Provides a specialized mental wellness and education center for children, teens, and parents. Services offered include outpatient counseling, tutoring and mentoring, support groups, and educational programs. Counseling services include play therapy, sand tray therapy, trauma-informed counseling, parent counseling, parent child interaction therapy, and family therapy. Telehealth available.

Provides training, recruiting, quality assistance, and support for adults interested in becoming a mentor. Offers an online directory where the public can search for mentoring programs.

Offers peer recovery support services called mentoring. Mentors provide wellness and recovery coaching, helping to connect men and women to community-based health and human services and to the recovering community. These services are also available to high risk women, including those who are pregnant, homeless, or victims of violence. Most referrals to this program come from CYF, but anyone with a substance use or co-occurring disorder in need of mentoring is eligible.

Offers short-term mentoring program that connects job-seekers with a volunteer in an industry or job field of interest to the individual seeking employment.

Over three meetings, the mentor helps the mentee to strengthen their interview and job search skills and create a customized career plan while networking and building connections.

Assists churches in starting volunteer health ministry programs that will thrive and serve the congregation; serves as a Resource Center to provide consultation, support and mentoring, ideas and materials for health ministry; provides the Parish Nurse and Health Minister Basic Preparation Course, curriculum endorsed by the Westberg Institute for Faith Community Nursing; Conducts health ministry workshops to educate and train volunteers; promotes faith community nursing as a vital ministry of the church.

Provides a place where youth and families can find needed resources, become involved in support groups, cultural and educational programming, and enjoy a variety of fun activities. Offers an after school program, summer camp, tutoring, field trips, and parenting and coaching for teens and parents.

Provides program designed to re-integrate veterans to college through a three-phased program:

Phase I: participants will complete a ten-week paid research experience, complete a team project, learn 21st century skills in workshops, and prepare to begin classes at a local college. During this time, program participants are offered housing and other family assistance. Participants are also paired with rehabilitation counselors for individual and group counseling sessions to ensure the adequate supports are in place for academic success.

Phase II: participants will continue to refine their academic interests and apply for a formal program at the University of Pittsburgh or an institution of their choice.

Phase III: participants will enroll in a university and prepare to graduate from the ELeVATE program. Participants stay linked to their cohort through study and other support groups. The program encourages past participants to stay linked to the program by serving as a mentor for new ELeVATE participan

Provides one-to-one youth mentoring programs. Professionally screened and trained volunteers provide guidance, mentoring, and friendship to children. Programs help children become more confident, make healthy decisions, and achieve their fullest potential in life.

Provides one-to-one youth mentoring programs. Professionally screened and trained volunteers provide guidance, mentoring, and friendship to children. Programs help children become more confident, make healthy decisions, and achieve their fullest potential in life.

Provides one-to-one youth mentoring programs in which professionally screened and trained volunteers provide guidance, mentoring, and friendship to children. Programs help children become more confident, make healthy decisions, and achieve their fullest potential in life.

Provides one-to-one youth mentoring programs in which professionally screened and trained volunteers provide guidance, mentoring, and friendship to children. Programs help children become more confident, make healthy decisions, and achieve their fullest potential in life.

Establishes one-to-one mentoring relationships between adult volunteers and children in order to provide guidance, mentoring, and friendship.

Provides after-school programming offering tutoring, mentoring, cultural activities, STEM skill-building, safety education, nutritional support, and more. Visit the website for more information on the available programs.

KEYS AmeriCorps members tutor and mentor youth and engage them in service to their communities. Members are placed with local schools, after-school programs, and community-based and faith-based organizations.

In exchange for their service, AmeriCorps members receive a modest living allowance and may be eligible for forbearance on qualified student loans, child care, and health insurance. Upon successful completion they may be eligible for financial assistance for their education.

Offers mentoring program for children and youth with an incarcerated parent or other close relative. In this community-based program, mentors and mentees meet at least four hours per month for a minimum commitment of one year.


Amachi's Ambassador's Program is a specialized youth organizing, advocacy, and leadership development program for high school students (age 14 to 18) impacted by incarceration of a parent or a close loved one.

Provides Latino students with academic, social, and emotional support through mentoring and tutoring programs. Offers personalized support to based on students individual needs.

Offers mentoring programs, based both in the community and in schools, for children and youth.

Encourages any group such as a church, club, or community organization to host a site for mentors and children to meet on a weekly basis.

Pairs expectant or new parents with experienced parent mentors who use text messaging to provide support, information, referrals, and suggestions for activities that promote infant mental health.

This is a mentoring program for youth and teens that offers services to foster caring, competence, and confidence through emotional, social, cultural, and educational support for children between six and sixteen years of age.

Provides a therapeutic group youth mentoring program. Mentors utilize evidence-based curriculum and oversee group activities.

Creating Foundations is a mentoring program modeled after "Safe Families for Children" in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The purpose of this program is to connect youth and young adults who are between the ages of 14-26 and who are aging out of the Pennsylvania foster care system with a mentor or mentor family who will assist them with the transition into adulthood. The goal of making these connections is that they develop into a lifelong support for the young adults in the program.

