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Provides facilities and parks for a full range of recreational activities, from arts and crafts and aerobics to athletic leagues and leisurely picnics for the Waynesboro community. Visit the web site for a list of current recreational activities.

Catholic Charities' (CCDA) Emergency Assistance program helps people experiencing a temporary financial crisis with rent and/or utility assistance and there is a likelihood that this crisis will not repeat. CCDA work to prevent evictions or the termination of essential utilities. Catholic Charities views an emergency as a crisis that deprives or threatens to deprive a person of basic human needs. Basic human needs include but are not limited to housing, essential utilities (i.e., gas, water, electric, oil for heating).

Provides programs to assist in agricultural development and to assist the farming community. Programs include: aqua-culture, biotechnology, conservation, cooperatives, crop insurance, crop and livestock production, disaster assistance, energy, healthy forest initiative, farm loans and marketing assistance. Administers the Farm Service Agency, Food Safety Inspection Service, Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Agricultural Marketing Services, Foreign Agriculture Service Import/Export Programs, and Rural Development Business Programs, Loans, Grants.

Outpatient behavioral health, mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring programs for children, adolescents, and adults including individual and group psychotherapy, marital and family counseling, pharmacotherapy, crisis service, case management, consultation & educational services, parenting classes, psychiatric consultation, and intensive outpatient alcohol and drug treatment.

Upon request presentations can be provided to the community on various topics in contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases, immunizations, communicable disease, daycare, and health assessment training.

Serves individuals in need of a hot meal and warm hearts. Soup kitchen offered at lunch time on the last Monday of every month from 11:30 - 1:00. Toiletries, clothing, socks and shoes, backpacks and blankets when available are also distributed. Free haircuts when available.

Personal shoppers will suggest apparel, shoes, and accessories complementary to the job/industry in which the client is interviewing. After the interview suiting the client is given interview tips, has their resumes reviewed and, time permitting, undergoes mock interviews with our employment specialists. The client will leave the boutique with one interview-appropriate outfit, a seasonally-appropriate top, shoes, and jewelry and/or a bag, as available and appropriate. After a woman finds a job she returns to Dress for Success for additional clothing that can be mixed and matched to make several outfits, providing her with the foundation for a professional wardrobe.

The Library provides free services to all residents living and working within the county boundaries.

Portsmouth Public Schools provides a high-quality and effective academic kindergarten program for students who will be 5-years old on or before Sept. 30. The students' first few years of school are crucial for building a strong foundation that will carry them throughout their academic careers. Reading readiness skills, hands-on activities and enrichment opportunities are just a few of the key components of the PPS kindergarten program.

Long term nursing home facility.

All immunizations including: vaccines for children; influenza and pneumonia vaccines; information and immunizations for overseas travel.

TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families): Direct payment assistance program for families with children in which the child is deprived of maintenance, care, and guidance due to the absence of a parent or parents or the in-home parent's inability maintenance, care, and guidance.

Operates a Food Pantry on the 1st and 4th Monday of each month.

Free non-therapeutic, professionally facilitated support groups for both adults and teens suffering from depression, anxiety, bipolar, and suicide loss.

TANF is designed to help needy families achieve self-sufficiency and provide financial assistance for families with children in the home who are deprived of parental support. Virginia has received block grants to operate programs that accomplish this.

The Energy Assistance Program (EAP)consists of three components; Fuel Assistance (FA), Coolng Assistance (CA) and Emergency Crisis Assistance (CAP). The FA component is intended to provide supplemental assistance to offset the rising costs of heating expenses. The CAP component is intended to provide assistance with heating equipment needs and emergency fuel outages. Fuel Assistance opens the second Tuesday in October. The last day for applying is the second Friday in November. Main Qualifications: Have a heating need, meet the income and resource levels, include all persons living in the household, live in an eligible living arrangement and meet the citizenship requirements. Crisis Assistance applicants must meet the following: income level, resource level. Deposits: Opens the first working day in November. May only receive once per lifetime per fuel type. (Natural gas, electric and LP gas) Heating Equipment: Opens November 1st or the first working day in November for Replacement, purchase, or repair of primary heating source. Primary Fuel: Opens the first working day in January. It is for those that did not receive fuel assistance. Requires cut off notice for electric and gas. Almost out of fuel oil, wood, coal or island purchased kerosene. Cooling Assistance: Is offered during the beginning in mid-June. Must meet eligibility requirements

Foster Care Services are provided to children who have been entrusted to or placed in the custody of Social Services with the primary goal being of reuniting the child with his/her natural family. The child's family is provided services to help resolve the problems, which caused the child to enter Foster Care.

The Bedford County Commissioner of Revenue is primarily responsible for assessing all property that is taxable by law and to apply the tax rates that are approved by the Bedford County Board of Supervisors. The Commissioner of Revenue also administers the tax relief program for the elderly, disabled, and disabled veterans and the Land Use Assessment Program.

Issues business licenses. Offers assistance with state tax returns. Tax relief for elderly and permanently and/or totally disabled. Assesses personal property and processes real estate assessments and re-assessments. Local short term rental tax, local prepared food and beverage tax, processes State tax returns, assists DMV with State motor Vehicle Rental taxes, assists Board of Equalization on citizens real property complaints, assists state with the Bank Franchise Tax. Offers free state income tax preparation to Amherst County citizens, as well as the necessary forms to file. In order for this office to assist you please provide a completed copy of your Federal tax return, and your W-2's.

Resource Centers are health clinics with a variety of services available in public housing communities and Southwood Apartments. All services are offered to anyone, and cost is based on a financial eligibility sliding sale. The Resource Centers also refer and connect patients to primary care providers and other community services, empowering residents to get connected to the care they need.

Death records are filed at the health department in the county in which the death occurred, not the county in which the person lived. Certified copies can be obtained only by a relative of the deceased or by a representative of a funeral home. Local health departments have death records on file from 1963 to the present. Copies of DEATH records prior to 1963 and all BIRTH records are filed in Richmond and can be obtained by sending the completed request form to the following address: Office of Vital Records P.O. Box 1000 Richmond, Virginia 23218-1000.

New Eyes provides new prescription eyeglasses for low income individuals across the U.S. (two pairs for each child; one pair for adults; every 12 months).

A community information and life-long learning center which provides citizens with the resources to help them develop their intellectual, economic, cultural and educational potential. Children's programming is available throughout the year including a Summer Reading Program.

Magistrate duties include issuing various types of processes such as arrest warrants, summonses, bonds, search warrants, subpoenas, emergency protective orders, mental health detentions and certain civil processes.

A collection of up-to-date resources and information on lupus. The Resource Center educates, empowers and connects anyone to lupus resources, programs and support services.