PRONTO - People Helping People

Links

Long Island Cares - www.licares.org

The Mission of Long Island Cares is to bring together all available resources for the benefit of the hungry on Long Island. Long Island Cares provides emergency food where and when it is needed, sponsors programs that help families achieve self-sufficiency, and educates the public about the causes and consequences of hunger on Long Island.

Island Harvest - www.islandharvest.org

Since 1992, Island Harvest has been serving as the bridge between those who have excess food and those who need it… a trained corps of dedicated volunteers rescues surplus food from commercial donors and collects canned and packaged foods from collection campaigns.

Long Island Head Start - www.liheadstart.org

Long Island Head Start provides services to over 1,500 children and their families. In addition to the 16 Head Start sites located across Suffolk County, this organization has three Early Head Start program sites that offer high quality services to pregnant women and infants. All of our Head Start and Early Head Start sites provide on-going comprehensive training and support services to families many areas.

Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. - http://www.familyres.org

Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. was founded in April 1977 by a group of parents and consumer advocates in response to the need for community residential alternatives to the institutionalization of individuals with mental challenges and developmental disabilities. Since that time, Family Residences has established a wide range of services for persons with disabilities residing in either Nassau or Suffolk Counties in New York.