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The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue keeps a district office in Reading where staff offer in-person support with state tax matters. The department describes these offices as how it offers support…
From Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
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The Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) gives victims a substitute mailing address so their real home address stays out of public records where the person who harmed them might find it. It is…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
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Safe Berks sends advocates out into the community to meet survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault where they already are, including night court at the Berks County Courthouse. This is the…
From Safe Berks
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The Berks County Law Library, on the 5th floor of the Berks County Courthouse in Reading, keeps a computer with access to Westlaw so people can look up the law themselves. It is a department of the…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
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Berks County Family Court posts custody and divorce forms, local filing instructions and lawyer referral information for people who go to court in Berks County without a lawyer. The forms and…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
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The Protection From Abuse Office of the Berks County courts is where you file for a PFA, a civil order of the court available to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. The order…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
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The Berks County Bar Association's Lawyer Referral Service matches a person who needs a lawyer with an attorney in Berks County who handles their kind of legal problem, such as a foreclosure…
From Berks County Bar Association
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The Victim/Witness Assistance Unit of the Berks County District Attorney's Office helps victims and witnesses of crime, and their immediate family members, through the judicial process. Staff serve…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
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The Berks County Bar Association runs a Legal Fee Dispute Resolution Committee that tries to settle a disagreement between a client and his or her attorney over fees. The committee handles disputes…
From Berks County Bar Association
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Safe Berks works with Berks County healthcare facilities through its Medical Advocacy Partnership Program (MAPP) to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking who are…
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The Berks County Public Defender's Office provides lawyers to people charged with crimes who cannot afford to hire an attorney, including juveniles charged with delinquency. Its attorneys handle…
From Berks County Public Defender
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The Berks County magisterial district courts hear civil claims where the disputed amount is less than $12,000.00, landlord and tenant disputes, and summary offenses, meaning traffic and non-traffic…
From Berks County Magisterial District Courts
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The Victim/Witness Assistance Unit of the Berks County District Attorney's Office helps crime victims open a claim with the Victims Compensation Assistance Program, known as VCAP, which pays back…
From Berks County District Attorney's Office
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Aldea - The People's Justice Center runs a project called CARES, short for Children's Advocacy, Representation & Services. Its attorneys represent unaccompanied minors in immigration and family…
From ALDEA - The People's Justice Center
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Community Justice Project (CJP) runs an immigration legal practice out of its Reading, PA office, and its immigration team is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. The team represents clients…
From Community Justice Project
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Community Justice Project is a nonprofit law office that represents people with limited English proficiency when agencies that receive federal money fail to provide interpretation or translation.…
From Community Justice Project
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HOPE, the Haitian Outreach Program at ALDEA - The People's Justice Center, provides immigration legal aid to Haitians in the Reading area. It is led by native Kreyol-speaking advocates and volunteers…
From ALDEA - The People's Justice Center
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ALMA, which stands for Aldea for Liberation, Mentorship & Advocacy, is the part of Aldea - The People's Justice Center that works with people held in immigration detention. As an EOIR-recognized pro…
From ALDEA - The People's Justice Center
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Aldea - The People's Justice Center runs a Low Bono Community Program that gives immigrants legal representation at rates far below private market costs, with payment plans shaped to each person or…
From ALDEA - The People's Justice Center
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The Pardon Project of Berks County, based at Connections Work in Reading, helps people with a criminal record apply to have that record pardoned in Pennsylvania. It connects people with community…
From Connections Work
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The Main Library of the Reading Public Library is a passport acceptance facility, which means you can fill out a U.S. passport application and hand it in there in person. Passport service is by…
From Reading Public Library
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The Berks County Bar Association posts legal guides and plain language answers to everyday legal questions on its website at berksbar.org, under Downloadable Resources & FAQs. The material comes from…
From Berks County Bar Association
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Mary's Shelter in Reading is the site for the Berks County Diaper Bank, which hands out diapers to families one day each month. The program began as a pilot with five local agencies in 2016 with 15…
From Mary's Shelter
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New Journey Community Outreach runs a clothing center at 138 South 6th Street in Reading where you can come without an appointment. The center is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 am to…
