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Catholic Social Services

Adult & Family Services -
Provides counseling to impact on those problems confronted by adults of all ages.

Court Advocate - Forensic drug and alcohol assessment and counseling program for adults and adjudicated juveniles.


Children's Service Center

Outpatient Services - Provides individual and group psychotherapy and/or drug therapy; crisis intervention, guidance and counseling for parents with or without the child's participation if the child is an infant or severely emotionally disabled.


Domestic Violence Service Center

Adult Counseling - Provides support services to battered women who are either residents of the shelter or hotline callers.  Includes counseling, accompaniment and advocacy.

Emergency Shelter - Provides safe, temporary shelter for battered women and their minor children.


Family Service Association

Guardianship - Provides guardianship for adults adjudicated by the court to be incapacitated.

Community Education and Outreach - Works to prevent family problems by using their group educational process to develop coping skills for the normal stresses of various stages of family life.

Professional Counseling - Promotes healthy personality development and improved coping skills to families under stress.

Help Line - Information and Referral, advocacy, and after hours emergency services.  Brings members of the community and needed services together as efficiently and rapidly as possible.


Jewish Family Services

Counseling - Provides therapeutic counseling programs for family life issues, promoting independence in problem solving, and financial assistance.

Family Life Education - Directs educational programs to strengthen family life and prevent family breakdown.  Provides mutual support and insight about family life through small group discussions.


Victim's Resource Center

Sexual Assault Support - Provides direct services to victims of rape and/or sexual assault such as crisis intervention support; individual and group counseling; police, court and hospital accompaniment; and advocacy.


Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services

Partial Hospitalization - Provides education and therapy to individuals and families suffering from substance abuse/addiction problems.  Program is for individuals needing more than weekly sessions but not in need of in-patient treatment.

Out-Patient - Provides individual and group counseling for persons addicted to alcohol and/or drugs and their families.

United Way of Wyoming Valley
8 West Market Street, Suite 450
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18711
Phone: (570) 829-6711
Fax: (570) 822-0522