211-East Tennessee Information and Referral
Non-emergency line for human service information
211 provides a free, easy to use, comprehensive information and referral system which links people in need with appropriate health and human service resources.

AGAPE
525-1661
428 East Scott Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Halfway House and Residential Treatment
A residential treatment program for female substance abusers. Services include individual counseling, group therapy, vocational guidance, education, retraining through vocational rehabilitation and referrals. Participants must be females 18 years of age or older, ambulatory, employable, a minimum of 72 hours sobriety and have a sincere desire for rehabilitation

AMERICAN RED CROSS
584-2999
6921 Middlebrook Pike, P.O. Box 50156, Knoxville, Tennessee 37950-0156

Armed Forces and International Services
This program provides worldwide emergency communications to members of the armed forces and their families. The program also provides for counseling and financial assistance to military families and veterans.

Community Volunteer Services
A program which recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers in a provision of basic Red Cross services, including volunteers at school health clinics, nursing homes, VA hospitals, Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, and Operation Health Check.

Disaster Services
A program that provides disaster relief to the victims of emergencies, including the victims of single-family fires, floods, and other disasters in the community. A family suffering such loss is offered counseling and assistance in planning recovery. Shelter is provided either in mass shelter during large-scale disasters, or in motel rooms for single-family incidents.

Health and Nursing Services
This program recruits and trains area nurses to serve as Red Cross disaster health service volunteers. Nurses from East Tennessee are trained in preparation for services on local disasters. Certified Nursing Assistants are trained for employment in community facilities.

Safety Services
This program provides health and safety training to local businesses, the health care community, and the public. It provides first aid stations at University of Tennessee football games, the Tennessee Valley Fair, the Civic Coliseum, and other large public events. Instructors teach CPR, first aid, aquatics, and other lifesaving skills.

Youth Services
A program providing personal growth and leadership development opportunities to youth through training and volunteering in Red Cross activities and special events.

ARNSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
690-6343
6800 Deane Hill Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

Milton Collins Day Camp
An accredited summer camp operating from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for nine weeks every summer. Social skills, childcare, swimming, and sports are offered to children ages three to 12 years, with leadership development and staff training available for high-school age children.

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION
470-7909
6504 Deane Hill Drive, Suite C Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

Patient and Community Services
This program provides a variety of services for adults and juveniles with arthritis and their families. Services include education and self-care, learning opportunities, support, and advocacy. It also provides a loan closet of donated self-help aids, such as wheelchairs, walkers, electric beds and other equipment.

Public and Professional Education
The public education program strives to increase awareness about arthritis. Health care professionals provide educational programs for other health care providers as well as people with arthritis.

Research
This program supports research to find a cure for arthritis and to improve the quality of life for those affected by it.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY
523-2179
4928 Homberg Drive, Suite B-3, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

CORE (Community-Based Mentoring)
A one-to-one mentoring service for children 7 to 15 years of age who have suffered family disruption or loss. The volunteer "Big" acts as a friend and role model.

Bigs in Schools (School-Based Mentoring)
This program matches volunteers for weekly contact with elementary-age children (with social, academic and/or behavioral issues) identified by school personnel as needing the extra attention of a mentor.

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
588-6514
1333 Old Weisgarber Road, P.O. Box 51885, Knoxville, Tennessee 37950-1885

Boy Scout
A program to build character, to foster citizenship and to develop fitness in boys 6th - 8th grades so that they become productive adults.

Cub Scout
A program to build character, to foster citizenship and to develop fitness in boys aged 6-10 years of age to become productive adults.

Venturing Program
A program to build character, to foster citizenship and to develop fitness in boys and girls in the 9th - 12th grades to become productive adults.

Activities/Camping Program
A program to build character, to foster citizenship and to develop fitness through camping and other activities such as hiking, boating and other adventure and travel experiences for all scouting programs.

Learning for Life
This in-school program serves boys and girls from kindergarten to the 12th grade, teaching character development and decision-making skills.

Outreach Scouting-This program modifies the traditional Boy Scout and Cub Scout programs for maximum effectiveness with at-risk groups.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS
544-3825 Ext. 221 for Information
220 Carrick St., Suite 318, Knoxville, Tennessee 37921

Childcare Food Program
A program that provides nutritious snacks and hot meals to Boys and Girls Club members.

