Trained staff link those needing human services with community agencies. Service is quick, free, confidential, and usually provided by telephone. You will be given several options from among 1200 public, private for profit, and private non-profit organizations serving the Northern Virginia area. You decide who to contact from the choices presented. Trained staff link citizens needing human services with community agencies.
Service is quick, free, confidential, and usually provided by telephone.
These staff also assist in gathering and updating data on community resources, both public and private, and collect data on unmet needs. In 1974 these groups began to collaborate to develop a regional system for collecting, disseminating, and maintaining information on local human services. The protocol was based on an assumption that it was more efficient and cost effective to provide for the creation and maintenance of a centralized regional database than to create and maintain separate data collection efforts in each jurisdiction. The jurisdictions, on their part, assist in verifying the information for the database and participate in a task force that periodically reassesses the content and format of the database and the directory itself. The NVRC database lists approximately 1,200 service providers and 4,400 services.