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PA CareerLink Berks County runs an In-School Youth Employment Program that places young adults in paid work experiences with local employers. It serves young adults 16 to 24 years of age who are a…
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Threshold Rehabilitation Services runs Pre-Employment Transition Services, which supports students by developing their job skills through direct experience. The program has two parts. Job shadowing…
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Reading Area Community College runs a state program called KEYS, short for Keystone Education Yields Success, that helps people who get Cash Assistance or Food Stamps attend college and finish a…
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The Literacy Council of Reading-Berks runs free English as a Second Language classes where adults learn and practice English vocabulary, literacy, and conversation skills. The classes are a well…
From Literacy Council of Reading-Berks
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Reading Area Community College offers free classes that prepare adults to take the GED test of high school equivalency. The classes meet both days and evenings at different locations throughout the…
From Reading Area Community College
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Berks County Community Foundation runs one universal scholarship application: a single online form that matches your answers to the scholarship or scholarships for which you qualify. The 2026…
From Berks County Community Foundation
Penn Township
Berks Community Health Center is your child's medical home both for when they are sick and well, from infancy through adolescence. Board-certified family physicians or nurse practitioners care for…
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Berks Community Health Center offers your entire family primary and preventive health care services, from newborn visits through care for senior citizens. Your primary care provider and their whole…
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Berks Community Health Center (BCHC) gives free pregnancy testing at all of its health center locations. You do not need an appointment, and you do not have to be a BCHC patient. This is for anyone…
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Maternal and Family Health Services, known as MFHS, offers confidential reproductive health care for you and your partner, and a separate free program that connects a pregnant person with a personal…
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Pennie, Pennsylvania's health insurance marketplace, offers free help from certified assisters who walk you through a Pennie application in person, by phone, or virtually at no cost to you.…
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Berks Encore has trained PA MEDI counselors and volunteers who explain the basics of Medicare, how to enroll, how you can supplement your Medicare benefits, what Medicare coverage will cost and what…
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PA MEDI, run by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, is a statewide service where specially trained certified counselors answer Medicare questions and help you compare coverage, enroll and file…
From Pennsylvania Department of Aging
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The Pennsylvania Department of Aging runs PACE and PACENET, two prescription assistance programs that offer low-cost prescription medication to qualified residents age 65 and older. They work with…
From Pennsylvania Department of Aging
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The PACE Clearinghouse is a program supported by PACE that helps adults in Pennsylvania find local, state and national programs for prescriptions and other needs. Trained staff listen to what you…
From PACE Clearinghouse
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health runs 59 State Health Centers across the state where residents can get immunizations, tuberculosis testing and treatment, confidential HIV and STD services, and…
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The Berks County Area Agency on Aging runs the Health & Wellness Program, a set of workshops for older Pennsylvanians on health promotion and disease prevention. The classes focus on health risk…
From Berks County Area Agency on Aging
Allentown
The Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement Program keeps a directory of the organizations it contracts with around the state, including a list of refugee health screening providers with their addresses…
From Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement Program
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Co-County Wellness Services has a staff of Prevention Specialists who provide information about sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, to the community. If you are hosting a health related…
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Safe Berks has an Education and Outreach Department, and its community educators offer programs to raise awareness and to prevent domestic and sexual violence. The department also runs Camp Safe…
From Safe Berks
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The Council on Chemical Abuse, the Berks County agency known as COCA, points people who need help with drug or alcohol use to a 24/7 Drug & Alcohol Hotline at (484) 628-HOPE (4673). The hotline is…
From Council on Chemical Abuse
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Safe2Say Something is a youth violence prevention program run by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General that takes anonymous tips about someone who may be a threat to themselves or others. The…
From Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
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Service Access & Management, Inc. (SAM) runs a Base Service Unit in Berks County that handles authorizations for many types of county-funded services and offers walk-in services for people who need…
From Service Access & Management
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The County of Berks runs the Behavioral HealthChoices program, which pays for mental health and substance use disorder treatment for people in Berks County who have Medical Assistance (Medicaid).…
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The Berks County Student Assistance Program, known as SAP, is a team process in schools that identifies students struggling with things like substance use and mental health concerns and helps them…
