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Coalition Against Domestic Violence, NYS
AKA (Also Known As):
NYSCADV
Address:
350 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, NY 12208
Albany, NY 12208
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9 am-5 pm
Phone:
Fax:
(518) 482-3807
Email:
The New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence is a not-for-profit membership organization with a mission of eradicating domestic violence and ensuring effective and appropriate services to victims of domestic violence.
The Coalition sponsors the following projects:
The Coalition sponsors the following projects:
- technical assistance and support to domestic violence service providers
- technical assistance and protocol development assistance for probation departments statewide
- training and conferences
- outreach and community education
- assistance and consultation in developing public policy and strategies for preventing domestic violence
- newsletter with information on domestic violence issues
- resource library
- community coordination and protocol development assistance
Collaborative Solutions Network
AKA (Also Known As):
CSN
Address:
201 E. Green Street
Ithaca , NY 14850
Ithaca , NY 14850
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4 pm
Phone:
Fax:
(607) 274-6316
Title:
Facilitator
This collaborative effort supports youth with mental health challenges through:
- Whole Child Checkup Initiative: encourages inclusion of brief mental health screenings in regular check ups with primary care doctors for early identification of mental health issues and connect families with appropriate resources
- Solutions for Youth and Families Warm Line: helps individuals find appropriate mental resources in the community
- Collaborative Care Community Model: "best practices" for youth transitioning to or from hospitals or residential care and decrease setbacks and days missed from school
Comfort Zone Camp, Inc.
AKA (Also Known As):
CZC, Comfort Zone, Comfort Zone Camp
Address:
7201 Glen Forest Drive
Suite 301
Richmond, VA 23226
Suite 301
Richmond, VA 23226
Hours:
Camps run from Friday afternoons to Sundays
Phone:
Fax:
(804) 377-3433
Title:
CEO
CZC hosts weekend camps for children 7-17 who have lost a parent, sibling or primary caregiver. Grieving children are paired with a Big Buddy for the weekend as a mentor, friend and safe haven.
Camp provides coping tools and a community of peers who understand loss of a significant loved one and helps campers identify tools and coping skills to aid them in the grieving process.
Commission for Quality of Care, NYS
AKA (Also Known As):
Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, NYS
Address:
401 State Street
Schenectady, NY 12305
Schenectady, NY 12305
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8 am-4:30 pm
Phone:
Commission for Quality of Care is an oversight agency for the care of people with mental retardation or other mental disabilities. It reviews reports of child abuse and deaths of these clients. It handles complaints about their care. It can put clients in touch with the appropriate local CAP and VESID programs. Its Surrogate Decision Making Program provides legal permission for surgery and other medical care for a mentally incompetent person when no other legal representative is available.
The Commission:Investigates complaints, allegations of abuse and unusual or unnatural deaths in mental hygiene facilities;
Performs policy analysis and cost effectiveness studies as well as fiscal investigations;
Participates on statewide planning panels to assure public policies afford people with disabilities full opportunity to exercise rights accorded all New Yorkers;
Assists individuals with disabilities, their parents and other advocates, in exercising their rights and accessing services;
Provides assistance and informational materials to interested parties and the general public on a range of issues including: disability awareness and rights, diversity, assistive technology and reasonable accommodations;
Maintains a toll-free help line and offers assistance to callers on disability issues;
Administers the Surrogate Decision Making Committee (SDMC) program, whose volunteer panels make decisions about major medical care on behalf of persons in residential programs;
Provides Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities (TRAID), funds 12 Regional TRAID Centers and operates an assistive technology equipment exchange program; and,
Contracts with and coordinates a network of local advocacy agencies which provides advocacy services on behalf of individuals and groups.
The Commission:
Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped, New York State
Address:
The Atrium
100 South Salina Street, Suite 105
Syracuse, NY 13202
100 South Salina Street, Suite 105
Syracuse, NY 13202
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-5 pm
Phone:
Fax:
(315) 423-5416
Title:
District Manager
The Commission provides services for legally blind individuals. Vocational Rehabilitation Services include evaluation, counseling, sponsorship in college & other training programs, low vision services, job training, rehabilitation teaching and mobility instruction.
