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Provide Food, clothing, household items and crisis financial aid for families in need, in the lake area of Bedford, Franklin, and Pittsylvania counties.

A comprehensive additiction treatment center. Provide outpatient treatment and care for patients who are battling drug or alcohol addiction. Incorporates medication-assisted treatment (MAT), along with individual counseling, group therapy, social service support, and work on co-occurring disorders.

Pulaski Daily Bread: The First Presbyterian Church has hosted Pulaski Daily Bread an ecumenical program that serves a free mid-day community meals, to anyone who presents themselves.

Community Health Worker trained in public health to serve as a bridge between neighbors, health care systems, and state health departments. Provides: *Referrals for community resource assistance *Informational Community Clinics/Educational Talks/ Health-Related Guest Speakers *Representation at Resource and/or Health Fairs

The term Vital Records refers to birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates. The LENOWISCO Health District can provide certified copies of vital records to individuals permitted by law to make such a request, daily Monday through Friday from 8:00AM to 4:00PM except for state holidays.

Provides a continuum of home, community and school based programs including: Intensive In-Home Services, Home Based Counseling, Therapeutic Day Treatment, Mental Health Support, Substance Abuse Services, 7 Challenges, Adolescent Sex Offender Services, Parental Sensei Services, and Therapeutic Mentoring.

VFS Intensive In-Home Services are designed to improve family dynamics, preventing out of home placement and assisting those returning home from out of home placement (group home, foster home, juvenile detention, emergency shelter, psychiatric hospitalization and residential facilities) other components of service include providing therapeutic interventions, family and individual therapy, care coordination and emergency assistance.

A full-service regional library.

Identifies, assesses, and provides services to children and families in an effort to protect children, preserve families, whenever possible, and prevent further maltreatment. Child Protective Services is non-punitive in its approach and is directed toward enabling families to provide adequate care for their children. Local departments of social services are responsible for receiving reports of abuse and neglect; conducting investigations to determine the validity of the CPS reports; and providing services that enhance child safety and prevent further abuse and neglect to families and children.

Provides assistance to citizens of Smyth County with programs fighting poverty, neglect, and abuse, and strengthening community and self-sufficiency

Support group for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Separate sessions for children are held during the same hours. Call for directions and child care information. Child care is provided.

The Central Virginia Regional Library serves as a lifelong learning resource by providing access to information and assisting in its use for personal and community development. The library will meet informational needs and assist with educational, civic, and cultural activities using resources, classes, and programs.

The Building Development Division (BDD) enforces the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code to ensure the buildings are safe. BDD deal specifically with reviewing building construction plans and specifications, issuing building construction permits, performing critical building construction inspections, and ensuring building code compliance.

Sells pre-owned clothing and accessories, household items, furniture, books and toys at low thrift prices. Occasionally, new items are available. Families suffering severe loss may apply for a voucher of clothing. Donations needed include clothing in good condition, shoes and accessories, household items, books, furniture in good condition, and working appliances.

Provides emergency food assistance to needy families. Serves the zip code 22827 only.

Provides a public preschool educational program for children age 2-5 with physical and/or intellectual disabilities.

No Cost Naloxone (Narcan) Naloxone is a nasal spray medication that can be used in an emergency to reverse the effects of an overdose by opioids, like prescription painkillers, heroin, or fentanyl. If you or someone you know is at an increased risk for an overdose, you should carry Naloxone and keep it at home. Naloxone is safe an easy to use and can prevent potentially fatal overdoses. All LFHD locations have the ability to train and distribute free Naloxone nasal spray to community members. An appointment is not needed to become trained and acquire Naloxone from a health department. Fentanyl Test Strips Fentanyl Test Strips (FTS) are a way for a person to test any drugs for the presence of fentanyl in order to prevent overdose from fentanyl. FTS use a small amount of the drug in question along with water in order to test whether fentanyl is present in the drug supply. FTS do not measure the quantity of fentanyl in the drug supply or if the supply contains other drugs of concern. The LFHD health department locations have fentanyl test strips, provided at no cost, for community members.

Care management aims to individualize health care to meet each patient's specific needs.

Examiners provide technical assistance and training, evaluate and analyze evidence, interpret results, and provide expert testimony related to the full spectrum of physical evidence recovered from crime scenes. Also provides forensic training opportunities.

Oxford House, Inc. is a network of self-run, self-supported recovery homes for members recovering from alcohol and substance abuse throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia (DC). We provide separate houses for men and women, and some houses accept children with parent. When an individual is accepted for membership in an Oxford House, there is no time limit on how long he or she can live there, but the use of alcohol or drugs or non-payment of rent will result in expulsion. There is no clean time required to move into an Oxford House. All houses are near local transportation including buses and subways. Wheelchair accessibility varies by location.

Provides a variety of services to meet specific counseling needs.

May provide limited assistance if funding is available.

Offers affordable classes that provide effective training opportunities and self-development, offer enrichment opportunities and classes in world languages and career and technical education, including health and medical classes. In-person and online classes.

Provides the community with regional disaster planning and coordination of safety committees. Also offer the community emergency medical training at a simulation center for a flat fee.

Emergency housing needs.