Child Safety Program
This program teaches personal safety and self-protective skills to reduce vulnerability to abuse, crime, and violence in the streets, schools, and homes.

Education and Literacy
This program provides daily homework assistance through tutorial activities. The program also provides summer reading activities and basic computer training.

Interpersonal and Life Skills Development
This program provides career opportunities and prepares youth for employment responsibilities. Several special interest "clubs" provide enrichment activities such as photography and community service.

Prevention and Health
A program which provides activities to increase awareness and prevent drug/alcohol use and teen pregnancy. This program also includes health screenings for vision and dental deficiencies and information on good nutrition, hygiene, and physical activities.

CAC-OFFICE ON AGING
524-2786
2247 Western Avenue, P.O. Box 51650, Knoxville, Tennessee 37950-1650

Daily Living Center
This program provides adult daycare for persons 60 years and older. The Center's main purpose is to promote health, socialization, and independent living skills, and to prevent premature institutionalization.

Mobile Meals
A program which delivers meals five days a week, including holidays, to Knox County citizens who are at least 60 years old and who cannot cook for themselves or have no one to prepare a meal for them.

Senior Citizens Information and Referral Service
A service providing information and referral to/for senior citizens seeking help in such areas as housing, transportation, health, recreation, finances, retirement, and loneliness.

CASA-A CHILD'S VOICE IN COURT, INC.
329-3399
2200 Sutherland Avenue, Suite C-104, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

Court Appointed Special Advocates
CASA provides advocacy, through carefully trained and assigned volunteers, to children who are dependent, abused and/or neglected and seen by the Knox County Juvenile Court. CASA volunteers carefully study each child's case and become that "child's voice in court" working for the best possible placement.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES
524-9896
3009 Lake Brook Boulevard, Knoxville, Tennessee 37909

Samaritan Place
This program provides transitional housing for the elderly and a safe and supportive place for, or when, people stay on a short-term basis. It provides support when someone leaves their home because of abuse, exploitation, neglect, self-neglect, or when a financial crisis leads to a loss of housing, times where the present home is unsafe or in need of major repair, or during any emergency that threatens one's safety.

CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER
523-0491
241 Woodland Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917-6363

Day Services
This program provides day habilitation, training, community participation, and community-based employment services to physically disabled adults with the purpose of increasing independence and successful community functioning.

CEREBRAL PALSY HOUSING CORPORATION
687-9204
2014 Highland Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37918-2219

Group Home
This program provides residential care for physically disabled adults in a group home setting. Associated services include meals, transportation, and personal attendant care.

CHILD & FAMILY TENNESSEE
524-7483
901 East Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37915

Connections
A program that provides crisis intervention and family preservation through flexible, family-focused in-home services designed to address the problems of at-risk children and families in Knox County.

Continuum for Permanency Services
This program provides a wide range of services from intensive residential care to in-home services that help families stay together. Additional services such as an accredited school, nursing and psychological care are also provided. Children work through this continued transitioning to less restrictive environments until the ultimate goal of reunification with family, family foster care, or independent living is achieved.

Family Crisis Center
This program provides an emergency shelter for abused women ages 18 and older, with or without children. In addition to shelter, they receive treatment and case management services.

Family Life Enrichment
This program provides assistance to individuals and/or families concerning such issues as marriage, divorce, family violence, sexual abuse, parent-child problems, dealing with grief, and other areas.

Great Starts
A residential or day treatment program that provides services for drug-exposed, HIV positive and/or medically fragile infants up to three years of age and their pregnant or postpartum mothers. This program was established to help prevent abandonment of infants and maintain family unity.

Kids on the Block
An educational preventive program using childlike puppets. The program provides information to children about physical and sexual abuse, drug abuse, prevention of teenage pregnancy, living with disabilities, AIDS, and organ and tissue donation.

Managing Emotions Nonviolently
This program provides group counseling for men who have been referred by the courts for spousal and/or family abuse.

Partners and Families First
This is an interactive case management approach to provide linkage, continuous support, and follow-up for parents. The goal of the program is to prevent child abuse and neglect by providing parenting education and child development classes and other supportive services.

PASAAC/ Sex Abuse Counseling
This program assists individuals and families affected by sexual abuse. The program helps them to cope with the trauma and understand their individual and family dynamics so they can lead personally satisfying, socially useful lives and prevent further occurrences of abuse.

