Local, Statewide and Nationwide
Patient Support, Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
An organization whose primary mission relates to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient advocacy, education, or direct support programs to address patient specific needs. These organizations may peripherally participate in other activities like legislative advocacy, but patient support is their focus. Programs that help individuals navigate through the maze of the health care system. Personal health care advocates are trained health care workers, often nurses, or volunteers familiar with the health care system who work independently of any health care institution.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Greater DC and Maryland
One M Street NW, Suite 510 North, Washington, DC, 20003
Main:
(202) 296-5363
Toll Free:
(800) 344-4867
Fax:
(202) 296-3425
Local
Patient Support, Parkinson's Disease
An organization whose primary mission relates to Parkinson’s Disease patient advocacy, education, or direct support programs to address patient specific needs. These organizations may peripherally participate in other activities like legislative advocacy, but patient support is their focus. Programs that help individuals navigate through the maze of the health care system. Personal health care advocates are trained health care workers, often nurses, or volunteers familiar with the health care system who work independently of any health care institution.
Bowen McCauley Dance Company
818 N. Quincy Street, Arlington, VA, 22203
Main:
(703) 910-5175
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A disorder affecting individuals who have experienced a psychologically traumatizing event which is characterized by reexperiencing the event through recurrent and intrusive recollections or dreams of the event, or the sudden feeling that the event was recurring; numbing of responsiveness or reduced involvement with the external world beginning sometime after the trauma; and/or one or a combination of other symptoms including hyper-alertness or exaggerated startle response, sleep disturbance, guilt about surviving if others have not, memory or concentration impairment, avoidance of memories that recall the trauma and intensification of symptoms when exposed to events that symbolize or resemble the trauma.
Collins Center and Child Advocacy Center
217 S Liberty Street, Suite 205, Harrisonburg, VA, 22801
Main:
(540) 432-6430
Fax:
(540) 432-6293
Public Awareness
Groups and organizations involved in increasing public education about issues relating to health, aging, disabilities, civic and social services.
District Three Governmental Cooperative
4453 Lee Highway, Marion, VA, 24354
Main:
(276) 783-8157
Toll Free:
(800) 541-0933
Fax:
(276) 783-3003
Encompass Community Supports
15361 Bradford Road, PO Box 1568, Culpeper, VA, 22701
Main:
(540) 825-3100
Fax:
(540) 825-5733
Local Office on Aging (LOA)
4932 Frontage Road NW, Roanoke, VA, 24019
Main:
(540) 345-0451
Toll Free:
(888) 355-6222
Fax:
(540) 981-1487
Alexandria Department of Community and Human Services
2525 Mount Vernon Ave., Unit 9, Alexandria, VA, 22314
Main:
(703) 746-5700
Fax:
(703) 838-4976
Alleghany Highlands Economic Development Corporation
1000 Dabney Drive, Suite 638, Clifton Forge, VA, 24422
Main:
(540) 862-0936
Fax:
(540) 862-0937
Arlington County Commission on the Status of Women
2100 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 318, Arlington, VA, 22201
Main:
(703) 228-3559
Fax:
(703) 228-3354
Arlington County Sheriff's Office
1425 N. Courthouse Rd., #9100, Arlington, VA, 22201
Main:
(703) 228-4460
Fax:
(703) 228-4463
Better Business Bureau of Central Virginia, Inc.
100 Eastshore Drive Suite 100 , Glen Allen, VA, 23059
Main:
(804) 648-0016
Toll Free:
(888) 648-0030
Fax:
(804) 320-0248
11150 Sunset Hills Road Suite 210, Reston, VA, 20190
Main:
(571) 323-9558
Fax:
(571) 323-9554
Fairfax County Department of Cable and Consumer Services
12000 Government Center Pkwy., #133, Fairfax, VA, 22035
Main:
(703) 324-5930
Fax:
(703) 324-5924
Fluvanna County Habitat For Humanity
105 Crofton Plaza, Suite 9, Palmyra, VA, 22963
Main:
(434) 589-3752
P O Box 661, Emporia, VA, 23847
Main:
(434) 634-2490
Fax:
(434) 634-9603
PO Box 27212 , Richmond, VA, 23261
Main:
(804) 321-5678
Fax:
(804) 643-9207
P.O. Box 1740, Alexandria, VA, 22313
Main:
(703) 684-6190
Fax:
(804) 619-0450
P O Box 1531, Chesapeake, VA, 23327
Main:
(757) 543-1029
PO Box 394 , Fairfax, VA, 22038
Main:
(571) 418-2717
P O Box 9273, Hampton, VA, 23670
Main:
(757) 827-1768
P.O. Box 2112, P.O. Box 2112 , Mechanicsville, VA, 23116
Main:
(804) 798-9798
PO Box 2439, Leesburg, VA, 20177
Main:
(703) 779-2990
Fax:
(703) 777-1041
P.O. Box 7881 norfolkbranchnaacp@gmail.com, Norfolk, VA, 23504
Main:
(757) 828-7294
P O Box 25576, Richmond, VA, 23260
Main:
(804) 321-5678
P.O. Box 160, Stafford, VA, 22555
Main:
(757) 808-5712
5252 Olde Towne Road, Williamsburg, VA, 23188
Main:
(757) 229-3113
National Association of Women Business Owners, Washington DC
P O Box 73201, North Chesterfield, VA, 23235
Main:
(804) 346-5644
Fax:
(202) 403-3788
National Kidney Foundation, National Capital Area and Virginia
1622 East Parham Road, Richmond, VA, 23228
Main:
(804) 288-8342
Toll Free:
(888) 543-6398
Fax:
(804) 282-7835
National Organization for Women (NOW), Virginia Chapter
PO Box 25831, Richmond, VA, 23260
Main:
(804) 780-9092
PO Box 12, Richmond, VA, 23218
Main:
(804) 345-1212
Toll Free:
(800) 733-2812
