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Programs Supported |
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Basic Reading
Offers one-to-one tutoring on flexible schedule to individuals with
sixth-grade reading level or below. Students set goals based on real-life needs.
Literacy
Volunteers of Broome/Tioga
Casework and Technical Program
Assists foreign-born individuals through the process of naturalization.
Offers help in completing detailed forms, counseling for personal or family
programs experienced as part of adjustment to a new culture, and other services.
American Civic Association
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Childcare
Programs
Licensed childcare for children ranging in age from infancy to preteens.
Programs provide educational development programs in addition to daycare
services for parents who are working or in school.
Day Nursery
Association, Boys
and Girls Club of Western Broome, Broome
County YMCA, Jewish
Community Center of Binghamton, Wilson
Children's Center, YWCA
of Binghamton/Broome County,
Community Education and Family Programs
Provides wide range of activities for infants through older adults designed
to assist development of children, help adults manage stress, and promote
independence. Includes seminars on family issues,
and therapeutic and recreational exercise.
Boys
and Girls Club of Western Broome
Counseling Services
Helps individuals, families, and groups resolve their problems, overcome trauma, feel better about
themselves, and develop positive relationships. Family and couple conflict, personal
development;
domestic violence, parent-child relationships; pre-marital
evaluations/counseling; marriage/relationship counseling; separation/divorce adjustment;
school adjustment; and anxiety and depression are addressed by
certified social workers. Individual, marital, and group therapy are offered
along with Employee Assistance Program Services,
educational groups, and services for children and adolescents.
Family
and Children’s Society,
Catholic
Social Services of Broome County
Education Services
Presents programs to about 8,000 Broome County preschool, elementary, middle, and high
school students, teaching them to make choices that reduce the risk of
victimization. Separate programs offered for preschool, elementary school children and for
junior and senior high students.
Crime
Victims Assistance Center
English as a Second Language
Teaches English
comprehension and conversational English on one-to-one basis to
students whose native language is not English.
Literacy
Volunteers of Broome/Tioga
Functional Family Therapy
Provides intensive home-based family counseling as well as advocacy and coordination of services to youth
(and their families) who are at high risk of being placed in foster care, group homes, or institutions.
Broome
County Catholic Youth Organization
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Pregnancy,
Parenting, and Adoptions Program
Provides
professional counseling for single expectant parents and their families;
counseling/case management, individual prenatal and parenting instruction;
foster care; education on human sexuality and childbirth. Provides all aspects
of adoption services including domestic and international home studies, placement supervision, preparation for
legal adoption, and post-placement services. Offers STEP-Early Childhood classes
and The Happiest Baby infant parenting program.
Catholic
Social Services of Broome County
Supervised Visitation
Offers court-ordered, non-custodial parents a neutral environment to visit their
children. Trained parent aides serve as role models for positive parent-child
interaction and supervise visitation in safe, comfortable, and child-friendly
visitation areas.
Family
and Children’s Society
Updated: July 22, 2008