PleasanTree Apartments
A residential program that assists the homeless, mentally ill, and single-parent families and their children so they can learn to function independently in the community.

Respond
An emergency response team providing 24-hour crisis intervention services to children suffering from neglect and/or abuse from substance abusing parents. The purpose is to prevent further child abuse and neglect, prevent removal of the children from the home, and to address the substance abuse problem with the parents.

Runaway Shelter and Project Safe Place
An emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth. The shelter provides services 24-hours a day, 365-days a year. Services are available to youth ages 11-18.

Therapy Center
A licensed outpatient mental health program that provides psychotherapy for individual and family emotional problems. Services are provided for people of all ages and income levels.

Transitional Living
This program offers long-term residential and outreach services for youth who currently do not have a safe, viable living situation or who are at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Services include case management, counseling, life skills training, career counseling, and liaison services with a variety of community agencies.

THE CHILDREN'S CENTER
523-2672
301 Frank Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919-2203

CAC (Certificate) Program
This program provides matching funds to support childcare services for children who are protected, abused, handicapped, developmentally delayed or come from single parent homes.

Scholarship Program
This program provides a subsidy of day care services for families who are unable to pay full fee.

COLUMBUS HOME
971-3560
3009 Lake Brook Boulevard, Knoxville, Tennessee 37909

Columbus Home Shelter
A shelter for abused, abandoned, or neglected children. Clients must have a referral from the Tennessee Department of Children's Services.

Parent Place
This program provides professional supervision of visitation between children and their non-custodial parents.

EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL REHABILITATION CENTER
690-8961
1025 Children's Way, Knoxville, Tennessee 37922

Motor Development Services
This program provides physician-referred physical and occupational therapy rehabilitation and evaluation and treatment services to children with handicaps and special needs. Children served range from those with mild developmental delays to those with multiple and chronically disabling disorders such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and genetic syndromes.

Speech and Language Services
This service provides physician-referred speech and language therapy rehabilitation, evaluation and treatment services to children with handicaps and special needs. Children served range from those with mild developmental delays to those with multiple and chronically disabling disorders, such as cerebral palsy.

THE EAST TENNESSEE COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
525-9945
1300 North Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Designworks
This program provides design and planning assistance to community groups that cannot afford to pay professional fees for these services.

EAST TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGY ACCESS CENTER
219-0130
4918 North Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee 37918

Community Living
This program provides direct assistance to individuals with disabilities and their families specifically related to assistive technology information, funding, advocacy, evaluations, consultations, training, technical support, educational management, and the loan and manufacture of specific devices, toys and software. The center provides services upon request to all individuals with disabilities, regardless of age.

Literacy for Young Children
A program which provides young children with disabilities access to books and other written materials using assistive technology.

EPILEPSY FOUNDATION
522-4991
1715 Magnolia Avenue, P.O. Box 3156, Knoxville, Tennessee 37927-3156

Client Service
This program provides financial and emotional support to people with epilepsy and their families. Medication purchases are also provided when no other help is available.

Education
This service educates the public about epilepsy by providing information and dispelling myths.

THE FLORENCE CRITTENTON AGENCY
602-2021
1531 Dick Lonas Road, Knoxville, Tennessee 37909-1218

Residential Treatment Services
A residential program for adolescent females who cannot live at home or with a relative as a result of a crisis with the family, school and/or community, and for pregnant girls and women who are in crisis or at risk. In addition to room and board, counseling, education, medical care, supervision, and wholesome recreation are provided.

STARS (Students Teaching and Respecting Sexuality)
A speaking panel composed of local sexually abstinent teens, teen parents, and pregnant teens with the purposes of promoting abstinence, sexual responsibility and preventing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.

FRIENDS OF LITERACY
594-1507
101 East Fifth Avenue, Room 217, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Adult Literacy Program
This program teaches basic skills (reading, writing, spelling, and math) to approximately 400 adults over the age of 18 who function below the sixth grade level. It emphasizes "life skills" that adults need to succeed as parents, workers, and citizens of our community.

GIRL SCOUTS
688-9440
1600 Breda Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37918-1498

Girl Scouts in Your Neighborhood-This program provides the foundation for preparing girls ages 5-17 to become competent and resourceful women. Inspiring the highest ideals of character, conduct, patriotism, and service, it includes opportunities for leadership, career development and health decision-making.

