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Offers one-on-one assistance to help individuals determine which private, public, state and local benefits they may be eligible to receive. Includes benefits such as Medicaid, Medicare Part-D, SSI, SSD, food assistance through SNAP (food stamps), HEAP, Golden Buckeye/Ohio's Best Rx Card, Homestead Exemption, prescription assistance programs, housing and many others. After completing the survey, individuals will be given a list of services for which they may be eligible. Benefits counselors will follow-up with the client and provide applications if needed.

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Benefits and Services Assistance
Mental Illness/Emotional Disabilities
Benefits Screening
Kinship Caregivers
Physical Disabilities
Offers Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) classes and online streamed classes for grandparents and other kinship caregivers. Attendance or participating in classes at Cornerstone or at a community support program allows participants to earn "Baby Bucks" which can be used towards the purchase of diapers, formula, and other baby items.
Offers a variety of services to caregivers. Services are designed to fill gaps in current community services. Included are reimbursement for limited and temporary respite, counseling, caregiver training to assist in the areas of health, nutrition, financial literacy, and in making decisions and solving problems related to care giving roles. Support groups, information about services available to unpaid caregivers, and individual training for caregivers in the home are also offered.

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Caregivers
Service Cost Payment Assistance
Caregiver Training
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Respite Care Subsidies
Specialized Information and Referral
Kinship Caregivers
Caregiver Issues
Assist kinship caregivers and their children by making referrals, assisting with forms and accompanying caregivers to community resources as needed.

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Kinship Caregivers
Kinship Care
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Children in Kinship Care
Kinship Care Subsidy Programs
Provides crisis intervention, child abuse prevention, and general information on parenting and child development, safety planning, information, resources and referrals to internal and external programs.

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Child Abuse Hotlines
Parenting Helplines
Kinship Caregivers
Provides supplemental food vouchers, nutrition education, counseling, support and referral services to eligible women, children, fathers, and kinship caregivers. Nursing mothers are provided with information and education on breastfeeding. Also offers speakers who discuss the program and the value of good nutrition and breastfeeding.

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Pregnant Individuals
Kinship Caregivers
Nutrition Issues
WIC
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Fathers
Food Vouchers
Families
Nutrition Education
Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Provides cash payments to children in the legal custody of Kinship, and provides full time caregivers raising a child or chidren other than their own with assistance in accessing services with the community.

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Kinship Caregivers
Kinship Care
Kinship Care Subsidy Programs
Provides assistance with short term basic needs to eligible families. Service may include help with rent payments, utility payments, gift cards for food, and other specific needs that would help families bridge periods of financial instability, allowing them to focus on creating a stable, permanent home for the children in their custody.

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Former Foster Children
Adoptive Parents
Foster Parents
Kinship Caregivers
Food Vouchers
Gas Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Electric Service Payment Assistance
Sewer Service Payment Assistance
Water Service Payment Assistance
Provides information, support groups, education programs, respite activities, workshops, and advocacy for olders adults who care for the minor children of adult relatives. Coordinates a network of providers who serve kinship caregivers and their families. Offers programming for kinship children and teens including a summer camp and other opportunities throughout the year.

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Workshops/Symposiums
Kinship Caregivers
Specialized Information and Referral