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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.

Offers assistance, information and pre-screening for potential for SNAP/food stamp eligibility. Staff assists in completing paperwork, copying documents, scheduling telephone interviews, following up with and advocating on behalf of applicants at the local social services department.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

Works with Greyhound Lines Inc to arrange bus ticket home for qualified youth or runaways 12-21 yrs who want to return home.

Promotes fire safety in Warren County. Provides fire investigation, fire prevention programs, hazardous materials incident mitigation, technical training, and public relations for fire departments in Warren County.

• 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.

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.

Promotes fire safety in Montgomery County. Provides fire investigation, fire prevention programs, hazardous materials incident mitigation, technical training, and public relations for fire departments in Montgomery County.

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

Provides technical training and coordination of Emergency Medical Services.

Responsible for developing and implementing emergency management programs and activities and coordinating all aspects of the county's mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities.

Provides volunteer opportunities for events, administrative needs, fundraising, programming support and mentoring. Volunteers assists in a varity of programs, as well as with advertising materials.

When looking for persons who evacuated in a disaster, a website offers information on those persons who chose to register at the shelter.

Provides funding to farms and small businesses who are hardest hit by natural disasters. Funding is for building rehabilitation, repair and replace permanent fixtures and equipment, as well as for inventory and working capital.

Emergency Food delivery available to residents of Tompkins County 1x month- callers can now contact Salvation Army directly for this serviceMulti-program organization with religious and human services components.Annual Thanksgiving Dinner: Doors open 11 am 12 - 2 pm doors close at 2 pmServes 250 people

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.

Offers an appliance grant program for state residents who sustained property damage due to Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. The program will help cover the cost of replacing vital household appliances, such as refrigerators, boilers, hot water/heater tanks, washing machines, dryers, dehumidifiers, and furnaces damaged by flooding. Purchase of appliances and equipment must be for replacement purposes only and were not covered by insurance or FEMA.

Carries out functions of the Attorney General's office in the Southern Tier, such as: protecting consumers against fraud offers help with identity theft cases (including an online identity theft tool kit: https://ag.ny.gov/consumer-frauds-bureau/identity-theft ) safeguarding civil and workers' rightsoverseeing the dissolution, amendments to the certificate of incorporation of charities and sale of all or substantially all of not-for-profit assets, as well as charitable trusts and estates

Provides educational workshops concerning disaster preparedness for people of all age groups. Provides free smoke alarms for families.

Provides a hotline available for fraud reporting, for consumers, insurance, medicaid, landord/tenant issues, etc. Also offers a "Tenants Rights Guide" with information about leases, safety, repairs, and rights available to both tenants and landlords.