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Join us to learn how to provide non-medical home care services.  Frail elderly, young adults, chronic or terminally ill, convalescing, and disabled neighbors need your help.

Homemaker-Home Health Aide Training Lab is scheduled from August 27 through September 30. Classes are held three days a week, (usually Tues, Wed, Thurs) 9am to 3:30pm. 

The course consists of 100 hours of classroom, hands-on and clinical training relevant to providing non-medical home care services.  Topics include:  click to continue

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A Time, Talent and Treasure Story

John Edwards, III is direct about his feelings.  “Without Milestone I would lose everything,” he says.  “I would be so sick.  It would be awful.  I would relapse and drink.  Being here is just so important.”  John is one of the thousands of extraordinary individuals receiving behavioral health and intellectual supports from Milestone Centers, Inc., a nonprofit agency currently celebrating four decades of service and caring.  Milestone’s forty years of existence have made a difference in the lives of countless individuals and families.  click to continue

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Think about what it takes to construct a building. An architect imagines the possibilities and creates a customized blueprint. A foundation is laid with an impressive structure finally constructed upon it. At SharpVisions, we use a similar process to help people we support to build inspiring lives.

We customize supports for people with disabilities and unique challenges. We start with a person’s click to continue

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You Can Count on NHCO to Have Lots Going On in April

March 25, 2010 North Hills Community Outreach

North Hills Community Outreach Holds 4th Annual Pasta Dinner North Hills Community Outreach’s Millvale Satellite will host a Pasta Dinner on Friday, April 16, from 4-7 PM, at the Millvale Community Center, 416 Lincoln Ave. Dine in or take out. Tickets are $7 in advance or $9 the day of the event, and include pasta, [...]

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Like Horses, Kids and People? Volunteer at In-Stride Therapeutic Riding, Inc.

March 8, 2010 In-Stride With Therapeutic Riding
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At In-Stride Therapeutic Riding, Inc. we provide recreational horseback riding lessons with therapeutic benefits to children and adults with disabilities   Our 2010 season is about to begin and we sure could use more volunteers. .  This tentative riding schedule, listed below,  will give you an idea of when help is most needed.   Riding lessons will be [...]

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Beaver County Association for the Blind Kids are Going To Disney

February 8, 2010 Beaver County Association for the Blind

We are very excited to announce that Beaver County Association for the Blind and the Keystone Kids have been accepted to attend the Disney YES (Youth Education Series) Program.  So, we will be going to “Disney Again in 2010!!!”  In the summer of 2005, the generosity

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Look How Horseback Riding Helps the Disabled

December 18, 2009 In-Stride With Therapeutic Riding

In-Stride with Therapeutic Riding, Inc. provides recreational horseback riding with therapeutic benefits to individuals with disabilities.  Who we serve Our clients include individuals with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, asperger’s, autism, down syndrome, blindness, ADD, ADHD, and depression.  Their ages range from 3 to 26.

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Support Children With Disabilities by Purchasing These Tasty Treats

November 20, 2009 Woodlands

Blow Your Diet and Help Support Programs for Children With Disabilities!  The Woodlands Foundation is once again offering a really tasty way to blow your diet for a worthy cause. Our volunteers are busy baking holiday rum and apricot brandy cakes to help support programs for children with disabilities. This is not diet food, folks. [...]

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Do You Have Time to Volunteer and Help a Neighbor?

October 8, 2009 Faith in Action

Have you ever thought about volunteering but don’t know what to do?  If so, please consider helping your neighbors through Faith in Action.  Faith in Action brings volunteers of different faiths together to care for their homebound neighbors who may be isolated and living with chronic health conditions or disabilities.  Recently, there have been several requests [...]

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Nonprofits Working Together, Everyone Benefits

September 8, 2009 RSVP

 Here’s an example of the great things that can take place when organizations collaborate to get things done. RSVP Director Valerie McElvy is always hunting for new projects, missions and ways to involve volunteers.  One such project, Wheels for the World, came our way purely by accident. Wheels for the World was started by Joni [...]

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