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Program/Agency Name: 
Chautauqua
County Even Start

Contact Information

Parent Agency:     

Address:                 90 E. 4th Street

                                Dunkirk, NY 14048

Phone:                    716-366-3631

Fax:                        716-366-6232

Email:                   Pbelling@e2ccboces.wnyric.org

Contact Person:    Pam Belling

Director: Judy Calarco

 

Service

Information

Eligibility:  Low literacy levels, working on GED or secondary language.

Fees:  None

Service Area: Chautauqua County

Parent and Child time together:  Y

GED Courses:  N

Parenting classes:  Y

Adult Basic Education:  Y

Child care:  N

ESL classes:  N

Bus routes: N/A

Job training:  N

Home visits:  Y

 

Parent support:  Y

Special Needs:  N

Preschool program:  N

Hearing Impaired:  Y

Transportation cost provided:  N

Vision Impaired:  Y

Stipends provided:  N

Dyslexia:  Y

After school tutoring:  Y

Other:  Family literacy program.

 

 

 

Program/Agency Name: 
Chautauqua Opportunities Inc., Head Start

Contact Information

Parent Agency:      Chautauqua Opportunities

Address:                 55 E. Benton

                                Dunkirk, NY 14048

Phone:                    716-366-5661

Fax:                        716-366-5944

Email:                                  

Contact Person:    Holly Hewitt

Director: Kathy Marsh

Service

Information

Eligibility:  Income guidelines, children age 3 & 4.

Fees:  0

Service Area: Chautauqua County

Parent and Child time together:  Y

GED Courses:  Y

Parenting classes:  Y

Adult Basic Education:  N

Child care:  Y

ESL classes:  N

Bus routes:  Varies

Job training:  Y

Home visits:  Y

Parent support:  Y

Special Needs:  Y

Preschool program:  Y

Hearing Impaired:  Y

Transportation cost provided:  Y

Vision Impaired:  Y

Stipends provided:  N

Dyslexia:  N

After school tutoring:  N

Other:  Comprehensive child development program: ages birth to five years.  Growing Together, pregnant/ parenting teen mothers are serviced through Early Head Start and Head Start.

 

 

Program/Agency Name: 
Child Advocacy
Center of Niagara

Contact Information

Parent Agency:      Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center

Address:                 501 10th Street

                                Niagara Falls, NY 14301

Phone:                    716-285-0045

Fax:                        716-285-8991

Email:                   annmarie.tucker@nfmmc.org          

Contact Person:    Ann M. Tucker

Director: Ann M. Tucker

Service

Information

Eligibility:  Children reported as abused.

Fees:  For medical services only.

Service Area: Niagara County

Parent and Child time together:  N

GED Courses:  N

Parenting classes:  N

Adult Basic Education:  N

Child care:  N

ESL classes:  N

Bus routes:  N

Job training:  N

Home visits:  N

Parent support:  Y

Special Needs:  N

Preschool program:  N

Hearing Impaired:  N

Transportation cost provided:  N

Vision Impaired:  N

Stipends provided:  N

Dyslexia:  N

After school tutoring:  N

Other:  Counseling, crisis intervention.

 

 

 

Program/Agency Name:  
Child and Family
Services

Contact Information

Parent Agency:   

Address:                 330 Delaware Ave.

Buffalo, NY  14202

Phone:                    716-842-2750

Fax:                        716-842-0668

Email:

Contact Person:    John Martin

Director:              Gene Meeks (President)

Service

Information

Eligibility: None

Fees: Sliding scale

Service Area: Erie County

Parent and Child time together:  N

GED Courses: N

Parenting classes:  Y

Adult Basic Education:  N

Child care:  N

ESL classes:  N

Bus routes:  25

Job training:  N

Home visits:  Y

Parent support: N

Special Needs: N

Preschool program: N

Hearing Impaired:  N

Transportation cost provided:  N

Vision Impaired:  N

Stipends provided:  N

Dyslexia:  N

After school tutoring:  N

Other: Counseling, Reach Out for Inner City, Foster Care, Adoption, and Shelter for Battered Women.

 

 

 

Program/Agency Name: 
The Child Care
Coalition

Contact Information

Parent Agency:     

Address:                 2635 Delaware, Suite A

                                Buffalo, NY 14216

Phone:                    716-877-6666

Fax:                        716-877-6205

Email:                   vcooley@wnychildren.org  

Contact Person:    Valerie C. Cooley

Director: Valerie C. Cooley, Ed. D.

Service

Information

Eligibility:  N/A

Fees:  Training fees, free parent referrals.

Service Area: Erie County

Parent and Child time together:  N

GED Courses:  N

Parenting classes:  N

Adult Basic Education:  N

Child care:  N

ESL classes:  N

Bus routes:  Delaware, Kenmore lines.

Job training:  Y (to become home-child care provider).

Home visits:  Y

Parent support:  Y

Special Needs:  Y

Preschool program:  N

Hearing Impaired:  Y

Transportation cost provided:  N/A

Vision Impaired:  Y

Stipends provided:  N

Dyslexia:  Y

After school tutoring:  N

Other:  Child care professional training,technical assistance, grants, parent’s child care and summer camp referrals.

 

 

 

Program/Agency Name: 
 
Children's Hospital-- Jesse Nash Health Center

 

Parent Agency:      Children's Hospital-- Kaleida Health

Address:               608 William Street

                                Buffalo, NY 14206

Phone:                    716-858-7372

Fax:                        716-858-7394

Email:                                  

Contact Person:   Mildred Newuiett (858-7799  T. F. & every other Wednesday)

Director: Patricia Volker

 

Deaconess Family Medicine

Parent Agency:      Children's Hospital-- Kaleida Health

Address:                 1001 Humboldt Parkway

                                Buffalo, NY 14208

Phone:                    716-858-8200

Fax:                        716-858-8238

Email:                                  

Contact Person:   Marge Klein

Director: Jennifer Hamilton

 

Service

Information

Eligibility:  Birth to adult (65+).

Fees:  Most insurance accepted.

Service Area: Erie County

Parent and Child time together:  N

GED Courses:  N

Parenting classes:  N

Adult Basic Education:  N

Child care:  N

ESL classes:  N

Bus routes:  Different routes, zip codes and van service.

Job training:  N

Home visits:  Y

Parent support:  Y

Special Needs:  Y

Preschool program:  N

Hearing Impaired:  N

Transportation cost provided:  Y

Vision Impaired:  N

Stipends provided:  M

Dyslexia:  N

After school tutoring:  N

Other:  Social worker on site, adolescent care, pediatric specialist, well child evaluations, yearly physicals, school sports and camp physicals, ADD evaluations