Offers a volunteer program that matches adult mentors with at-risk youth between the ages of 6 and 18, many of whom reside in single parent households.

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Diakon Youth Services have a range of community based treatment, vocational training, counseling, and mentoring services for at-risk youth.
- Center Point Day Program @ Diakon Wilderness Center
- The Bridge Program
- The Flight Program
- Greenhouse & Native Plant Nursery
- Turning Point Program
- Weekend Alternative Program @ Diakon Wilderness Center
- Youthful Offenders Program
- Outdoor Group Challenges @ Diakon Wilderness Center

Provides community and wilderness based services for at-risk and court-adjudicated youth and young adults

Programs:
Wilderness Challenge, Boiling Springs PA
Adjudicated males 13-18 years
Short-term outdoor mobile program

Center Point Day Treatment, Boiling Springs PA
Referred males and females 11-19 years
Day treatment program

Flight Program
Any male 17-24 years
(Adams, Bucks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Perry, York)
Mentoring and training program for youth aging out of system

WAP (Weekend Alternative Program), Boiling Springs PA
Pre/Post-adjudicated males 12-18 years
10 weekends

GWAP (Weekend Alternative Program), Boiling Springs PA
Pre/Post-adjudicated females 12-18 years
10 weekends

Bridge, Boiling Springs PA
Pre/Post-adjudicated males 11-18 years
150 days

Bridge Prep, Boiling Springs PA
Pre/Post adjudicated males and females 17-18 years
30-45 days

Turning Point, Lancaster PA
Evening Reporting Center for males
Alternative to secure detention

Program helps at-risk youth by providing one-on-one mentoring to evaluate their needs, establishing a network of local support resources, and supporting the youth as they develop the life and employment skills and knowledge to achieve self-sufficiency. A 12 to 18 month youth employment program for 16 to 21 year olds who are motivated to earn a GED or train for a career.

The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North Central PA, offers:Resources/training related to language translation, housing, income benefits, mobility/transportation, education, communication, assistive technology, advocacy, budgeting, household management, mentoring, and socialization/recreation geared toward persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Sign Language Instruction. Assistance with obtaining an Interpreter/Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART). Instruction of the Pennsylvania Driver's Manual. Public awareness/sensitivity training regarding persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Information about Videophones/Video Relay Interpreting Services and resources on how to go about getting a videophone. Assistance with getting equipment via the TDDP such as a TTY, CapTel, amplified telephone, etc. A New Start program through Roads to Freedom, an Assistive Technology reuse/recycle program, may be able to provide donated equipment.

A Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) is a staff person who has used mental health and community services and who is using recovery principles in their own life. A CPS has had to pass an educational program and become certified to provide these services.
CPS services can help in the following areas:
- Mentoring
- Advocacy/ Mediation
- Engagement
- Provide hope
- Teach wellness strategies
- Provide education (e.g. agency services, community supports, recovery principles etc.)
- Skills building
- Link to community supports
- Develop natural supports
- Goal Planning
- Crisis Support
- Emotional support

Provides foster care, community residential rehabilitation services, and respite services designed to provide an opportunity for parent/ guardians and children to have some time apart.

Provides support services for teens, women and men experiencing an unplanned pregnancy with professional staff and trained volunteers. Includes free pregnancy tests, a limited OB ultrasound, medical consultation and options counseling, education on pregnancy, STD's, abortion, and alternatives to abortion, adoption referrals upon request,
pre-natal and parenting education, baby clothes, baby supplies and baby furniture under an Incentive Program,
assistance with finding housing, maternity only, post abortion support groups or individual counseling, referrals for medical care, financial and legal aid, as well as other community resources, fatherhood mentoring program, teaches abstinence and STD education to schools and local youth groups upon request, offers training in the marketplace to employers and employees dealing with "single parenting /crisis pregnancy".



Affiliated with CARENET, NIFLA and ECFA

Comprehensive Youth Development Afterschool Program. Academic Success: homework centers, college access, goals for graduation. Healthy Lifestyles: Fitness & nutrition, sports & recreation, alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, team sports. Good character & citizenship: volunteerism, character building, mentoring, leadership.

Comprehensive Youth Development Afterschool Program. Academic Success: homework centers, college access, goals for graduation. Healthy Lifestyles: Fitness and nutrition, sports and recreation, alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, team sports. Good character and citizenship: volunteerism, character building, mentoring, leadership.

Comprehensive Youth Development Afterschool Program. Academic Success: homework centers, college access, goals for graduation. Healthy Lifestyles: Fitness & nutrition, sports & recreation, alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, team sports. Good character & citizenship: volunteerism, character building, mentoring, leadership.

Comprehensive Youth Development Afterschool Program. Academic Success: homework centers, college access, goals for graduation. Healthy Lifestyles: Fitness & nutrition, sports & recreation, alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, team sports. Good character & citizenship: volunteerism, character building, mentoring, leadership. Provides a wide array of music, drama, dance, theater, vocal, and instrumental classes.

