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A program designed specifically for male and female adolescents (age 13-18) who are experiencing emotional or behavioral problems that are significantly impacting their ability to be successful in the home, school or community. The typical length of stay is 8 to 10 weeks.

Provides vocational education to students. Offers some continuing education to adults and the community at large. Provides GED options. Offers the following course offerings: cosmetology, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration, computer networking hardware operations, culinary arts, practical nursing, welding, building trades, masonry, graphics imaging technology, electricity and cabling, horticulture, manufacturing systems, marketing, collision repair technology, and automotive servicing technology. Night classes are offered in various courses according to demand.

Special Olympics Virginia is a year-round program of sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Through work in sports, health education and community building, Special Olympics is addressing inactivity, injustice, intolerance and social isolation by encouraging and empowering people with intellectual disabilities which leads to a more welcoming and inclusive society.

Provides preventative and restorative dentistry services.

Community health education services and Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. Talks and presentations for topics such as rabies control, HIV/AIDS prevention, nutrition, weight reduction, smoking cessation, stress management and cancer prevention and early detection are provided throughout the district for various groups and civic organizations.

Parent Education and Family Stabilization Courses for Married and Unmarried Parents/Guardians/Grandparents

The Hope Center will assist eligible persons from the city of Petersburg with utilities annually. Persons will be eligible for service based on identifiable needs and current poverty levels.

Provides a public library for the residents of Virginia Beach.

The Adoption Program strives to achieve and maintain adoptive placements for children in foster care whose parent's parental rights have been terminated. Children in the program may range in age from infant to 18 and the goal for the child must be adoption. Adoption assistance may be available to adoptive parents for services and support. A home study will be completed for a foster parent who wishes to adopt a foster child into their home. In addition to foster care case management services, adoption family service workers recruit adoptive families through advertising, adoption parties, and collaboration with other agencies. Staff also supervise adoption placements, make referrals, prepare court reports and attend hearings.

Provides dental services to chldren ages 6 months -18 years. Children DO NOT have to be a student at the school to receive services.

Provides guidance for individuals with serious mental illness who are in recovery. Services teach individuals to manage symptoms, recognize early warning signs, and anticipate stressors. Services provide crisis intervention, supportive counseling, and access to needed resources while helping to prevent hospitalization, and teaching individuals how to maintain a natural support system.

Vocal Virginia speak with the mental health community to drive changes in systems and policies that improve and protect mental health and wellness—and resilience.

Treatment Foster Care (TFC) is foster care with structured therapeutic support for children and youth who have experienced trauma. Treatment foster parents work as a team to create a home environment that is healthy, supportive, and structured.

Provides Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Program (FAMIS). Provides health coverage for children who have not had any health insurance coverage for 6 months. Designed to cover children of working VA families who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and too little to afford private health insurance. For more information on FAMIS, please call Toll-free: FAMIS (866)873-2647, M-F 8AM-7PM and Sa 9AM-12Noon.

Offers benefit programs for income eligible individuals and families as follows: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), SNAP (Food Stamps), Medicaid, State and Local hospitalizations; Auxiliary Grant (AG) and General Relief (GR) for burial or cremation. Provides social service programs for families, children, elderly and disabled such as Child Protective Services (CPS), Adult Protective Services (APS), Foster Care to children, Adoption Services, adult services adoptive and foster home studies, custody investigations, adults and nursing home screenings and placement. Offers fuel assistance based on total income and number of persons in the household. Offers client transportation based on eligibility.

Housing assistance for persons and/or families with low or moderate income, disabilities, elderly, or displacement. Programs administered include HUD, Section 8, rent subsides or VHDA, and low interest mortgage programs.

Provides professional planning and technical resources, a concerted approach to regional cooperation, planning assistance with program delivery, and a forum for the interaction of appointed and elected local government officials and citizens members.

Re-Entry Services focus on the first 3 years post-incarceration.

Area office of Virginia State Police. Important numbers while traveling in Virginia: *Virginia State Police----#77 on cell phone. *Highway Helpline---------5-1-1 or 1-800-367-ROAD (TTY users call 7-1-1). Toll-Free, 24-Hours for latest information on road and traffic conditions or to report unsafe conditions. To view traffic cameras and travel alerts, go to www.virginiadot.org and click on Travel Center.

Certifies clients as eligible for the Northern Virginia Dental Clinic. Clients pay $50 per visit. The clinic provides cleaning, fillings, x-ray, extractions, and root canals. Partials and dentures available for an additional fee. Does not provide bridgework. Offers emergency appointments but there is often a waiting list.

Offers a non-profit, private boarding/day school serving the local area and nations from around the world. The school is divided into a middle school (6-8 grades) and an upper school (9-12 & Post-Graduate) with both high school and 26 hours of college credit in a cooperative arrangement with the coeducation department Shenandoah University. ACCREDITED BY: Southern Association of Colleges & Schools University Senate of the United Methodist Church. LICENSED BY: Virginia State Board of Education.

Reports of child abuse and neglect are investigated. Services are provided to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Provides a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) for all special education children ages two to twenty-one. An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is developed for each child who qualifies for special education services under IDEA. The IEP is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of the individual child. Provides an elementary educational institute and preschool that offers adaptations for test taking, audiological evaluation and diagnosis, and Child Find Service for disabled students.

Offers free transportation for ambulatory cancer patients to treatments and appointments. Rides are subject to volunteer availability.

The Energy Assistance Program consists of three components: Fuel Assistance assists low-income eligible households by supplementing home energy costs. Applications are accepted the second Tuesday in October through the second Friday in November. Crisis Assistance assists low-income households with energy related emergencies. Applications are accepted November 1st through March 15th. Cooling Assistance assists households in acquiring or repairing cooling equipment and /or payment of electric bills to operate cooling equipment. Applications are accepted June 15th through August 15th. Additional information about EAP is available at www.dss.virginia.gov. Apply online anytime at https://commonhelp.virginia.gov.