child in their household. They can only receive SNAP benefits for a limited time (3 months in a 36-month period) unless they meet certain work requirements or have an exemption. These work requirements generally involve working or participating in a work program for at least 20 hours per week (80 hours per month). These requirements will not go into effect until FebruaryThere have been a lot of "skimming" problems with EBT cards - it is recommended that people lock their cards if they are not using them and unlock when they go to use them.Below is the link to the EBT Skimming Scam - there is a way to lock EBT cards and this link lets clients know how to do it.EBT Scam Alert | OTDA

* Provides preparedness education programs for individuals, families or groups. Programs include smoke alarm installations including strobe light alarms and bed shakers, NYS citizen preparedness training, prepare with Pedro youth program.

Volunteers needed for toy shop, soup kitchen, and bell ringers at Christmas time.

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.

Coordinates emergency preparedness and response activities for Broome County Health Dept. Community presentations on emerging public health threats (e.g. bioterrorism, pandemic, influenza, etc) available. Oversees Medical Reserve Corps Program.

* Provides information on how individuals might be able to get help from U.S. Government before, during and after a disaster.

Provides food assistance to low-income households with food loss or damage caused by a natural disaster.

* Provides leadership, coordination, and support to prevent, protect against, prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate man-made and natural disasters and other emergencies.

* Provides information on severe weather warnings, significant highway closures, hazardous materials spills, and many other emergency conditions. Additionally, individuals will find information regarding response actions being taken by local and state agencies and protective actions that should be taken to protect individuals, their family and property.

24/7/365 crisis counseling hotline for those experiencing emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster.

* Provides crisis counseling for those who are in emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster. * Offers information on how to recognize distress and its effects on individuals and families and provides tips for healthy coping.* Provides disaster-specific resources and referral information.

Responsible for planning and putting in place programs to respond quickly and effective to threats endangering the health of the public and citizens of Jefferson County. Threats include natural disasters, biological/chemical attacks or emerging diseases.

* Provides 24-hour access to emergency communications for local families and service members.* Provides access to emergency financial support to military families that require assistance with basic needs.

Provides useful, high quality, comprehensive, readily available and accessible travel information, for multiple modes of transportation, in a timely manner to its customers.The 511 service provides information on incidents, status, modal availability, travel speed and time, roadway conditions, congestion, work zones, weather, planned event, and tourism.