Comprehensive Youth Development Afterschool Program. Academic Success: homework centers, college access, goals for graduation. Healthy Lifestyles: Fitness & nutrition, sports & recreation, alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, team sports. Good character & citizenship: volunteerism, character building, mentoring, leadership.

Comprehensive Youth Development Afterschool Program. Academic Success: homework centers, college access, goals for graduation. Healthy Lifestyles: Fitness & nutrition, sports & recreation, alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, team sports. Good character & citizenship: volunteerism, character building, mentoring, leadership.

Techgyrls is an after school program that gives girls in elementary and middle school the opportunity to experiment with graphic arts, web design, animation, and robotics in a mentoring environment. Offered through schools.

Techgyrls is an after school program that gives girls in elementary and middle school the opportunity to experiment with graphic arts, web design, animation, and robotics in a mentoring environment. Offered through schools.

Girls Golf, is a junior golf program that teaches girls, age 7-17, how to play golf. Sessions are held on Saturdays at Southmoore Golf Course. Fees apply.

Prom Dress Day provides free formal dresses and accessories to girls who would not be able to attend their prom because of inability to afford suitable attire. All female high school juniors and seniors are invited.

Offers education, advocacy and peer-support services. Services include life skills training and mentor project through three regional coordinating offices: Pro-Act, Rase Project, and Message Carriers.
Provides training on addiction treatment and recovery, youth support groups, a peer support mentoring program, and advocates for recovery.

Monitors juveniles awaiting adjudicatory hearings or final court dispositions. Designed to divert juvenile offenders who are in need of a highly structured, closely supervised program in lieu out-of-home placement or overcrowded detention facilities. Provides case management, daily home visits, nightly curfew calls, weekly school visits, psycho-educational workshops, advocacy, mentoring, community service, restitution payment, and monthly parent support meetings.

Offers a 29-week college awareness program that includes college preparation, life skills instruction, and mentoring. Applies a long view approach to youth development by beginning at age 10 to help youth build academic skills and college readiness.

Offers parenting workshops for fathers in Philadelphia, in-person and virtually using Zoom. Also offers individual and group counseling and referrals to other community resources including job training, mentoring, and educational and social services programs. Pays a $30 stipend. Transportation assistance and childcare services are available upon request.

Offers an addiction prevention and mentoring program

Offers group mentoring sessions for boys and girls to provide a opportunity to speak with positive role models. Mentoring sessions include educational, cultural, and sports programs.

Provides a safe space and youth enrichment programming for area youth. Staffed by youth mentors. Services include case management, counseling, career development, educational opportunities, and workshops using the Positive Action curriculum that addresses a range of topics such as digital literacy, conflict resolution, and entrepreneurship. Facilities include computer lab, video and arcade games, classrooms, and a snacks pantry.

Located in Philadelphia, The Support Center provides a supervised, informal meeting place for men and women in recovery from substance abuse. The Support Center is open during the afternoon and early evenings, and operates with staff supervision at all times. The Support Center facilitates ongoing connection with recovery support. Under the supervision of NET staff, the Support Center offers an array of services to the participants including:
- Peer mentoring and case management support
- 12 step group support
- Faith-based programs
- Emergency housing, flood, and clothing supports
- Social and recreational programs
- G.E.D. attainment assistance
- English as a second language
- Reading, parenting, and life skills education
- Vocational training and career counseling
- Job search support and programming
- Financial literacy and planning
- Credit Restoration

Offers a high school-based enrichment and mentoring program focused on career exposure to the food services and facility management industries,and building 21st Century skills. Also offers Drexel University and St. Joseph’s University students opportunities to gain an understanding of employment opportunities at Aramark and direct access to Aramark’s post-graduate employment programs.

Partners with Philadelphia schools to identify young people who have experienced violence-related trauma. Program therapists and counselors provide a variety of trauma-informed services including individual clinical therapy, psycho-educational groups, and mentoring.

Provides a voluntary program for expectant mothers experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, who need time to establish stability in their lives while knowing they are in a safe and loving environment until they are able to live independently. The program places expectant mothers with an unpaid, compassionate host family before and/or after she delivers her baby, giving her time to adjust, continue her education, find stable employment, and/or locate safe housing. The mom will receive parent education and developmental screenings for her baby; she will be matched with a mentor and will meet regularly with a family coach. Safe Families hostings can last up to one year.

Connects young men to positive male figures from their community for 26-week program of mentoring sessions. Program covers diction, entrepreneurship, technical skills, life skills and lessons, conflict resolution and decision making, and physical education.

Connects young women to positive female figures from their community for 26-week program of mentoring sessions. Program covers diction, etiquette, technical skills, life skills and lessons, conflict resolution and decision making, proper dress and attire, and physical education.

Offers a mentoring program where teen leaders provide individualized assistance to the After-School Program children to complete their homework, develop social and emotional skills, and act as role models for the children. This is a paid position.