Outdoor Education-This program includes learning experiences that focus on enjoying and appreciating the outdoors through exploration and skill building. It is designed to increase physical activity while teaching girls about critical environmental issues, caring for the natural environment and healthy life habits.

Girl Scout Outreach-A program using nontraditional methods of recruitment and extra effort to ensure retention for identifiable at-risk groups including girls from diverse socio-ethnic backgrounds, low-income families, rural environments, and girls who may be differently-abled.

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
588-8567
5307 Kingston Pike, P. O. Box 11066, Knoxville, Tennessee 37939-1066

CNA
This program provides individualized training to students with disabilities who have a desire to become a Nurse's Assistant. The HOP program provides a Caregiver class that prepares individuals for positions in the daycare profession and prepares them to move into the CNA program.

Occupational Skills Training
This program trains students on a variety of office systems (e.g. Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet) and prepares them for employment. The Clerical Skills Training program works with students to increase their typing speed and accuracy in order to enter the next level SPACE program.

Placement
This program assists individuals in identifying, obtaining and/or maintaining employment commensurate with their vocational, social, psychological, and mental needs and abilities. In addition, services are available to employers to facilitate the successful employment of individuals with disabilities.

Work Adjustment
This program is designed to establish appropriate social behaviors and work habits necessary for success in competitive employment. A specific adjustment plan is developed for each individual based on the information produced from the vocational evaluation. The consumer and referral sources are involved in the planning and implementation of the program.

HELEN ROSS McNABB CENTER
637-9711
201 West Springdale Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Adolescent Residential
An intensive short-term chemical abuse residential rehabilitation program for adolescents ages 13-18.

Adult Residential
A detoxification service in a short-term residential rehabilitation facility that includes group and individual counseling, chemical dependency education, life skills training, family and aftercare counseling, referral, and assessment.

Adult Intensive Outpatient
This service provides outpatient substance abuse support services to men and women whose lives are affected by their own substance abuse.

Sisters of the Rainbow
This service provides day treatment to women whose lives are affected by substance abuse and addiction.

Therapeutic Preschool
A program providing comprehensive assessment and treatment services to abused and neglected preschool children, ages three to six, and their families. The program goals are to reduce the risk of ongoing abuse, overcome developmental delays, restructure family and home environments, and to improve parental child-rearing skills.

INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC
546-7330
315 Gill Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Patient Services
Provides on-site family practice health care to working individuals without insurance. Services include lab work and x-rays on a sliding fee scale. Specialty clinics-including podiatry, gynecology, diabetic counseling and minor surgery-are held at the clinic on a regular basis. Dental care, mental health counseling, and affordable medications are also offered on-site.

KIDNEY FOUNDATION
688-5481
4450 Walker Boulevard, Suite 2, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917-1548

Community Services
This service provides health and wellness exhibits to inform the community about kidney and urinary tract diseases and increase public awareness about the benefits of organ donations.

Education
This service provides educational programs and materials for the prevention of kidney diseases.

Patient Services
This is a service providing nutritional supplements, transportation, medication and medical supplies, telephone services, and information and referral to clients.

KNOX COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS
546-9431
3000 North Central Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917-5126

Beta Home
A residential program for adults with developmental disabilities. Most of the clients have lived in state institutions for the greater part of their lives.

Community Support for Employment
This program addresses impediments to the successful employment of people with disabilities, including social isolation, lack of independent living support, and job replacement.

Sunshine Early Intervention
A program providing infant and early childhood education and training for babies with developmental disabilities. This home-based program teaches parents how they can most effectively work with their children with disabilities.

Sunshine Industries
This service provides jobs, job training, and placement for adults with mental retardation ages 18 years and older. Clients have sufficient social, physical, and cognitive skills to meet minimum production requirements.

Sunshine Leisure Services/Recreation
This program provides recreational and social activities for people with mental retardation and handicaps.

KNOX COUNTY SCHOOLS/PTA CLOTHING CENTER
594-3791 (Center) / 594-1398 (Office)
1000 North Central Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

PTA Clothing Center
This service provides clothing to children enrolled in the Knox County Schools who do not have the resources to purchase needed items. Each child is provided two pairs of new jeans, new socks and underwear, and a new shirt. Other clothing is distributed from donated items.

Students receive enough clothing to wear for at least five school days. Coats are provided if needed and available. Students are eligible to receive clothing twice a year.

