Find Westmoreland

FindWestmoreland.org is a new website linking
Westmoreland County residents to information about health, human, social, and community-based resources in Westmoreland County.

More and more, Westmoreland County information is going online. This fall, InWestmoreland.com celebrates two years of extraordinary growth and success. Earlier in 2004, Westmoreland County launched a completely revised and updated government services site at www.co.westmoreland.pa.us. Even neighborhood websites such as MyNorthhuntingdon.com have proven popular. Now, an essential new website has been added to the mix. FindWestmoreland.org is an Internet based listing of health, human, social, civic, governmental, faith-based, and community-based resources throughout Westmoreland County. Whether your need is to find information on anything from Adoption Services to Employment or from Nursing Homes to Transportation, FindWestmoreland.org quickly connects you with the contact information you need, including links to available websites.

You can locate information on FindWestmoreland by browsing through easy to use directories (organized alphabetically), or by typing the subject of your search into the online search field. FindWestmoreland also boasts a community calendar, guided tour, and a useful documents section, allowing users to download items such as enrollment applications, newsletters, and informative articles.

In an effort to keep information up to date, FindWestmoreland has been designed to allow each agency to add its own information into the system and to update it as necessary. This makes FindWestmoreland not only a useful resource for the public, but an impressive research tool for the many community services throughout the county, allowing them to find all existing and new organizations serving the county, and to have access to the latest information supplied directly from those organizations. In fact, every 90 days, those participating in the site receive an email reminding them to log in an update their listings.

FindWestmoreland.org is a project of the Health & Welfare Council of Westmoreland County, and its growth and development have been championed by the Director of the HWCWC, Jack Wagner. “We have published a directory of services for the county since 1961, a project which required more than 9 months of effort each year and was often outdated by the time it went to print,” said Jack Wagner. “FindWestmoreland.org brings the idea of a directory into the Internet age, when even those without computers can stop in their local library to visit FindWestmoreland.org on publicly accessible computers..”

The concept for FindWestmoreland originated in 1997 when the Health and Welfare Council of Westmoreland County identified several situations existing within the non-profit arena and in the human services delivery system. These included:

Multiple organizations maintaining the same data and duplicating efforts and expenditures.
A lack of awareness of the total spectrum of community resources available, their locations, service areas, and eligibility requirements.
No effective or affordable method of communicating change between service providers.
Difficult access to information – those most in need of information often had no knowledge of where to go or how to find needed referrals.

FindWestmoreland addresses these issues by providing a “one-stop shop” for both the public and agencies in search of health, social, civic, governmental, faith-based, and community-based services.

Major sponsors of FindWestmoreland include The Community Foundation of Westmoreland County, Westmoreland County Food Bank, Inc., the Untied Way of Westmoreland County, Seton Hill Child Services, Inc., Adelphoi Village, Child Care Information Services of Westmoreland County, Westmoreland Alcohol and Drug Commission, The Westmoreland Trust, and Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Services, Inc.

The Health and Welfare Council of Westmoreland County has grown tremendously since its first meeting in the fall of 1958 at the Easter Seal Society office on North Maple Avenue in Greensburg. Even from that early date, the underlying goals that would result in FindWestmoreland.org had been identified. . Those goals included:

Learning more about the services available in the area.
Getting to know and understand those services and the personnel delivering them.
Working to prevent duplication of services.
Sponsoring and encouraging new services in order to meet the needs of the area.
Compiling a directory of all Health and Welfare services in the area.

The long-term success of FindWestmoreland rests with the ability to continue to identify and develop partner organizations that will provide funding in support of FindWestmoreland, as well as continuing to spread the word throughout Westmoreland County of this exciting new online resource. The more residents and agencies that find the website useful, the more its success will be assured.

InWestmoreland.com is pleased to provide a link to FindWestmoreland.org and to include it in our online directory, where users will be able to find it under Organizations and Social Services / Directories, or by using our own online search field at the top of the home page.

For more information, please visit the Find Westmoreland website at www.FindWestmoreland.org, or contact the Health & Welfare Council of Westmoreland County located at 1011 Old Salem Road – Suite G1, Greensburg, PA 15601. HWCWC’s phone number is 724-836-2273. You can also contact them by email at: Hwcwc@westol.com.

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