The Ohio Benefit Bank

Neighbors helping neighbors

1-800-648-1176

www.ohiobenefits.org

Trained counselors are available where you live, work, play, and pray. Call today to check your eligibility and find a site near you:

• Prescription Assistance
• Access to Tax Credits
• Food Assistance
• Medical Coverage
• Assistance with utilities
• And other community supports

Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies

Community Action Partnership

Helping People. Changing Lives.

http://www.oacaa.org/directory.html

The Community Services Network is made up of more than 1,100 local, private, non-profit and public agencies that work to alleviate poverty and empower low-income families in communities throughout the United States.

Social Welfare Services

Find social and welfare services in your area by entering your zip code at this web site:

http://www.socialwelfareservices.org/Ohio/

Dianne R. Newman, Attorney at Law
Sternberg, Newman, Shifren & Associates

411 Wolf Ledges Parkway #300
Akron, Ohio 44311
330.762.6474
email newdab@aol.com

Specializing in Social Security Disability law working with seniors and the disabled in Ohio to secure their entitlements from Social Security.

VISION
To improve the quality of life of the poor and underserved so they can live to their fullest potential:

Ombudsman
Stark County

1550 Corporate Woods Pkwy

Uniotown, Ohio 44685

Phone; 1-800-421-7277 or 330-896-9172

Community Health Center

Website; http://www.commhealthcenter.org/

American Diabetes Association
1815 West Market Street
Suite 108
Akron, OH, 44313
(330) 835-3149
(330) 835-3181 fax
1 888 DIABETES

WEBSITE; http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp

The mission of the Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

To fulfill this mission, the American Diabetes Association funds research, publishes scientific findings, provides information and other services to people with diabetes, their families, health professionals and the public. The Association is also actively involved in advocating for scientific research and for the rights of people with diabetes

Community Health Foundation
1237 Lincoln Way East
Massillon, Oh. 44646

Phone 330.837.6864
Fax 330.837.3639

website;

The Community Health Foundation is organized and will operate for the exclusive purpose of engaging in charitable, educational and scientific activities to specifically enhance the quality of life for members of the communities of Stark, Wayne and Tuscarawas Counties in Ohio, by educating, promoting and supporting the health of members of those communities. Its assets shall be devoted to initiatives and programs that promote physical, emotional and mental health of members in that community and also initiatives and programs, which further the preventive health care of those members in the communities.

The Health Plan offers a complete line of managed care products and services designed to provide clients with innovative healthcare benefits at a reasonable cost. These include:

• Fully Insured Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
• Fully Insured Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
• Fully Insured Point-of-Service (POS)
• SecureCare Medicare Advantage Plans
• Self-funded Health Plans (EPO, PPO, POS, HMO)
• Exclusive Stop Loss Coverage
• Medicare Select Plans – A, C, D and F are available
• Mountain Health Trust – W.V. Medicaid
• Ohio Workers' Compensation Programs
• Self-funded Workers' Compensation programs
• Complete VEBA Administration and TPA Services
• Access to many ancillary benefits such as group term life, AD & D, STD, LTD, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drugs and COBRA Administration

MGA

Other Guardianship Programs in Ohio

The Community Health Center is committed to enhancing the quality of life by providing a diverse, holistic, patient-centered continuum of care. Our innovative and effective services include addiction treatment, behavioral and primary healthcare, wellness, prevention and housing programs that are responsive to the needs of the community. We have been serving Northeast Ohio since 1974.

FOUNDATIONS

WRAP

1330 MARKET NORTH

CANTON, OHIO 44714

Ph:  330-454-2888
Contact:  LaToya

WRAP is a structured system for monitoring uncomfortable and distressing symptoms. WRAP works through using planned responses, reducing, modifying, or eliminating those symptoms.

People with all kinds of health conditions and even some who have no significant complaints, but want to stay healthy, have found this system to be valuable.

WRAP allows each participant to write their own system that can be updated regularly. It enhances existing treatments, and gives friends and families tangible ways to be helpful. Finally, WRAP develops specific action plans, cultivates personal empowerment and self acceptance.

Meals On Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties
2363 Nave Street SE
Massillon, OH 44646
Phone: (330) 832-7220 / 800-466-8010 ? Fax: (330) 832-7425

http://www.mow-starkwayne.org/index.htmlindex

Welcome to Meals on Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties
  
For almost 35 years, Meals On Wheels of Stark & Wayne Counties has been serving homebound and nutritionally at risk individuals across the two-county area. Since the inception of the agency, more than 9 million meals have been served to individuals throughout our community and that service continues daily, Monday through Friday, as more than 2,000 meals are served up.

