How can it help me?

The CRD provides instant, easy access to accurate information about Long Island agencies, organizations, and programs:

Find….

• Child care for a working parent
  
• Individual or family counseling
  
• Support group for a parent under stress
  
• Substance abuse treatment
  
• Emergency housing and food services
  
• A speaker for your next community meeting
  
• Internship, community service and volunteer possibilities
  
• Training and education courses
  
• Eldercare services
  
• Debt counseling, bereavement and domestic violence assistance
  
• All the schools, faith organizations, and non-profit agencies in your community
  
• And much more

Benefits

• Free, online, providing 24 -7 availability
  
• Extensive and up-to-date; information expanded and updated on a daily basis. 
  
• User-friendly; search by organization, subject, or keyword.
  
• Searches can be streamlined to limit geographically and by language.
  
• The new Quick Search feature, which is available in addition to the Advanced-Search mode, helps the user to locate frequently searched topics quickly.
  
• Supports potential for greater coordination of services, planning, and needs assessment efforts.
  

: Businesses can help their employees locate help for employees’ personal and family problems as well as education and training opportunities

: School guidance counselors, social workers, nurses and psychologists can locate resource & referral information for students and families within minutes.


:   Students can access information independently and use the CRD for research and to locate volunteer and internship opportunities.


:   Community-based agencies and government departments can use the CRD to support their information & referral activities—freeing staff to spend more time with clients.


:   Hospitals, private practitioners and health care workers can use the CRD to assist with discharge planning and community referrals for the entire family’s needs.