Provides a variety of one-on-one mentoring programs for volunteer mentors (Bigs) and their mentees (Littles). Both community-based and site-based mentorship programs offered.

Provides a variety of one-on-one mentoring programs for volunteer mentors (Bigs) and their mentees (Littles). Both community-based and site-based mentorship programs offered.

Provides early intervention programming for at-risk youth. Services include academic support and referrals as needed, social and emotional competency building, mentoring, recreation, work ready programming, and community service opportunities.

Leadership Program is a health, fitness, prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program. The goal of the program is to help boys and girls develop and adopt a healthy attitude and lifestyle, as well as acquire and maintain a positive self-concept, sound decision-making skills and mentor relationship.

Volunteer reading program that brings in MENtors and MENtor Assistants from Susquehanna County to read to kindergarten students for one hour each month to help foster early literacy. At the end of each reading visit students receive a copy of the book read to add to their own personal library.

Services designed to help young adults, ages 16 to 24 years, prepare for and succeed in education, training and employment. Young adults eligible for programming must no longer be in school, either because they withdrew or because they completed high school or post-secondary program. The program Career Counselors will assist participants in preparing and succeeding in education, training and employment. Services provided will include career exploration, peer connections, money management, job searching, interviewing skills, mentoring, college visits, exposure to training programs, local business tours, volunteer/service projects, building leadership skills and information on starting a business. Programming is held in PA CareerLink Offices.

Offers Individual support in the form of mentoring, life skills coaching, and guidance. Services are offered to anyone who is in need of help. Participants must agree to participate in Foundation programs and to accept the Foundation's philosophy of a "HandUP not a hand out."

Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is served through the following programs or partnerships:


School Readiness.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Libary providing a free book monthly program; Book Drive providing new and gently used children's books that will then be distributed to children. Reading Buddies, a volunteer reading program that brings in mentors. The Nurses Pantry provides at-risk students and families with access to commonly needed material items to address needs of an urgent nature. Summer Learning program.

Provides Foster Care and Treatment services to youth who require 24-hour substitute care as a result of abuse, neglect and/or dependency issues in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester Counties. Services are typically provided for children 4-18 years of age.The children we serve in our Therapeutic Foster Care program may have intellectual and developmental disabilities or emotional and behavioral challenges, and we provide them with nurturing homes where they can thrive.

The MENTOR Community Residential Rehabilitation Host Home Program provides an array of therapeutic supports and services to vulnerable children and their families, enabling both to be successful in their own lives and within the larger community.Basic services provided for every child include room & board, advice and counseling, medication monitoring and adherence, self-care training, supervision of schoolwork/activities, recreation, involvement in the treatment planning process, treatment plan implementation, and family support.

In our Lifesharing program, also known as Host Homes, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities live in the community of their choice in the private family home of their dedicated Lifesharing providers who we call Mentors.Mentors provide the individuals we serve with:
24-hour home-based monitoring; Medication management oversight; Community integration/structured activities; Life skills development; Activities of daily living management;Transportation; 24/7 on-call support from our team of experts.

Wraparound Services offers a range of services for children. The program specializes in working with autistic children.

Services available include:
- Behavior Specialist Consultants
- Therapeutic Staff Support
- Mobile Therapy
- Case Management

Wraparound Services offers a range of services for children. The program specializes in working with autistic children.

Services available include:
- Behavior Specialist Consultants
- Therapeutic Staff Support
- Mobile Therapy
- Case Management

Wraparound Services offers a range of services for children. The program specializes in working with autistic children.

Services available include:
- Behavior Specialist Consultants
- Therapeutic Staff Support
- Mobile Therapy
- Case Management

In this program, young mothers living in the homes of our foster parents, who we call Mentors, receive intensive case management services to help them be the best moms they can be.The program inlcudes:Parenting classes
- Independent living classes
- Day care
- Support groups
- Access to health care, WIC, and transportation

We offer programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and medically complex conditions.
Our services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and medically complex conditions include:
-Residential services including Lifesharing (also known as Host Homes) and Community Living (also known as Group Homes)
-Supported Living
-Day programs
-Relief Support
-Hourly Support Services

A group mentoring program for teens ages 13 and older who are already a part of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Designed to teach adult-life skills and help teens prepare for the decisions they will need to make after high school graduation. Meets once a month. It is run by teens.

A group mentoring program which provides immediate mentoring services to youth upon acceptance to the agency, while the Little awaits a One-To-One match.

A school-based mentoring program. It is highly supervised by the professional staff of Big Brothers Big Sisters on-site at participating schools. The target population is elementary and middle school children, adaptable to meet the requirements of a particular school district.
The program works in conjunction with school district officials to improve a child’s academic performance, self-confidence, respect for others & their cultures, and relationships with peers & adults. Mentors can be high school students, college students, or community members (depending on the site).


- Conrad Weiser School District – East Elementary, West Elementary, and Middle School
- Hamburg Area School District – Tilden Elementary and Middle School
- Governor Mifflin School District – Governor Mifflin Middle School
- Oley Valley School District – Oley Elementary
- Fleetwood School District – Andrew Maier Elementary
- Reading School District – Glenside Elementary

Creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships between youth and adults.

