Clarion County Assistance Office
Phone: 814-226-1700 or 1-800-253-3488
Income cash (TANF) and food assistance (SNAP), medical assistance health coverage, long term living services
LIHEAP
home heating and energy assistance
Phone: 814-226-1780 or 1-800-253-3488
Phone: 814-938-3302
Provides food pantry programs, housing assistance, heating assistance, home repairs, weatherization and other programs
Center for Community Resources
Phone: 1-800-292-3866 or 226-1080
WIC Women, Infants and Children
Phone: 814-226-8130
Supplemental for low to moderate income women, from pregnancy through infants and children up to age five, as well as parenting fathers, offering nutrition education, breastfeeding support and healthy foods.
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Phone:1-800-799-SAFE
Provides a search by county, zip code or gps to find domestic violence programs in your area
Community Action Inc./Crossroads
Phone: 1-800-598-3998 or 1-814-938-3580
Domestic violence program which provides services and support for counseling, safety planning, legal advocacy, emergency housing, prevention programs
Phone: 1-800-992-3039 or 814-226-8481 or 814-226-7020
PASSAGES (Prevention & Service for Sexual Assault through Guidance, Empowerment, & Support)
Phone: 1-888-716-9677
Provides individual & group counseling, legal advocacy, sexual violence prevention education programs
Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs
Phone: 1-800-662-HELP
Department overseeing treatment and provider search for drug and alcohol treatment and funding by county or zip code
Phone: 1-800-323-1333
Phone: 1-800-525-5437 or 814-226-4171
Armstrong Indiana Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission
Phone: 1-724-354-2746
Child Care Works & Keystone STARS / ELRC2/ Subsidized Childcare
Phone: 814-765-1546 or 1-800-442-5807
The Early Learning Resource Center for Region 2 is based through the Clearfield County League on Social Services
Child Care Provider & Early Childhood Education Programs Search
Keystone STARS program information
Assistance with childcare, child care providers search, Keystone STARS information, resource and referral information
Online application for childcare subsidy
Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)
Pennsylvania’s oversight division creating opportunities and overseeing services to the Commonwealth’s youngest children and their families which falls under the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education. Divisions under OCDEL include: Certification, Early Intervention, Policy & Professional Development, Bureau of Operations and Monitoring, Child Care Works and Keystone STARS. Contains contact information for services in each county.
Children’s Developmental Milestones
Developmental milestones are behaviors or physical skills and traits seen in infants, toddlers and young children as they grow and develop that are typical among children of a certain age group. Developmental milestones provide a guide to development by months and years.
CDC’s Developmental Milestones website and quiz
PA Promise’s Developmental Milestone Checklist
Early Learning GPS has an app for tracking milestones
Find licensed child care facilities as well as other learning programs in your area through COMPASS Provider Search by county, address or school district.
Early Intervention Services CONNECT Helpline
Phone: 1-800-692-7288 for referrals
Screening for children ages birth to five, assessing communication, cognition, motor skills, social-personal and adaptive behavior and providing services for children with a delay of 25% or greater compared to other children.
Ages Birth-3: Center for Community Resources
Phone: 814-226-1080
Ages 3 – 5 (School Age) Riverview Intermediate Unit 6
Phone: 814-297-5128
Family Centers
Family Centers are an initiative of Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services and offers a range of services for children and their families to promote economic self-sufficiency and healthy development and health care for children within their community. CenClear Child Services operates the Family Center.
Allegany Clarion Valley Family Center
Phone: 724-659-3224
Head Start is a federal and state-funded early childhood education program that offers education, health and social services at no cost at a classroom site and in the home to low income children ages 3, 4 & 5 and their families. Early Head Start in Clearfield County is a home visiting program at no cost to families for pregnant women and their children up to the age of 3.
Jefferson Clarion Head Start, Inc.
Phone: 814-849-3660
For more information about Pennsylvania’s Home Visiting Programs, visit PA Promise’s site
Visit the PA Department of Education’s page on Family Support Programs
Jefferson-Clarion Heard Start, Inc. Early Head Start
Phone: 814-849-3660
The Guidance Center/ Parents as Teachers
Phone: 814-362-6535
Pre-K Counts provides high quality half and full day pre-kindergarten programs for 3 and 4 year olds in schools, child care centers and preschools to families between 130% and 300% of the federal poverty guidelines.