From Council on Chemical Abuse
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Berks Counseling Center has case managers who help clients stay in recovery and get to the medical, social, legal, educational and other services they need, with extra programs for women and women…
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Berks Counseling Center offers outpatient and intensive outpatient counseling, case management, psychiatric evaluation and medication support for mental health concerns at its office on Penn Street…
From Berks Counseling Center
Penn Township
Berks Community Health Center runs an Integrated Behavioral Health program that gives its medical patients short-term counseling for emotional and mental health needs. A Behavioral Health Specialist…
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Service Access & Management, Inc. runs a Certified Peer Specialist program that connects people diagnosed with a serious mental illness to someone who has lived through mental illness themselves and…
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Easy Does It runs a set of daily recovery and life skills groups for residents of its program in Leesport, covering everything from morning meditation to budgeting, anger management and relapse…
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The Council on Chemical Abuse runs Recovery Support Services, which pairs people in Berks County who are struggling with substance addiction with certified Recovery Specialists who are themselves in…
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Berks TASC, the Treatment Access and Services Center, runs a peer-to-peer Recovery Support Services program in which Certified Recovery Support Specialists work with people in the early stages of…
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Peerstar matches adults in Pennsylvania with a Certified Peer Specialist, someone who has lived through their own mental health challenges and is trained to use that experience to support others in…
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Berks Counseling Center in Reading pairs people with peer specialists who have been through their own recovery from substance use or mental health disorders and who help them stay engaged in…
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The Greater Reading Mental Health Alliance LOSS Team offers support and referrals to people bereaved by suicide. Volunteers include people who have experienced a suicide loss. Use the referral form…
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Berks Community Health Center offers Medication Assisted Treatment, an outpatient program that uses Suboxone, Sublocade and Vivitrol to treat alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, nicotine…
From Berks Community Health Center
Wyomissing
Caron Treatment Centers runs an outpatient treatment center in Wyomissing for teens and adults seeking help with substance use, gambling addiction and mental health conditions. The programs also…
From Caron Treatment Centers
Wyomissing
New Directions Treatment Services treats substance use and other behavioral health problems at its Berks County office in Wyomissing, and describes what it provides as whole-person focused…
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Berks Counseling Center in Reading treats drug and alcohol use with outpatient counseling, and has done so for more than 40 years. The center offers intensive outpatient, group, family and individual…
From Berks Counseling Center
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BARTA operates a door-to-door shared ride service called BARTA Special Services for senior citizens and people with disabilities in Berks County, and any member of the general public may use it at…
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BARTA runs the Persons with Disabilities Program, a shared ride service for adults with a disability who need transportation in areas that are not served by fixed-route buses, mostly rural areas. If…
From BARTA
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Touch of Kindness Transportation is a private company that drives people to medical appointments in wheelchair vans, stretcher vehicles, and regular vehicles for passengers who walk with help. Its…
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The American Cancer Society's Road To Recovery program gives free rides to cancer-related medical appointments. Trained volunteer drivers pick you up, take you to your appointment, and drop you off…
From American Cancer Society
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Keystone STARS is Pennsylvania's quality rating and improvement system for child care and early learning programs, run by the state Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL). It gives…
From The Pennsylvania Key
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Berks County Head Start, run by the Berks County Intermediate Unit, is a free preschool program for qualifying families, paid for with state and federal funds. It serves 505 students in 30 classrooms…
From Berks County Intermediate Unit
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The Chester County Intermediate Unit runs Early Head Start, an early childhood program for children from birth to age three, with locations in Berks County as well as Chester, Lancaster, Montgomery…
From Chester County Intermediate Unit
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Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts is a state program that provides quality half-day and full-day pre-kindergarten to eligible 3 and 4 year olds in Pennsylvania, at no cost to eligible families. Pre-K Counts…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
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The Family Center at Berks Community Action Program helps parents get their children ready for school and life. Family Development Specialists work with parents to understand the development stages…
From Berks Community Action Program
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CHOR Youth & Family Services runs Nurse-Family Partnership in Berks and Schuylkill counties, a home visitation program that connects first-time mothers with specially trained registered nurses. The…
From CHOR Youth & Family Services
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Community Prevention Partnership runs the Nurse-Family Partnership, which pairs a first-time mother with a specially trained registered nurse who visits her at home through pregnancy and the child's…
From Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County