From New Journey Community Outreach
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Hope Rescue Mission gives men staying in its Genesis emergency shelter in Reading access to showers and laundry facilities, along with free clothing and personal care items. These services are part…
From Hope Rescue Mission
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The Salvation Army Reading Citadel runs Adopt-a-Family, a Christmas program that allows local agencies, participating businesses and groups to meet more comprehensive material needs for families…
From The Salvation Army Reading Citadel
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Centro Hispano Daniel Torres publishes a list of helpline numbers for people in the Reading area who need information, and it will set up an appointment with one of its case managers to help you find…
From Centro Hispano Daniel Torres
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The Reentry Resource Center (RERC) is operated by Connections Work and is a single point of contact for people with current or prior justice system involvement who need help getting to community…
From Connections Work
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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 Berks County Intermediate Unit runs ELECT, a free program for pregnant and parenting young people in Berks County schools who are working toward a high school diploma or its equivalent. ELECT is…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
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Berks Community Action Program runs the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Program, which supports, counsels and challenges fathers to become strong and positive role models within their families. The…
From Berks Community Action Program
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Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County runs the Nurse-Family Partnership, which pairs a first-time mother with a specially trained registered nurse who visits her at home through pregnancy…
From Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County
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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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Berks County Children and Youth Services provides adoption services to children in the agency's custody, and points families who want to adopt toward the outside agencies that prepare them. When…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
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Berks County Children and Youth Services approves resource parents, also called foster parents, to care for children the agency places in their homes. A foster family provides care, nurturing and…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
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CHOR Youth & Family Services places children who cannot stay safely at home with foster families in Berks County and surrounding areas, and it trains and supports the adults who open their homes.…
From CHOR Youth & Family Services
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Berks County Children and Youth Services takes reports about children in Berks County who may be abused or neglected, and its staff investigate all reports of child maltreatment in the county. The…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
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Berks County Children and Youth Services works with families in their own homes after a report of child abuse or neglect, so that children can stay safely where they are instead of being placed…
From Berks County Children and Youth Services
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County matches a child with a volunteer adult mentor, called a Big, through its One-To-One Program, which the agency calls its best known program and the cornerstone…
From Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County
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The Berks County Intermediate Unit runs the Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness program, known as ECYEH, which helps children and youth who do not have stable housing get and…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
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The Berks County Intermediate Unit runs an Educational Stability for Foster Care Youth program that provides technical assistance and professional development related to the education of foster care…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
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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
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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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Tec Centro Berks runs a 16-week Culinary Arts program in Reading that teaches kitchen, food service and hospitality skills to people who want to work in commercial kitchens, institutional food…
From Tec Centro Berks
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PA CareerLink Berks County runs a Career Services program for young adults who have finished school and want help finding a job or enrolling in more education. You work with a case manager to build a…
From PA CareerLink Berks County
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PA CareerLink Berks County pairs job seekers with a staff member who helps them build an employment plan and work toward their next job, through Comprehensive Career Services. To take part, you first…
From PA CareerLink Berks County
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EDSI runs workforce programs, including EARN, from an office inside PA CareerLink Berks County at 1920 Kutztown Road, Suite F, Reading, Pennsylvania 19604. PA CareerLink is a partnership of public…
From PA CareerLink Berks County
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PA CareerLink Berks County hosts employers recruiting at its Reading office almost every week. Job seekers can see upcoming recruitments on the events calendar at careerlinkberks.com/events-calendar…
From PA CareerLink Berks County
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The IBEW 743 JATC in Reading trains people for the electrical trade through a four-year inside electrical apprenticeship, with classroom training and 8,000 hours of on-the-job training in…
From IBEW Local 743 JATC electrical apprenticeship
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PA CareerLink Berks County runs short group workshops, called Expanded Career Services, for people who want to sharpen their job seeking and professional skills. Any member of the community looking…
From PA CareerLink Berks County