Our service provides much more than a hot meal.  Our volunteers are often a homebound client’s only daily contact, so we make sure any concerns are immediately brought to the attention of the closest family member or emergency contact.  Lives have been saved because of the quick response of dedicated volunteers and staff.  We offer peace of mind, as well as nutritional support.
 
Service is available to ANY homebound individual, regardless of age. Depending upon eligibility, reduced costs are available.  New clients can be processed within two
working days.

We offer regular and diabetic meals and all are low salt/ sodium and low fat. Hot meals, frozen meals, sack suppers and breakfasts are available.  We also provide a variety of liquid supplements, which require a physician’s referral.                

Simply EZ

Home Delivered Meals

Fresh, Healthy Meals, Delivered Weekly

http://www.simplyez.net/index.phpindex

Simply EZ has been recognized numerous times by the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging for Exemplary Performance in Providing Home Care Services.

We deliver more than 25,000 meals per week to over 47 counties in Ohio. Our weekly visits bring a variety of meals including low-sugar and low sodium choices as well as adhering to sensitive dietary restrictions. Our portions are freshly sealed for easy heat and serve.

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Tri - County Independent Living Center Inc.

(330) 762-0007 (Voice) 1-800-750-0750 (Ohio Relay) (330) 762-7416 (FAX)

Tri-County Independent Living Center, Inc.

680 East Market Street
Suite 205
Akron, Ohio 44304

Monday through Friday
8:00 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.
(330) 762-0007 (Voice)

Calls made at other times are answered by voice mail.

1-800-750-0750 (Ohio Relay)
(330) 762-7416 (FAX)

Services Offered

There are no fees or age requirements for services which are provided without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or disability to persons who reside in Summit, Stark, or Portage Counties.

OM-CDC

Ohio Multi-County Development Corporation

www.omcdc.org

Community Mediation Center of Stark County

http://www.mediatestarkcounty.org/

401 Tuscarawas Street West

Suite 200

Canton, Ohio 44702

Phone 330-430-9502

Fax 330-430-9505

Office Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Mediations can be scheduled outside of the normal business hours.

Mission Statement

To mediate disputes, teach confilct resolution skills, and conduct public education.  The goal is to prevent or reduce the hamful physical, and emotional and economic effects of conflict between individuals, families, neighborhoods and organizations in Start County.

Stark County Mental Health And Recovery Services Board

http://www.starkmhrsb.org/

800 Market Avenue

Suite 1150

Canton, Ohio 44702

Phone: 330-455-6644

Fax: 330-455-4242

Crisis Intervention and Recovery Center

330-452-6000

24 Hour Domestic Violence Hotline

330-453-SAFE (7233)

The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Stark County enriches lives through wellness and recovery by partnering with service provider agencies in the areas of mental health and alcohol and drug addiction prevention, intervention and treatment. The members of the Board, as well as staff employed by the Board, are committed to ensuring that all mental health or alcohol and drug prevention, intervention and treatment services are of the highest quality possible.

Alcohol and Drug Programs:

• universal, indicated and selected prevention services

• intervention services

• outpatient treatment

• intensive outpatient treatment

• residential treatment

• sub-acute detoxification

Mental Health Services:

• 24-hour crisis intervention and assessment

• community-based treatment

• inpatient care in psychiatric hospitals

• case management

• residential services

• vocational services

• consultation, education and prevention services

The Early Childhood Resource Center

http://www.ecresourcecenter.org/contact.shtml

3114 Cleveland Avenue N.W.
Canton, OH 44709

Phone: 330-491-3272
Fax: 330-491-0334

Stark County Save our Homes Coalition

http://www.co.stark.oh.us/internet/HOME.DisplayPage?v_

page=SaveOurHomes

Call 211 or a United Way-funded information and referral service.
Or call the national helpline at 1-888-995-HOPE (4673).

The Stark County "Save our Homes" (SOH) Coalition welcomes you to our foreclosure Prevention website. The SOH Coalition brings together elected officials, government agencies, housing counseling agencies, banks, non-profits organizations, professional associations, realtors, non-bank lenders, attorneys, brokers, and many others with the goal of providing prevention education and assistance to homeowners and future homeowners who are or may be subject to predatory, deceptive, and fraudulent lending practices.

Predatory mortgage lending practices and foreclosures have significant and destructive impact on our community assets and resources, neighborhoods, and on the Stark County homeowners.

The Stark County SOH Coalition Foreclosure Prevention Partnership works to educate and reach out to the community and provides foreclosure assistance initiatives, consumer-based financial education and a support system for homeowners who seek to refinance, and future home purchasers who seek to buy homes.

If you are in need of assistance, please use the information on this website or contact the United Way 211 for additional information and referral. You can contact the United Way by dialing 211 or (330)-491-9997 .

Help is just a phone call away. So act now to save your home