KNOXVILLE CENTER OF THE DEAF
579-0832
3731 Martin Mill Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee 37920

Core Management Program
This program provides direction, planning, coordination, implementation, and feedback for all the agency's service programs.

KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE
524-5511
1514 East Fifth Avenue, P.O. Box 1911, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901-1911

Housing and Community Development
A service providing housing-related consultation and referrals, Homebuyers Education, mortgage default intervention strategies, and budgeting/credit repair. It encourages lenders, developers, and other service providers to develop affordable housing services and policies to maximize housing opportunities and foster community development.

Workforce Development and Job Creation
This program provides outreach, assessment, pre-employment consultation, skills training, and referrals to promote access to employment/career, business, and other opportunities. It also provides mediation and workforce consultation with stakeholders to foster a cohesive and inclusive working environment and an assessment of area workforce needs and policies particularly in the areas of health care, building/trades, and service industries.

KNOXVILLE VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY RESCUE SQUAD
546-4824 (Office) / 546-4821 (Emergencies)
512 Chilhowee Drive NE, Knoxville, Tennessee 37914

Knoxville Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad
This program provides emergency primary vehicle rescue services and water rescue services for Knox County. It also provides specialized rescue service for Knoxville and Knox County including cave/vertical, support, heavy rescue, trench, and search services.

LADIES OF CHARITY
524-0538
Administrative Office: 119 Dameron Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917-6414
Thrift Store: 1031 North Central Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917-6449

Emergency Assistance Program
This program provides emergency assistance such as food, rent, medication, clothing, and limited utility assistance to individuals and families. Non-utility fuel assistance is also available for coal, firewood, and kerosene. Transportation assistance is provided in the form of a gas voucher or bus passes for transportation to a job or interview, social services appointments, or funerals.

LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE
637-0484
502 South Gay Street, Suite 404, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902-1595

Domestic Violence Civil Legal Services
This program provides legal representation to victims of domestic violence with the goal of ending physical and psychological abuse.

Paralegal Intake and Brief Services
A client intake and brief services program that provides brief legal assistance or links low-income clients, as necessary, with a staff member or volunteer attorney to assist them in resolving civil legal problems.

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
584-9125
9050 Executive Park Drive, Suite 104-A, P. O. Box 32731, Knoxville, Tennessee 37930-2731

Client Service Programs
This program assists individuals who are mentally and emotionally disturbed and their families with direct services such as depression screenings, matched mentors, and material resources.

Education
This program provides workshops and conferences regarding mental health conditions, best practices, and other issues.

System Advocacy
This program identifies mental health system gaps and barriers and tracks trends regarding access to care.

MY VILLAGE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
577-0123
1600 Willoughby Road, Knoxville, Tennessee 37920

My Village Child Development Center
This program provides a safe, nurturing environment in which children can grow and learn. The Center provides assurance to working parents that their children are having their physical, emotional, and psychological needs met.

PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
374-7134
6800 Baum Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919

Independent Living Program
A program providing intensive treatment, case management, and wraparound supports for individuals who are seriously and persistently mentally ill to live as independently as possible in community settings.

THE SALVATION ARMY
525-9401
409 North Broadway, P.O. Box 669, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901

Emergency Assistance Program
This is an emergency service program that provides financial assistance and supplementary aid such as food, clothing, prescriptions, and furniture to local families and individuals in emergency situations.

Joy Baker Center
This program for women provides emergency residential services and ongoing treatment and support. Information and referrals are also provided in an effort to end the cycle of victimization and enable clients to positively restructure their lives.

Men's Shelter Program
A service providing emergency shelter care for homeless and transient men in crisis. Services include lodging, meals, clothing, and counseling.

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
521-0000
922 Delaware Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee 37921

Cased Food-This program provides a variety of packaged and fresh foods in case quantities for qualified agency/food partners that serve the hungry in Knox County.

Food for Kids-A collaborative program with Knox County schools that provides weekend meals in backpacks for at-risk elementary school children and their siblings.

Kids Café-This program provides snacks or group-prepared after school meals and nutrition education for at-risk elementary school children in partnership with the YMCA, Boys & Girls Clubs and church youth groups.

Knoxville Harvest- This program rescues prepared and perishable food from grocers, restaurants and food suppliers and delivers it daily to soup kitchens that serve the hungry.