There are special services for children and older adults. The Commission offers counseling to people under age 14 and their families and consultation for agencies, institutions and schools serving the legally blind.
Community Dispute Resolution Center
AKA (Also Known As):
CDRC
Address:
171 East State Street (Center Ithaca)
Room 105-1
Ithaca, NY 14850
Room 105-1
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 9 am-4 pm. Mediations scheduled anytime.
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Fax:
(607) 275-9225
Email:
Title:
Executive Director
The Community Dispute Resolution Center(CDRC) provides an alternative for resolving disputes through mediation. Mediation is convenient, confidential and generally free of cost. Mediators do not impose a solution but help disputing parties work through their shared problem and achieve resolution.
Mediation is useful in almost any sort of conflict:
- parent-teen conflict
- custody and visitation
- disagreements between neighbors
- workplace disputes
- issues between schools and parents involving special education or other sensitive matters
- small claims court
- agricultural cases
- conflicts involving the elderly or their families and caregivers
Community Dispute Resolution Center, Education and Training Services
AKA (Also Known As):
CDRC
Address:
120 West State Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hours:
At Client's request
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Fax:
(607) 275-9225
Email:
Title:
Executive Director
Conflict management workshops for children, youth and adults are designed to build skills for successfully managing conflict and difficult conversations. Mediation skill training is a more intensive immersion into conflict theory and skill development necessary for mediating conflict in the workplace.
Trainers design and facilitate age-appropriate training agendas, tailored to clients' content and scheduling needs, to encourage application of skills to real-life situations.
Workshops and trainings include:
- mediation skill training
- managing conflict in the workplace
- peer mediation training
- adult conflict management workshops
- in-service presentations
- volunteer mediation training (offered as needed)
Community Dispute Resolution Center, Mediation & Dispute Resolution Service
AKA (Also Known As):
CDRC
Address:
120 West State Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca, NY 14850
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Fax:
(607) 275-9225
Email:
Website:
Mediation is a voluntary and confidential processes, structured to foster positive communication and increase understanding. An impartial third party helps those involved in communicating effectively and considering other perspectives. Mediation Programs Include: Parenting Plan Mediation, Parent-Teen (Family) Mediation, Elder Mediation, Permanency Mediation, Agricultural Mediation, and Land-lord/Tenant.
Community Recreation Center, Inc., The Rink
AKA (Also Known As):
The Rink, The Field
Address:
1767 East Shore Drive
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hours:
Check website for times for various recreation activities
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Fax:
(607) 277-1693
Title:
Manager
The Rink is a non-profit, community-funded and supported indoor ice complex with bleacher seating for 600, rest rooms, locker rooms and showers, concession stand, pro shop, and convenient parking. The Rink provides recreational ice skating and programs to all ages and ability levels.
CompassionNet
CompassionNet works to reduce stress and improve quality of life for families with a child who has a life-threatening illness. Case managers provide:
Referrals can come from families, health care providers or community agencies, but referral forms require a physician's signature.
- advocacy
- emotional support
- links to community resources
- access to various therapies
- problem-solving
- assistance with
- transportation
- prescription costs
- co-pay costs
- respite care
- home care
Referrals can come from families, health care providers or community agencies, but referral forms require a physician's signature.
Compos Mentis
AKA (Also Known As):
Compos Mentis: Working Toward Wellness
Address:
3012 Garrett Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hours:
Monday - Friday, 9Am to 3PM
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Email:
Website:
Compos Mentis is a not-for-profit organization that offers a haven for adults who have been diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or another mental illness. Besides gardening, farming, and other outdoor activities, time is devoted to recreation, discussions, and individual goal setting. Compos Mentis is not a treatment program. Participants are required to see their own psychiatrist and therapist for assistance making decisions about their treatment. Compos Mentis operates Mon-Fri from morning to mid- afternoon with some evening activities. Participants commute from their own homes. Compos Mentis is currently a seasonal program, running May-October. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis during the season, though individuals who participate for the entire season seem to benefit most. A commitment of at least one month is required.
