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Assists neighborhood residents in organizing around common issues and in formulating and implementing plans to address community concerns with policymakers. Helps coordinate and develop block clubs and provides services to residents. Provides services aimed at preventing crime and juvenile delinquency. Service includes community-trained mediators who can mediate neighborhood disputes in eligible areas.

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Community Organizing Assistance
Mediation
Neighborhood Improvement Groups
Provides holiday hours for each season and other visitor information

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Halloween Events
Christmas Festivals
Farmers Markets
Conference/Convention Planning Support
Tourist Information
Uses volunteer committees to identify health and human service needs and to allocate funds for programs and work to address community problems. Promotes understanding of and collaboration with the public health and human service sectors through the public policy committee and other community-building efforts. Operates programs United Way functions including financial resources development and community partnerships.

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Federated Giving Programs
Community Organizing Assistance
Offers professional development, technical assistance, and resources to help design educational environments that enable all learners to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning.
Provides assistance to citizen groups in planning the most effective ways to approach local officials and others regarding issues that affect their neighborhoods.
Assists community organizations and individuals in need. Funds are split between a number of charitable causes and individual amounts may not be large. The organization assists with medical expenses, holiday items, emergency food, disaster response funds, and gift cards. NOTE: Issuing funds may take time as members may wish to discuss disbursement at meeting.

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Medical Care Expense Assistance
Eye Care Expense Assistance
Community Organizing Assistance
Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Offers guidance, instruction, and training for daily life activities for immigrants new to region. - Provides assistance with navigating various systems, teaching minor home repair, money management, and completing paperwork such as immigration forms and obtaining a driver's license. - Assists with obtaining appropriate clothing, basic household items, and accessing programs that provide material assistance. - Assists with school enrollments and in-home English tutoring and small group instruction for adults.

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Immigrants
Cultural Transition Facilitation
Financial Management Support
English as a Second Language
Promotes the rights of workers by educating the broader community about workplace abuses, helping workers improve employment standards, and supporting workers' rights to organize. Offers educational programs, speakers, and printed materials about workers' issues, such as workers' rights and free trade. Offers workers the opportunity to report abuse and violations of wage theft and other worker issues that may be system wide. Does not provide direct services for individuals, but does offer membership for persons interested in supporting workers rights.

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Employment Related Advocacy Groups
Employment Issues
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Community Organizing Assistance
Provides professional development, technical assistance and coaching to support districts in developing their capacity to fully implement research-based processes and educational practices using a connected set of tools and resources. Key areas of support include school improvement/Ohio Improvement Process (OIP), special education, instructional strategies and frameworks, early learning and school readiness, and positive behavior interventions and supports. through collaboration within and across regions, SSTs access national, state, regional and local agencies and resources to support districts and families. State Support Team, Region 8 supports districts, community schools, and families in Summit, Medina and Portage counties.
Develops financial resources for human services through an annual campaign and other programs such as planned giving, United Way at work, Combined Federal Campaign, and year round communications about United Way services and community needs.

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Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
Fundraising and Resource Development Support
Offers a board recruitment / training and referral program. Prospective board members (volunteers) are referred to a nonprofit or public agency based on the volunteer's interests and qualifications and agency need. Nonprofit or public leadership and the prospective volunteer interview each other and election to the board occurs if it is an appropriate fit. Prospective board members receive training on the roles and responsibilities of serving on a board. In addition, the Agency offers Board consulting and training services.
Assists conventions coming to Akron and Summit County. Assistance includes program planning and press conferences. Provides referrals for speakers, brochures, and information about the Akron/Summit county area.
Professional association of realtors serving Richland and Crawford Counties, Ohio. Members follow a code of ethics for real estate professionals and are provided continuing education opportunities. Association also provides resources to those looking for real estate.