Offers mentoring programs with weekly sessions led by adult volunteers. Goals are to help teens communicate openly, discover life options and opportunities, develop social skills, and become aware of the world around them. Activities may include guided discussions, rap sessions, guest speakers, social events, and cultural enrichment.

Combines individual mentoring programs with comprehensive after-school instructional services and financial support, all tailored to fit the needs of the individual student. Students in the program may also receive laptops, calculators, and USBs.

Variety After School Program offers a wide range of Educational, Recreational, Therapeutic, Cultural and Social activities during the after school hours in locations throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region for children with disabilities. Students benefit from high staff to student ratios. Activities offered at Variety help meet or exceed appropriate state and local academic achievement standards in reading and math (based on criterion found in each student's IEP) and improvement in school attendance, classroom performance as well as reduced disciplinary referrals. After school programs can play a key role in engaging youth in the learning process by providing opportunities to explore interests, gain competency in real work skills, solve problems, assume leadership roles, develop a group identity with similar aged peers, connect to adult role models and mentors, and become involved in improving their communities. The program also offers parents and families educational workshops, a Community Advisory Bo

Truancy intervention is provided to identified schools and supported through the United Way and other donation dollars at no fee to the family. Staff works with the school-identified youth that missed ten or more days of school. Services can be from one to two hours per week and may include tutoring, mentoring, and counseling for both the youth and their family. Concrete needs of the family are also addressed. The youth and his or her family may be seen in school, home, or other community sites.

Provides group and Individual mentoring services designed to help youth define a strong career path and build permanent connections to caring adults. The program requires adults to connect with their mentee one time per month. Youth participants have the ability to earn stipends for the completion of Mentoring Surveys.

Provides group and Individual mentoring services designed to help youth define a strong career path and build permanent connections to caring adults.

Provides role modeling, tutoring, recreational and life skills development to at-risk children and youth in the community or in daycare settings. In home respite is provided for families involved with Lehigh County Mental Health and Northampton County Mental Health with a mental health diagnosis.

Across Ages is a one-on-one mentoring program that matches Pen Argyl students in the 5th through 8th grade with senior adults over age 50. Learning Together is a high school mentoring program that matches business and community volunteers with Pen Argyl High School students to provide role modeling and encourage higher education.

Provides after school programming covering four core areas: education and career development, health and life skills, the arts, and fitness and recreation. Activities and services include homework help, digital literacy training, mentoring, sports and games, nutrition education, gardening, and more.

Provides age-appropriate programming and activities for teens in a safe and welcoming space. Activities include mentoring, Teen Fridays, scuba diving, robotics, and more.

Offers a mentoring program that promotes educational achievement; positive citizenship and leadership development; preparing for and maintaining employment; and support through guidance, counseling, and adult mentoring.
Clients are exposed to high demand careers and go on several tours of successful businesses to learn about different careers.
Clients are assisted in their college search, financial aid, and completing the FAFSA. SAT prep is offered and clients go on several college visits throughout their time in the program.

Swimming instruction, school age child care, fitness, teen programs, youth sports, parent/child programs,youth basketball league,youth handball, mentoring, and Youth in Government program.

Matches local children with an adult friend to serve as a mentor through one-to-one time together. Provides individualized goal plans for each child, as well as professional staff support for volunteers, parents, and children.

Matches children with caring friends (adults, college students, or high school students) for one-to-one mentoring at local elementary schools and various after school programs throughout the tri-county region. Also offers the Bigs in Blue Program which provides law enforcement mentoring in schools during lunch or recess.

The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) consists of 10 - two-hour units and is taught by a team of trained "Mentors'' who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness. We've been there. You are not alone. The class meets once a week for a total of nine weeks.

Participants come away many tangible resources: an advance psychiatric directive; a ``relapse prevention plan'' to help identify tell-tale feelings, thoughts, behavior, or events that may warn of impending relapse and to organize for intervention early; mindfulness exercises to help focus and calm thinking; and survival skills for working with providers and the general public. You come away with a lot of resources, skills, knowledge to help in this recovery journey.

Offers physical activities, fellowship, mentoring and Christian education.

Transportation provided: During the summer months these children are transported to the YMCA's Sam's Summer Day Camp site for eight full weeks of camping activities. Also offers membership privileges to 13 to19 year old underprivileged youth. Income verification is required for program participation.

Mentors and provides youth with core values of volunteering and career development to build leadership skills and qualities.

Identify homeless students within the School District of Lancaster and to ensure that identified students are enrolled in school, their educational needs are assured, and disruptions in their attendance and academic program are minimized. A Task Force, comprised of representatives of numerous social service agencies advises the project. Efforts to assist homeless students have included:
- Policy changes permitting the admission of homeless students whose immunizations have been started, but not completed, or whose school records are incomplete.
- A small fund to purchase bus passes for a temporary period to facilitate the attendance of "sheltered" students. HSP workers also use the fund to purchase school uniforms and supplies for students for whom lack of these items is a barrier to their enrollment and attendance
- Referrals to after-school tutor and mentor programs
- Ongoing inservice program for teachers and service staff to increase their awareness of homelessness issues and their k

SAIL is a four partner collaborative funded by the United Way of Lancaster to prepare children served by Family Child Care Providers for Kindergarten Readiness and Life Success.

