Provides pre-employment training, job training that leads to certifications and licenses, and employment opportunities. Programs include Ready/Set/Work, Greyston Rangers (employment in Yonkers beautif
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Comprehensive service organization: Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse Services, Housing Assistance, Vocational Assistance Program, Early Childhood Programs Servicios de Salud Mental, Asisten
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Therapeutic living atmosphere, counseling, AA meetings, educational and social recreational activities, 10 beds, men only. Referral to OPD tx.
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Frequently asked questions about viral Hepatitis C, including basic information, how it is spread, pregnancy and breast feeding, and treatment.
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HEAP Regular Benefit
The HEAP Regular Benefit Component assists low-income New Yorkers with the cost of heating their homes. The Regular Benefit Component is currently closed.
HEAP Emergency Benefit
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Services include a soup kitchen, food pantry, counseling for the homeless in cooperation with the Oasis Shelter, and transitional housing for LGBT youth. A full list of these New Rochelle based servic
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Hope’s Door seeks to end domestic violence and to empower victims to achieve safety, independence, and healing from the trauma of abuse.
24-HOUR HOTLINE 888.438.8700
The Hope’s Door hotline is the
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Hour Children provides practical, comprehensive services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their families.
Community-based programs include: transitional and permanent supportive hou
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Offers medical and mental health services, as well as out-patient medication assisted treatment for substance abuse.
Locations, phone numbers and web links for each community location are below.
Peeks
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From the website:
The agency incorporated in 1986 using the business name AIDS-Related Community Services, Inc. and was widely known as “ARCS” for much of its history. ARCS pioneered HIV preventio
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Provides several housing programs focused on people recovering from major mental illness:
Congregate Care.
Supervised residences in two locations offer housing for men and women (18 years of age and a
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IFCA Housing Network is a not for profit 501 (c) (3) agency in Ossining, New York.
We are a Neighborhood Preservation Company and a Community Housing
Development Organization. We rent affordable
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This co-ed drop-in shelter for adults only, is run by Caring for the Homeless of Peekskill (CHOP).
Open all year.
Accessible by Bee-Line bus route # 14,15,16,17
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JobSTAR is a collaboration between Westchester Community College and the Westchester County Department of Social Services, since 1990, and has been providing educational training, case management, job
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Law Help is a good starting point for legal information specifically of interest to people living on low incomes in all states. The site provides LiveChat.
A Spanish version of the website is at:
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Referral service listens to your problem and refers you to a lawyer. First half-hour interview may solve your problem. If more legal work
is needed, you can arrange for it at a cost agreed upon.
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Legal Action Center provides free legal services to ex-offenders, recovering alcoholics and substance users. It will help you obtain your rap sheet (arrest and conviction record) and provide informa
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Provides free legal representation to individuals who cannot afford a private attorney for criminal felony cases. Social work assistance if attorney approves.
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The History and Social Science Department of the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan Library (455 Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Fifth Floor, Manhattan 10016) has a collection of legal referen
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Committed to providing support, advocacy and legal representation to low income individuals in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties. Services for housing, elder law, disabilities, public benefits
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Alcohol and substance abuse treatment (including suboxone, methadone maintenance), holistic approach to recovery; psychiatric services, vocational and educational services.
Generations is a treatmen
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Since 1985, the Lifeline program has provided a discount on phone service for qualifying low-income consumers to ensure that all Americans have the opportunities and security that phone service brings
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12 week community-based stabilization program run by those formerly incarcerated who have successfully transitioned back into the community.
Mentoring as well as education and job supports.
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Provides food, shelters (for men and for women), housing services (including for the mentally ill and disabled), youth services, and services for the elderly.
Shelters include:
Open Arms Men’s S
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Literacy Solutions NY Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing student-centered English literacy services and acting as a resource for the advancement of literacy.
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There is also a 24-hour hot line for victims of domestic violence who want to speak to a domestic violence counselor for information and referral:
English 1-800-942-6906; Spanish 1-800-942-6908.
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The Division of Human Rights ensures equal opportunity in employment, housing, public accommodation, education and credit. The Division enforces the Human Rights Law, seeking to: promote human rights
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Taken from the website:
The Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives (DPCA) funds and oversees a variety of pretrial services and correctional alternative programs throughout New York State
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Mental health problems/diagnosis, treatment, support, rehabilitation, mentoring, housing for adults with mental illness, and employment services.
They offer support groups, individual therapy, and g
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Subway, bus and commuter train services connect the five boroughs of New York City to Westchester County.
Fares for the Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven Lines vary by distance and time (peak or off-peak)
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Peer support line 24/7 (1-800-643-7462)
Peer support to formerly incarcerated people in their return to the community; advocacy and resource support; mutuality and trauma informed.
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If you are or have been incarcerated, you may request to have your child support payments modified. However, there is no guarantee that your request will be granted.
A. The Law for Modifying Payments
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Provides quality HIV and Primary Care to a minority population that’s infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
MEDICAL CASE MANAGEMENT
HOUSING
Rent Subsidies
NUTRITION
Food Pantries
Nutritionists
ENTITLEM
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MVUT is a member of Tenants and Neighbors, a statewide grassroots organization that harnesses tenant power to preserve at-risk affordable housing and strengthen tenants’ rights in New York.
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My Benefits Checkup
This website is a prescreening tool for people who live in New York State to find out if they might be able to receive:
Help with buying food
Temporary Assistance (TA)
Special tax
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My Sister’s Place offers a 24 hour hotline 800 298 SAFE, as well as the services listed below:
Shelter, providing a safe refuge in crisis for women and children who are fleeing an abusive partn
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Groups for recovering addicts that meet regularly in Mt.
Vernon, Yonkers, White Plains, Tarrytown, Port Chester, Peekskill, Yorktown Heights, New Rochelle, Briarcliff Manor, Katonah, Ossining, and oth
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NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illne
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Established by the Legal Action Center in 2001, the National Helping Individuals with criminal records Re-enter through Employment (H.I.R.E.) Network is both a national clearinghouse for informati
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If you are a veteran, you should have a copy of your DD214, “Report of Separation”. This can be used as a form of identification and may assist you in receiving benefits from the Veteran’s Adm
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NRCCFI began as the Family and Corrections Network (FCN), founded by Jim Mustin in 1983 as the first national organization in the United States focused on families of the incarcerated. In 2006, the Fe
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From the web site:
“Neighbors Link is a multifaceted community center offering adult education in language and employment skills; a Family Center for Family and Parenting Programs to strengthen
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NCC provides services within the Westchester County jail and in local communities. Services include peer support as well family mediation assisted by video conferencing. NCC was a recent winner of
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Allows you to download free of charge a large number of pamphlets of
interest to consumers. Publications available at: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/consumers/get-tips.page
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The New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years. Founded in 1895, NYPL is the nation’s largest
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You can call a confidential domestic violence hotline for crisis help, safety planning and emotional support, access to advocates in 170 languages through interpreter services, or help finding resou
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