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Housing Search Assistance
Trade Associations
Facility Management Assistance
Provides assistance with resolving problems and information on upcoming neighborhood projects. Issues covered include parking, safety, development, and access to city programs.
Provides training and assistance to residents in starting and running community groups to ensure safety and communication on important neighborhood issues.
Assists conventions coming to Akron and Summit County. Assistance includes program planning and press conferences. Provides referrals for speakers, brochures, and information about the Akron/Summit county area.
Comprehensive behavioral health treatment for children and adolescents with emotional/behavioral /substance problems; individual, group, family counseling; case management/therapeutic behavioral support; summer intensive outpatient program; psychiatric services; 24-hour crisis intervention; Linkages school-based suicide prevention program depression education and suicide screenings for students in Mahoning and Trumbull County Middle and High Schools; early child-parent education; ropes and initiative course; mental health evaluation; in-school consultation; peer support; respite.

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Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Suicide Prevention Programs
Therapeutic Camps
Art Therapy
Respite Care
Administrative/Support Services Offices
Family Counseling
Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Early Head Start Sites
Crisis Intervention Skills Development
School Readiness Programs
Home Based Mental Health Services
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Case/Care Management
Professional Continuing Education
Early Intervention for Mental Illness
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Children and Youth With Emotional Disturbance
Parenting Skills Classes
Central Intake/Assessment for Mental Health Services
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Social Skills Training
Job Readiness
Recreational Therapy
Psychiatric Medication Services
Head Start Sites
Group Counseling
Student Counseling Services
Comprehensive behavioral health treatment for children and adolescents with emotional/behavioral /substance problems; individual, group, family counseling; case management/therapeutic behavioral support; summer intensive outpatient program; psychiatric services; 24-hour crisis intervention; Linkages school-based suicide prevention program depression education and suicide screenings for students in Mahoning and Trumbull County Middle and High Schools; early child-parent education; ropes and initiative course; mental health evaluation; in-school consultation; peer support; respite.

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Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Suicide Prevention Programs
Therapeutic Camps
Art Therapy
Respite Care
Administrative/Support Services Offices
Family Counseling
Psychiatric Mobile Response Teams
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Early Head Start Sites
Crisis Intervention Skills Development
School Readiness Programs
Home Based Mental Health Services
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Case/Care Management
Professional Continuing Education
Early Intervention for Mental Illness
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Children and Youth With Emotional Disturbance
Parenting Skills Classes
Central Intake/Assessment for Mental Health Services
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Social Skills Training
Job Readiness
Recreational Therapy
Psychiatric Medication Services
Head Start Sites
Group Counseling
Student Counseling Services
Conducts a monthly meeting to discuss issues and programs affecting the blind and vision impaired.
Educational services to Columbiana County school districts. Psycho-educational evaluations, speech and hearing therapy, occupational and physical therapy; special and general educational consultants; classes provided including gift/talented, hearing and visually impaired, multiple disabilities and severely emotionally disturbed. Early childhood programs.

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Occupational Therapy
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Special Education Classes/Centers
Special Education Assessment
Service Planning and Delivery Assistance
Physical Therapy
Speech Therapy
Assists families that have multiple needs navigate services. Provides the venue to address family needs, eliminate duplication and build natural supports. Assists with connection to family supports such as respite, camps, social activities, coaching, parent education, advocacy and assistance for paying the cost of these services. Transition planning provided between home to residential placement and back to the home and community. This includes determining the goals of placement, reviewing progress made and supports needed to bring the youth home and assure a stable environment. Structure includes a Service Coordination Steering Committee that reviews cases, approves use of funding, and monitors outcomes.

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Service Planning and Delivery Assistance
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Case/Care Management
Families With Children
Offers consultation and referral services, in areas of special needs populations including persons with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and learning disabilities.
A non-profit economic development agency whose goal is to enhance the employment opportunities and economic prosperity of the city and county.
Provides assistance in organizing activities that facilitate and build productive interdependent personal relationships among the residents, businesses, stakeholders, service providers, and politicians and empower them to work together and develop leadership capacity to solve problems and to achieve tangible, measurable and lasting results of mutual benefits to the neighborhood. Current neighborhood-wide issue committees that mobilize community members to act on issues that affect them include: schools, environment, safety, garden and green space, and housing/planning.
Assists neighborhood groups in the development of community vegetable gardens on vacant lots. Includes help with organizational planning and garden site design. Also offers educational workshops, access to resources, use of equipment, such as rototillers, etc. and a communications network.

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Community Organizing Assistance
Gardening/Landscaping Instruction
Community Gardening
Nature Centers/Walks
Workshops/Symposiums