SAIL works with Family Child Care Providers on topics such as effective business practices, conducting meaningful activities with children, modeling best practices, and understanding the complexities of state licensing regulations. SAIL also provides parenting resources, nutrition and wellness, literacy services, free training, information on other community programs, and so much more.

Provides a community-based mentoring program, one-to-one outings, and activities in the community. Special mentoring programs are also available, including mentoring for African American, Hispanic, and Native American children, as well as mentoring for children with parents in the military and children with a parent who is incarcerated.

Provides faith-based support group program, for women, offering Life skills education, in all aspects of life; and works to equip women for service to others, with mentoring is available. NOTE: This is not a residential program.

Provides structured activities that are planned and offered five days and two evenings every week. These programs offer opportunities for participants to develop relationship skills while participating in group and community activities.

Provides special events for teens, clubs, group socialization, 3 annual dramatic productions, Bible studies, other special recreational events and school of music, and drama. Provides community service fulfillment available for court adjudicated youth programs, academic honors, scouting and religious projects. Provides post high school group availabe and post high school life skills mentoring.

Offers a wide variety of services that are structured around each youth's individual needs. Skills are taught through a variety of means including the use of packets, workbooks, individual sessions, group sessions, and role modeling. In addition youth have the opportunity to participate in mentoring activities as a group (such as camping, IL Retreat, and trips) as well as between two youth and an IL Counselor to discuss topics such as living on their own or attending college.

Serves youth through mentoring, group activities, community service opportunities, and access to evidence based curriculum including Aggression Replacement Training (ART) and Victim Offender/Community Awareness Impact of Crime, youth are given practical and social skills intended to help them avoid future delinquent behavior.

Provides a home visitation program; nurses mentor income-eligible first-time mothers and provide education and support from early pregnancy through the child's second birthday.

Provides a home visitation program; nurses mentor income-eligible first-time mothers and provide education and support from early pregnancy through the child's second birthday.

Provides a home visitation program; nurses mentor income-eligible first-time mothers and provide education and support from early pregnancy through the child's second birthday.

Provides a home visitation program; nurses mentor income-eligible first-time mothers and provide education and support from early pregnancy through the child's second birthday.

Offers comprehensive prison services and reentry programming providing health linkages, supportive services, education, and advocacy for individuals, families, and communities impacted by mass incarceration. Services include case management, employment services, work-readiness and job retention initiatives, computer literacy, peer mentoring, expungement clinics, anger management program, parenting classes, and more.

Provides case management and wraparound support to at risk young adults and ex-offenders. Services include personalized assessment, educational support, job readiness training, job finding assistance, mentoring, and more.

Provides a wide range of recreation and social programs for youth, ages 13 to 18. Offers educational and cultural programs, youth development training, mentoring workshops and job readiness courses, in addition to the sports and fitness programs offered at other recreation facilities. Outreach services also provided to recruit and engage youth who may be at risk.

Helps kids learn life lessons while they build bicycles. Students are paired with adult mentors, then spend 12 weeks learning how to fix and ride a bike they choose. At the end of the session, students earn their refurbished bike and a new helmet. Students enrolled in this program can also access others, including afterschool drop-in, Earn a Book, youth leadership, and cycling programs.

Helps kids learn life lessons while they build bicycles. Students are paired with adult mentors, then spend 12 weeks learning how to fix and ride a bike they choose. At the end of the session, students earn their refurbished bike and a new helmet. Students enrolled in this program can also access others, including afterschool drop-in, Earn a Book, youth leadership, and cycling programs.

Helps kids learn life lessons while they build bicycles. Students are paired with adult mentors, then spend 12 weeks learning how to fix and ride a bike they choose. At the end of the session, students earn their refurbished bike and a new helmet. Students enrolled in this program can also access others, including afterschool drop-in, Earn a Book, youth leadership, and cycling programs.

Helps kids learn life lessons while they build bicycles. Students are paired with adult mentors, then spend 12 weeks learning how to fix and ride a bike they choose. At the end of the session, students earn their refurbished bike and a new helmet. Students enrolled in this program can also access others, including afterschool drop-in, Earn a Book, youth leadership, and cycling programs.

Supports the establishment, development, and growth of Black-owned businesses through educational programs, coaching, mentoring, and free resources. Participants receive free resources from partners like Shopify and Intuit.

