Community Help Centre is a volunteer-based, nonprofit organization that provides services, resources, education, training and information to people who are in need of support and to people who are seeking volunteer opportunities in the community. The organization offers a drop-in center and 24-hour hotline and works to coordinate and deliver human services throughout Centre County.

Services include short-term counseling, drug and alcohol intervention, emergency food and shelter, transportation to critical appointments, income-tax assistance, chore assistance and basic needs case management.

Support groups that can be located through the Community Help Centre at 237-5855 or <a href="mailto:info@communityhelpcentre.com">info@communityhelpcentre.com</a>, are marked with an asterisk.

•  *Abortion Recovery Support Group

•  *AIDS Project — 234-7087

•  *Adult Children of Alcoholics — 310-534-1815

•  *Al-Anon and Alateen — 237-5855 or 422-8195

•  *Alcoholics Anonymous — 237-3757

•  Alliance for Families of the Mentally Ill (NAMI) National Alliance on Mental Illness — 238-1983

•  Alzheimer’s Support Group — 237-2550

•  Alzheimer’s Support Group at Centre Crest nursing home — 355-6777

•  American Cancer Society — 800-227-2345 or 238-8908

•  American Heart Association— 800-242-8721 or 238-1301

•  American Red Cross — 237-3162

•  Angel Food Ministries — 422-0531

•  Apprise Health Insurance Counseling Program for Older Persons — 231-7034

•  ARC of Centre County — 238-1444

•  *Arthritis Support Group — 800-842-6026

•  A Woman’s Concern Pregnancy Resource Clinic — 234-7340

•  Brain injury support group — 359-3421, 215-699-2136 or 800-516-8052

•  Breast Cancer Awareness Group — 234-6175

•  *Breast Cancer Support Group

•  *Better Breathers at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital — 359-3421

•  *CAPS discussion group — 863-0395

•  Cancer Survivors’ Association — 237-2120

•  *Caregivers’ Support Group

•  Centre County Drug and Alcohol Program — 355-6744

•  Centre County Christian Home-schoolers Home-school Support Group — 717-930-0467

•  Centre County Mental Health/Mental Retardation and Drug and Alcohol Advisory — 355-6782

•  Centre County Office of Adult Services — 355-6768

•  Centre County Office of Aging — 355-6716

•  Centre County Women’s Resource Center — 234-5222 or 877-234-5050

•  Centre Huntingdon Tapestry of Health — Bellefonte, 355-2762, 355-5472; Philipsburg, 342-6992

•  Childbirth Education Association of State College — 237-4232

•  Child Care Information Services, Child Care Options — 231-1352

•  Child Development and Family Council of Centre County Inc. — 238-5480

•  Children and Youth Services of Centre County — 355-6755

•  Childfind — 800-426-5678

•  Citizens Concerned for Human Life — 237-3213

•  *CoDA (Co-Dependency Anonymous)

•  Community Action Central Pennsylvania — Bellefonte, 355-7501; Millheim,
349-5850; Philipsburg, 342-0404

•  Community Help Centre — State College, 237-5855; Bellefonte, 355-4831; Philipsburg, 342-6165; Millheim, 349-8715

•  *Co-dependents of Sexual Addiction (COSA)

•  *Diabetes Senior Support Group — 237-5855

•  Diabetes Support Group — 231-7095 or 800-342-2383

•  *DivorceCare — 234-0711

•  Domestic Violence Support Group — 877-234-5050 (hotline) or 238-7066 (business)

•  *Domestic Violence Survivors (WRC) State College and Philipsburg

•  *Double Trouble (mental health and addiction)

•  Dual Diagnosis Support Group — 355-1811

•  *Families as Allies (children with mental illness)

•  Family Base (for families with children with mental disorders) — 231-0138

•  Family Counseling Services — 234-2279

•  Family Intervention Crisis Services — 355-3807

•  *Family Literacy

•  Family Services Inc. — 944-3583, ext. 333

•  Family Stroke Support Group — 359-3421

•  Food Bank of State College Area — 234-2310

•  *Freedom from smoking

•  *Friends of Lesbian and Gay Concerns

•  *Fresh start (quit smoking)

•  Gamblers Anonymous — 213-386-8789, 888-424-3577

•  *Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Switchboard of State College Inc. — 237-5855

•  Grieving and Loss Support Group — 364-1412

•  *Head Injury Support Group at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital — 800-842-6026 or 359-3421.

