Health and Human Services Collaborative

Announcements

Free Tax Preparation Sites

AARP Tax-Aide Free Tax preparation sites will open in February.  For a list of sites, click here.

Horizon Goodwill Assistance

Horizon Goodwill Industries in Martinsburg has open enrollment every Tuesday from 10a-12p for applications for career development and job placement services. Enrollment is open to individuals with disabilities, individuals in disadvantaging situation, or individuals who have not worked for a lengthy period of time, ie.over a year or more.    For more information, contact Kathy Garza, Vocational Services Specialist, at (304) 267-3177 ext. 107. 

Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline

Misuse of prescription drugs has reached epidemic proportions in the Mountain State.  WV has the largest increase in the US for death due to drug overdose: 550%.  Prescription drug abuse often begins with routine and necessary treatment for pain due to injury or medical condition, but spirals out of control to devastating personal damage and loss--or fatality. 

  In response, the West Virginia Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline was  recently launched and is ready to help any caller.    

The Quitline, 1-866-WVQUITT, is available 24 hours a day for 7 days a week. Its purpose is to to educate prescription drug abusers and their families about the problem and services in their areas.   For more information, www.wvrxabuse.org.  

Self Help Housing Telamon is currently looking for five families that would like to build their own homes. Five lots are available in Inwood. The Self-Help Program is for families under 80% of the median income limits. The families work together and supply up to 65% of the labor to build their homes. They do not need construction experience. They do have to qualify for a USDA/Rural Housing loan. No down payment is required and the monthly payment is based on the person’s income. This is a magnificent opportunity. Feel free to print copies of the attached flyer and distribute to co-workers, employees, family members or anyone that might be interested. For more information, contact Rosa Eggleton at 263-0916 ext. 13 or reggleton@telamon.org .  

West Virginia’s Promise mini-grants

Minigrants are awarded to assist communities/organizations who are committed to building bigger and better community collaborations for children and youth.  2009 mini-grants will focus on Promise 4, An Effective Education.

Applications are due January 3, 2009

Community/Regional Summit Deadline April 25, 2009

Report Due: May 9, 2009

 

You can download 2009 Mini-Grant Application from our web site, http://westvirginia.promisestation.org/ 

For information about West Virginia’s Promise contact Pamela Dugan, phone, 304-661-1460 or pdugan@frontiernet.net.

 

Adult Basic Education Classes Click here for a document that includes contact information and schedules for Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Literacy programs in the RESA VIII eight-county region. There may be changes of personnel, schedules, and contact data.  Please advise potential students/clients to contact the program for confirmation before attending to. To report any changes or errors, contact Beverly Baccala at 304-267-3595, x.122 or bbaccala@access.k12.wv.us

 

For details about ABE, you may also visit the statewide website: http://wvde.state.wv.us/abe.

 

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