Works with Conestoga Valley residents and those who attend church in the CV district identifying and serving their needs. They offer food, clothing, mentoring, and spiritual and financial counseling.
* Food Bank (CV residents and CV church attendees)
* Summer Lunch Program
* Clothing Bank (serves Lancaster County)
* Weekend Blessings program (CV students)
* Thanksgiving and Christmas box giveaway (CV Residents)
* Rooted, after school mentoring (CV students)
* Back on Track, financial coaching, and aid

Offers:
- Faith-based youth development/leadership programs
- Mentoring
- Counseling
- Academic enrichment
- Police Athletic/Activities League
- We Rock the Mic, spoken word poetry
- Youth operated Remix Recording Sound Studio
- Summer Camps

Services include mentoring, character development, academic support, exposure to educational opportunities including college visits, career exposures, workshops, field trips, free back to school supplies, and Annual Youth Career Day.

Partners with schools and community centers across the city to offer wrestling programming to Philadelphia youth. Also offers a mentoring program at headquarters for high school participants of the wrestling program; mentoring includes homework help, test prep, and college/career readiness assistance in a safe environment.

Meets twice a month on Saturdays. Sessions cover topics such as self development, health and wellness, education and college, family matters, economic empowerment, trades, entrepreneurship, banking and investing, insurance, and home ownership. Partners with Father's Day Rally Committee to deliver program.

Offers a leadership development and mentoring program. Participants break into age-appropriate groups led by trained mentors and focus on self-awareness, character building, goal setting, time management, communication, social engagement, networking, conflict resolution, developmental skills, peer mentoring, and leadership skills.

Provides 3 to 6 months of community-based, family-centered support to youth experiencing disciplinary challenges at home, in school, or in the community. Services include case management, onsite after-school programming, counseling, life skills workshops, mentoring, educational support, and linkages to community resources.

Provides 3 to 6 months of community-based, family-centered support to youth experiencing disciplinary challenges at home, in school, or in the community. Services include case management, onsite after-school programming, counseling, life skills workshops, mentoring, educational support, and linkages to community resources.

Provides 3 to 6 months of community-based, family-centered support to youth experiencing disciplinary challenges at home, in school, or in the community. Services include case management, onsite after-school programming, counseling, life skills workshops, mentoring, educational support, and linkages to community resources.

Provides 3 to 6 months of community-based, family-centered support to youth experiencing disciplinary challenges at home, in school, or in the community. Services include case management, onsite after-school programming, counseling, life skills workshops, mentoring, educational support, and linkages to community resources.

Offers structured activities and safe spaces for youth who are at risk, and those who have come to the attention of the Philadelphia Police after a curfew violation. Programs offered include job readiness training, coding, conflict resolution, violent prevention, mentoring, service linkages, family engagement, and other activities. Provides referral service for families needing additional resources and services.

Provides adult mentors who work to help youth achieve their potential, improve self-esteem, and become productive members of their community.

Provides a girls-only mentoring program that meets monthly in person at various restaurants in Philadelphia. Also conducts weekly virtual meetings and an organized group chat. Engages girls ages 11 to 16 in guided conversations/activities led by one or more trained staff or volunteers. Topics vary and may include school, relationships with family, social media, sex, drugs, gun violence, peer pressure, health, or whatever the girls identify as pressing issues for them.

Provides a faith-based activity center, mentoring relationships, and weekly discussion groups enabling teens to grow socially, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.

Introduces urban middle and high school students to outdoor recreational activities, such as hunting, fishing, and archery. Students are matched with volunteer mentors who provide tutoring and guidance along with structured outdoor activities, as they earn rewards for meeting their social and academic goals.

Offers a 24-week program that teaches the basics of carpentry. Provides tools, a weekly stipend of $150, dinner for students, mentoring for both personal and professional issues, and job finding assistance. Class meets twice a week.

Provides transitional housing and Christian-based support services for women who are actively working towards financial stability. Program duration is 9 to 18 months and includes needs assessment, mentoring, goal setting, financial advisement, and connection to social service supports toward achieving personal goals.

Provides annual scholarships to college students, and ongoing services such as books, meal plans, clothing, dorm items, transportation, and housing assistance. Offers programs for youth workforce development, youth and family mentoring, financial literacy, and computer literacy. Also serves as a direct resource for individuals with ALS.

Provides two weeks of life skills and job readiness training, mentoring (continues post-program), trauma-informed group counseling, and job finding assistance. Participants receive a $15.00 per hour stipend and a daily complimentary meal.

Provides programming to address health disparities affecting North Philadelphia. Focus areas include access to healthy food options, juvenile diabetes, literacy, mental health support, vocational training, quality of care, harm reduction, mentoring, and recovery/wellness/healing.

Offers an educational program based in an interactive STEM curriculum that teaches practical leadership skills and provides learning opportunities in computer coding, robotics, fundamental science, math, and engineering.

- Youth Center: A safe place for youth in grades 7-12 to connect with one another, have recreation, free meals and caring volunteers
- Mentoring: Offers students a place to have safe relationships with caring adults who will listen, encourage and teach life skills. One-to-one mentoring provides a student the opportunity to reach their full potential
- Free After School Tutoring: Offers a safe place to receive one-to-one tutoring in a variety of subjects
- Cross Jr: An after school program for youth in grades 3-5

Provides environmental STEM education through field trips, summer camps, classroom learning, peer mentoring, and leadership programs.