SENIOR CITIZENS HOME ASSISTANCE SERVICE
523-2920
209 Bearden Place, P.O. Box 3025, Knoxville, Tennessee 37927-3025

Home Hair Care
Licensed cosmetologists provide hair care - cuts, shaves, shampoos, permanents, pedicures, and manicures to homebound clients.

Homemaker Program
A service in which trained and bonded Home Assistants provide homemaker tasks - meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, grocery shopping, personal care, and companionship to elderly and handicapped clients.

SAFE HAVEN CRISIS AND RECOVERY CENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT
522-7273 (crisis line)
558-9040 (administration)
P.O. Box 11523, Knoxville, Tennessee 37939-1523

Prevention and Education
This service provides information and education to create an understanding of sex abuse victimization. It informs individuals on what to do if assaulted, ways to protect children and adults, and ways to improve response of professionals.

Victim Assistance
A program providing a variety of services to victims of rape and sexual abuse including 24-hour crisis counseling, medical information, hospital and court accompaniment, legal information, and cooperation with law enforcement officials. It also operates the Rape Hotline, 522 RAPE.

UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
(202) 610-6457
1008 Eberle Place SE, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. 20374-5096

United Service Organizations
Provides services to members of the United States Armed Forces (and their families) at major bases in the United States and overseas.

VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER
524-3926
103 South Gay Street, P.O. Box 325, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901-0325

Day Resource Center
This program is a downtown center for people who are homeless, open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It provides basic necessities, showers, laundry facilities, meals, and counseling on a walk-in basis. The program also offers health classes, employment counseling, mental health counseling, and referrals, as well as a motivational support group for men and women on a scheduled basis.

WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
524-5494
923 Dameron Avenue NW, Knoxville, Tennessee 37921-3500

After School Program
A program providing after school enrichment focusing on education, life skills, character building, and recreation to at-risk youth in the first through fifth grades. Area children and youth are served from 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. daily.

Senior Citizens
This service provides a variety of senior citizen programs which include a well-balanced meal and transportation to and from the Center on a weekly basis.

Summer Program
A summer day camp for elementary school-aged children which focuses on supervised recreational activities. Academic enrichment, community service, cooking, fitness, golf, water skiing, and residential camping are only a few of the opportunities offered to participants in this program, which runs for eight weeks, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Breakfast, lunch and snacks are served daily.

YMCA
368-9623,
616 Jessamine Street, Knoxville, TN 37917

After School Childcare
A service providing after school childcare for children in grades K-5 attending Knox County Schools.

Aquatics Programs-in collaboration with YWCA
A program offering swimming instruction for preschool and school-age children. Other swimming programs include adult instruction, adult exercises and arthritic programs for senior citizens, handicapped programs, recreational swims, and swim teams.

Camping Programs
The day camping program provides summer childcare for children ages 4-15.

Community and Family Membership
The membership program of the YMCA is a facility-based program consisting of four facilities: the East Side, West Side, North Side, and the YMCA HealthWorks Center.

Youth Programs
A facility-based program consisting of youth sports leagues, gymnastics, martial arts, dance, tennis, various overnights at the YMCA, and tutoring.

YWCA
523-6126
420 West Clinch Avenue SW, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902-2198

Health and Fitness-in collaboration with YMCA
A program offering swim classes and activities for all age groups that include therapeutic services for people with handicaps, arthritis, etc. It includes classes in arts, crafts, karate, stress and weight management, computer skills, homemaking, career planning, and self-confidence.

Phyllis Wheatley Branch
The Phyllis Wheatley Branch provides cultural, educational, recreational, and personal development programs to residents of the East Knoxville area.

Residential Program
This service provides residence for women who are in transitional situations brought about after personal traumas such as divorce, the death of spouse, or escape from abuse from a spouse or family member.

Victim Advocacy Program
The program provides direct services to victims of domestic violence and elder abuse. These services include crisis intervention, intake and needs assessment, assistance in completing court documents, preparation of victims for court appearances, accompaniment to court, and referral to other community agencies. This program also includes community education presentations and training sessions for local police officers and attorneys.

Youth Department
This service provides a Y-Teen program for girls to gain valuable leadership skills and self-esteem through community service and leadership roles. Summer Day Care offers working parents an inexpensive alternative for their children during the summer. Boys and girls, ages 6-14, are served through this program.