Conifer Park
Conifer Park is a private, inpatient chemical dependency treatment facility with treatment programs provided by professionally-licensed staff in medicine, psychiatry, nursing, social work and addiction counseling. Programming combines the latest in evidence-based practices and 12-step philosophies outlined by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA), as well as considering each client's individual needs.
Special programs for:
- adolescent
- inpatient rehabilitation
- Latino populations
- detoxification/crisis services
- family programs
- dual diagnosis/MICA services
- pain management
- activities/recreation therapy
- women's groups
- dual-focus programs
- relapse prevention
- adolescent treatment
- 12-step groups
- trauma
- anger management
- abuse
- spirituality
- medical aspects
Coping with the Loss of Your Pet
AKA (Also Known As):
Pet Loss Support Group
Hours:
4th Tuesday of every month, 7 pm-8:30 pm
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Email:
Title:
Group Facilitators
The Coping With the Loss of Your Pet Group is a professionally facilitated gathering that provides education about coping with loss and emotional support. Sessions encourage participants to pay tribute to their pets and provide support to each other by sharing their stories. Animal companions who share our homes are often cherished family members. When a companion animal dies, disappears, or is given away the grief may be difficult to handle. One way to cope is by being with other others who are grieving a similar loss. Participants are encouraged to bring a picture or other memento of their pet.
The group's facilitators have created an on-line Facebook community for those who wish to pay tribute to their departed animal companions and support each other. Found at facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=166532380028244 the site recognizes that sorrow is a normal and natural reaction to the loss of a cherished animal companion and gives individuals a place where they can share their emotions about the loss of their animal companion.
Cornell Cooperative Ext of T.C., Consumer & Financial Management
Address:
615 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hours:
September-May: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm; June-August: Monday-Friday, 8 am-4 pm; Consumer Helpline: Monday-Friday, 10 am-2 pm
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Fax:
(607) 272-7088
Email:
Title:
Extension Educator
Consumer and Financial Management helps consumers search options for managing their resources and for ways to prevent or resolve consumer issues.
The Consumer Helpline offers coaching and information on:
- landlord/tenant issues
- housing maintenance and indoor air quality
- merchandise selection and care
- lemon laws
- consumer rights and responsibilities in the market place
- credit and financial management
- health insurance options
- indoor air quality
- radon
- lead paint
- asbestos
- moisture and ventilation
- general home maintenance
Cornell Cooperative Ext of T.C., Family/Parenting Education
Address:
615 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14850
Ithaca, NY 14850
Hours:
September-May: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm; June-August: Monday-Friday, 8 am-4 pm
Area Served:
tompkins
Phone:
Fax:
(607) 272-7088
Title:
Extension Educator
The Family/Parenting Education Program offers an extensive list of workshops throughout the year.
- Parenting Skills Workshop Series fosters family communication skills through eight hands-on, interactive sessions. Participants identify ways to learn and use the skills of encouragement, can do, choices, self-control and respecting feelings. FREE classes, snacks and childcare.
- Parenting Styles workshops explore parenting styles and discipline, child development, cultural influences and environmental issues to help parents raise competent, capable and proud children. This six-session series complements the Parenting Skills Workshops.
- Parent Education Network provides useful information for parents with toddlers, teens and foster care children and other caregivers of these populations.
- Stone Soup workshops, including Thriving With Your Spirited Child, focus on raising children with special social/emotional needs and are advised by local parents.
- Parents of Special Needs Children Support Group meets in Groton. Contact Elizabeth Wolf at ebw52@cornell.edu for details.
- Parenting Skills Facilitated Visits pairs a parenting educator with parent(s) and children who are working with the Tompkins County Department of Social Services' Children's Services Unit.
- Parenting Educator Facilitator trainings take place annually for those wanting to use the curricula to increase availability of quality parenting education in our community.
- Tompkins County Coalition for Families builds a supportive community for all children and families through an ad-hoc group of organizations and citizens meeting from 8:30 to 9:30 am the third Thursday at CCE-Tompkins.