Offers short-term, transitional housing and support to homeless families. One home is used to support the family and administer their program. Participants pay a program deposit and monthly program fee. Specific rules and regulations set up by the Homes of Hope program must be followed. A mentor and budget coach meet with the residents weekly to monitor progress toward self-sufficiency. Residents must also be willing to commit to program goals and work.

Offers short-term, transitional housing and support to homeless families. One home is used to support the family and administer their program. Participants pay a program deposit and monthly program fee. Specific rules and regulations set up by the Homes of Hope program must be followed. A mentor and budget coach meet with the residents weekly to monitor progress toward self-sufficiency. Residents must also be willing to commit to program goals and work.

Offers short-term, transitional housing and support to homeless families. One home is used to support the family and administer their program. Participants pay a program deposit and monthly program fee. Specific rules and regulations set up by the Homes of Hope program must be followed. A mentor and budget coach meet with the residents weekly to monitor progress toward self-sufficiency. Residents must also be willing to commit to program goals and work.

Offers short-term, transitional housing and support to homeless families. One home is used to support the family and administer their program. Participants pay a program deposit and monthly program fee. Specific rules and regulations set up by the Homes of Hope program must be followed. A mentor and budget coach meet with the residents weekly to monitor progress toward self-sufficiency. Residents must also be willing to commit to program goals and work.

Offers short-term, transitional housing and support to homeless families. One home is used to support the family and administer their program. Participants pay a program deposit and monthly program fee. Specific rules and regulations set up by the Homes of Hope program must be followed. A mentor and budget coach meet with the residents weekly to monitor progress toward self-sufficiency. Residents must also be willing to commit to program goals and work.

Offers short-term, transitional housing and support to homeless families. One home is used to support the family and administer their program. Participants pay a program deposit and monthly program fee. Specific rules and regulations set up by the Homes of Hope program must be followed. A mentor and budget coach meet with the residents weekly to monitor progress toward self-sufficiency. Residents must also be willing to commit to program goals and work.

Offers short-term, transitional housing and support to homeless families. One home is used to support the family and administer their program. Participants pay a program deposit and monthly program fee. Specific rules and regulations set up by the Homes of Hope program must be followed. A mentor and budget coach meet with the residents weekly to monitor progress toward self-sufficiency. Residents must also be willing to commit to program goals and work.

Offers programs and volunteer opportunities that provides the practical training, mentoring and confidence required to help the community integrate bicycling into their everyday life.
Programs include:
- Earn-a-Bike: Youth 11-21 fix up and earn a bike while receiving training in bicycle assembly, maintenance, and safety
- Bikes for All: low-income individuals, formerly incarcerated persons, and refugees can get access to affordable and practical transportation
- Youth Bike Workshop: Provides open shop time for youth to come and use shop amenities during designated times, keeping their repair skills sharp
- Adult Mechanic Class: Provides students with an opportunity to get guided experience under the instruction and guidance of experienced bicycle technicians; Geared for the 18+ crowd
- Co-op space where individuals can refurbish a bike under the eye of experienced mechanics as a low-cost option to earning their own bike
- Spring Bike Fling: Gives elementary-aged children in the School District of L

The 11th and Pike Recreation Center provides safe and fun recreation activities to City youth all year long. During the school year, the recreation center is open every day from 3:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. and in the summer hosts a playground program daily from 12:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The center has an elementary-size gymnasium, a game room, homework room, and cafeteria. During the year, daily activities include arts and crafts, board games, sports activities, tutoring, career development workshops and clubs. Some of the most popular clubs include Art and Dance Clubs.

11th and Pike was host to several special events in 2012 including our Easter Celebration and a special visit from Disney’s Phineas and Ferb.

The recreation center serves as a "home away from home" to many kids. They are provided meals every day through our Kids Café program, receive homework help and valuable mentoring time with our qualified staff.

Offers mentoring for women and men in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility to help prepare them for a successful transition back home.

Provides workshops, recreation and mentors to children who are experiencing one or both parents who are incarcerated.

Prepares students for employment in the human services field. Provides training and classroom instruction in how to apply the Strengths-based approach when providing services to clients and families. Also provides professional development workshops, mentoring, digital literacy training, 10-week professional development pre-apprenticeship, and other apprenticeship opportunities.

Provides mentoring, therapeutic and life skill groups for young people (ages 14 to 18) in the juvenile justice system.

Provies a peer to peer mentoring program that matches high school students with elementary school students.

Provides business planning and counseling, referrals and mentoring, workforce development, and financial options/counseling.

Provides work opportunities with same day pay of $100. Also connects participants with peer mentors for additional support.

Provides a safe space for young people in North Philadelphia to develop their interpersonal skills and focus on their development, beyond the confines of their environments which have been plagued by violence and drugs. Services include mentoring, weekly/daily interactive programming, career exploration, and counseling to teach students tools to cope, manage conflict, build resiliency, and become the best version of themselves.