•  Home Nursing Agency’s AIDS Intervention Project — 800-445-6262

•  House of Care — 237-5517

•  Keystone Service Systems, family based mental-health services — 231-0138

•  Kleptomaniacs and Shoplifters Anonymous — bonnie.shirey@yahoo.com

•  *La Leche League — 364-2452

•  *LGBT student alliance

•  *Life Recovery Meetings (serves Christian addicts)

•  *Loving Alternatives

•  Lupus Foundation — 235-1376

•  MADD — 355-1701

•  Marfan Syndrome Support Group — 238-5325

•  Meals on Wheels of State College — 237-8135

•  Mothers & More (The Network for Sequencing Women) — 308-8244

•  *Multiple Sclerosis Support Groups — 359-3421 and 359-8107

•  Multiple Sclerosis Support Group at HealthSouth, Pleasant Gap — 359-3421

•  *Multiracial Family Resource Community

•  Muscular Dystrophy Association — 717-540-4316

•  Nar-Anon Family Support Group — 800-477-6291 or www.nar-anon.org

•  Narconon (drug addictions) — 800-556-8885

•  *Networking Parents (of children who act out)

•  *New Choices (single mothers and displaced homemakers)

•  *New Depressions/Manic Depression (bipolar) Support Group

•  *Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous

•  Ostomy Support Group of Centre County — 234-6195

•  *Overeaters Anonymous — 237-5855

•  Pain management support group — 359-3421

•  Parenting Plus — 237-5731

•  Parent Support Group of the Learning Disabilities Association — 466-7235

•  *Parents Helping Parents (improved relationships)

•  *Parents of Children with Eating Disorders

•  Parents of Multiples — 238-4272

•  *Parents Together (children with disabilities)

•  Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens of Centre County — 238-1444

•  Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence — 800-932-4632

•  Pennsylvania Department of Health — 865-0932

•  *PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) — 237-9439

•  Prostate Cancer Support Group — 234-6787

•  Quit Now — 800-784-8669

•  *Retired Senior Volunteers Program (telephone reassurance)

•  Separated/Divorced/Widowed help line — 234-0549

•  *Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous — 237-5855

•  *Sidelines Coaching (for pregnant women who are bedbound)

•  SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) — 944-8222

•  *Sight-Loss Support Group of Central Pennsylvania — 238-0132

•  *Simplicity Seekers Support Group (simplifying life)

•  *Single Parent Support Group — 234-7340

•  *Singles, etc.

•  *Speak Out — a Peer Support Network

•  Spinal Cord Injury Support Group at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital — 359-3421

•  *STEP (Systematic Training of Effective Parenting)

•  *Stroke Support Group at HealthSouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital — 359-3421

•  *Suicide Support Group

•  *Support Group for People Living with HIV/AIDS — 800-233-2437 (confidential)

•  Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) — 237-7728 (State College) or 349-8170 (Centre Hall)

•  *TIDES, a program for grieving children — 692-2233

•  Walk-in STD clinic, 240 Match Factory Place, Bellefonte, 355-2762

•  Weight Watchers Center — 800-487-4777

•  *Widowed Persons Support Group

•  Wildfire Ranch, using horses to heal humans of depression, 422-0534

•  Woman’s Concern Pregnancy Resource Clinic, 234-7340

•  Women, Infants and Children Program — 234-8621

•  Women’s Resource Center, 234-5222 or 877-234-5050

•  Women’s Support Group — 234-5222

•  *Women’s Survival of Incest Sexual Assault Anonymous — 237-5855