Phone: 814-764-3111
Jefferson Clarion Heard Start, Inc. Early Head Start
Phone: 814-849-3660
Phone: 814-797-2127
North Clarion County School District
Phone: 814-744-8544
Phone:814-226-7103
Provides educational services and support services to the local school districts
Job Search and Employment Training
PA CareerLink at Clarion County
Phone: 1-844-333-5248
Phone:1-814-226-4785 X104
GED Information
Jefferson/Clarion Family Learning Center
Phone: 1-814-227-8210
PA CareerLink at Clarion County
Phone: 1-844-333-5248
Clarion County Literacy Council
Phone: 1-814-226-4626
Phone: 814-226-4000
Provides information and links about county government including the court system, county commissioners, emergency management/911, Clearfield County Children, Youth & Family Services, Clearly Ahead Development, Voter information and much more.
Clarion County Domestic Relations
Phone: 814-226-1030
Works with families to establish and enforce support obligations for children and spouses
Clarion County Children, Youth & Family Services
Phone: 814-226-9280
Phone:1-800-932-0313
Office of Children, Youth & Families Western Division
Phone: 412-565-2339
Regional office overseeing the county children and youth agencies within the Western Region, including Clearfield County
Obtaining Child Abuse Clearances, Criminal Background Checks, NSOR Clearance and FBI Fingerprinting
The website Keep Kids Safe provides links to apply for PA ChildLine Child Abuse Clearances, PA State Police Criminal Record Checks, the new National Sex Offender Registry clearance (NSOR) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Fingerprinting
Housing and Rental Assistance
Pennsylvania Association of Housing & Redevelopment Agencies
Clarion County Housing Authority
Phone: 814-226-8910 X100
Office of Community and Economic Development/ Industrial Development Authority
Phone: 814-226-8910
Phone: 814-938-3302
Provides food pantry programs, housing assistance, heating assistance, home repairs, weatherization and other programs
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Phone:1-800-986-KIDS (5437)
Children’s Health Insurance Program for uninsured children teens not eligible for medical assistance
Medical Assistance Clarion County Assistance Office
Phone: 814-226-1700 or 1-800-253-3488
Medical Assistance Transportation Program
Phone: 1-800-672-7116 or 814-226-7012
Transportation services to medical appointments
Phone: 1-800-440-3989
Resource to assist Pennsylvanians in selecting health plans and doctors in their area
Phone: 1-877-PA-HEALTH
Phone: 1-800-318-2596
US Government website that has a marketplace of health insurance plan options. Application is subject to an Open Enrollment period in which purchasers can enroll. Special enrollment options exist for changes such as loss of insurance, change in residence, certain life changes like the birth or adoption of a child or death of a family member.
Dental Care
Pennsylvania Dental Association
Phone: 814-223-9906
Vision Care
Pennsylvania Optometric Association
Find a vision specialist by address
Phone: 814-226-4862
Phone: 1-800-222-2818
Family Wize offers a free prescription discount card and drug price comparison tool to help lower the cost of common medications.
An array of mental health and behavioral health providers, including counseling, service coordination, wraparound services and more
Center for Community Resources
Phone: 814-226-1080 or 1-800-292-3866
CASSP Coordinator Age 3+: Brian Whren 814-226-1080
Clarion Psychiatric Center
Phone: 1-800-253-4906
Community Care Behavioral Health
Phone: 1-844-488-5336
Single point of contact and managed care company overseeing behavioral health services
Phone: 814-371-3763 or 1-888-647-0020
Service Access and Management (SAM)
Phone: 814-297-1100
Behavioral Health Providers
Clarion Family Therapy, Inc.
Phone: 814-227-2941
Family Psychological Associates
Phone; 814-226-4913
PA Association of County Administrators of Mental Health and Developmental Services– Local Contacts
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) /Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Phone: 800-906-9887
Provides a tax credit for working individuals and families with low to moderate incomes
PARENT & FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS
Programs that provide a home visitor to help pregnant and parenting families of young children with topics such as prenatal care, breastfeeding, infant and toddler care, child development, health and nutrition, and family support.
Allegany Clarion Valley Family Center
Phone: 724-659-3224
Early Head Start Jefferson-Clarion Head Start
Phone: 814-342-5678
Parents as Teachers The Guidance Center
Phone: 814-371-0613
Pennsylvania Voter Registration
County Elections Contact for questions 814-765-2642