5 services in Berks County. Safe Berks answers its hotline around the clock and runs the county’s confidential shelter for anyone leaving abuse. The rest of this page is the help for parents: home visiting, parenting classes, the diaper bank, kinship and foster care, and mentors and after-school programs for kids.
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Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center runs Baby Bistro, a monthly gathering where area moms talk about the joys and challenges of breastfeeding and meet with a member of the hospital's…
From Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center
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The Family Center at Berks Community Action Program runs parenting classes that give moms and dads tools to strengthen their parenting skills, using the evidence-based Systematic Training for…
From Berks Community Action Program
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Muhlenberg School District has a Parent & Family Outreach Coordinator, Elizabeth Laviena, and publishes a list of community organizations that help families with food, health care, housing…
From Muhlenberg School District
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United Way of Berks County runs 211, the number to call when you need help finding health and human services in Berks County. A trained information and referral specialist answers your call or text…
From United Way of Berks County
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Wilson School District keeps a section of its website called Recursos en Espanol that gathers district information, videos, guides, forms and documents in Spanish. It was created for the district's…
From Wilson School District
Every rule, cost and phone number here comes from the provider. We are a guide to Berks County, not the program: call before you go. If something is wrong, every service page has a report link, and our corrections policy says what happens next.