65 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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The Berks County Student Assistance Program, known as SAP, is a mandated team process in schools that identifies students who are struggling with issues such as substance use and mental health…
From Council on Chemical Abuse
The Daniel Boone Area School District runs a Student Assistance Program, called SAP, a school-based team that helps families connect with school and community resources when a child is struggling.…
From Daniel Boone Area School District
The Schuylkill Valley School District runs a Student Assistance Program, known as SAP, that identifies students who are having behavior or academic difficulties that stand in the way of their…
From Schuylkill Valley School District
West Lawn
The Student Supports and Services Department at Wilson School District covers the parts of a student's school experience outside the classroom curriculum. That includes registration and child…
From Wilson School District
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs TEEN, a group mentoring program for young people ages 13 and older who are already clients of Big Brothers Big Sisters, whether they are matched with a…
From Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County
Fleetwood Area School District runs a Title I program at three of its schools to give extra academic help to students who need it. The district describes the purpose of Title I-A as improving the…
From Fleetwood Area School District
Lorane Elementary School and Jacksonwald Elementary School in the Exeter Township School District use federal Title I money to give students extra instruction on top of their regular classes, based…
From Exeter Township School District
Countywide
Family Promise of Berks County runs the U Turn Program, which offers direct support and intensive case management for unaccompanied and homeless youth in Berks County through a Drop-In Center. Young…
From Family Promise of Berks County
Reading
The Education and Outreach Department at Safe Berks offers free programs that raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault and work to prevent it, and it runs Camp Safe Berks, a free…
From Safe Berks
Countywide
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County runs COUL, the Club of Unmatched Littles, a group mentoring program that holds supervised activities every week for children who are enrolled with the agency…
From Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County
Reading
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
Countywide
Service Access and Management takes Early Intervention referrals for children through an online form at wellness.sam-inc.org/ei_referral. Berks is one of the counties you can choose for the child's…
From Berks County Mental Health / Developmental Disabilities Program
Countywide · Taking applications
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
Countywide
The Exeter Township School District publishes the ETSD Resource Guide, an online list of places in Berks County and nearby counties that offer mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, food…
From Exeter Township School District
West Lawn
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.