Family & Children’s Service of the Capital Region, Inc. (doing business as Capital Counseling and Capital EAP) is one of the oldest continuously operating nonprofit organizations in the United States, serving the Capital Region since 1814.

Capital Counseling provides accessible, compassionate mental health counseling services for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families throughout the Greater Capital Region. Our licensed clinicians support individuals facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, life transitions, and other behavioral health concerns. We are committed to ensuring that quality mental health care remains available and affordable to our community regardless of background or circumstance.

 

Through our Capital EAP division, we also partner with employers, municipalities, school districts, healthcare organizations, and first responders to provide Employee Assistance Program services that strengthen workplace wellness and support employees and their families during difficult times.

 

Each year, our organization helps thousands of individuals improve their emotional well-being, strengthen family relationships, and build healthier, more resilient lives. As community needs for mental health services continue to grow, we remain dedicated to reducing barriers to care and expanding access to support throughout the Capital Region.

The Capital Region chapter of Toys for Tots covers 14 counties in upstate NY. We are an entirely volunteer run non-profit. Our chapter is the largest Toys for Tots chapter in the world with outreach of over 700,000 children in need in our local area. Our purpose is giving children a sense of hope and show them their community cares. Though their families may be experiencing financial burdens, the children shouldn't have to lack having their own toy and a feeling of joy. We don't only support children during the holiday season, but all year round with different holidays, donations to foster homes, literacy programs, and busy backpacks for police to give to children in emergency situations, and more! We are only successful through the hard work of our volunteers and through the donations of toys, school supplies, winter wear, blankets, and monetary gifts from our community members.

Celebrating 15 years in rescue, Kitten Angels was incorporated in 2011 after our director, who has over 40 years of rescue experience, attempted to address the one shortcoming of TNR work at that time, which was addressing the at-risk kittens who were not being taken in during normal TNR procedures.

Our Mission statement is to help orphaned and abandoned kittens, mothers with kittens, and pregnant mothers receive socialization through foster care to become part of loving homes. As the program has evolved over the last fourteen years, so to have the needs of the communities we operate in. Often, we have been asked to take in adult cats in need as well as rehoming owned pets when their owners can no longer care for them. When we have the volunteers and ability to do this, we do. Kitten Angels policy has always been to take back any of our previously adopted cats from our program no matter what the reason or when they are returned.

All of our cats are Spay or neutered, vaccinated with age appropriate vaccines and tested for FeLV and FIV before Adoption. In 2024 we hit a milestone with our adoption totals exceeding 1500 cats and kittens being adopted. Our annual intake is 1500-2000 cats with the end goal of adoption but for those that cannot be socialized we perform limited TNR as well as having a working program otherwise known as a barn cat program for the ones we cannot socialize. Kitten Angels is 100% volunteer run with no paid employees. All our cats and kittens are in foster homes as well as our 5 PetSmart and 1 Petco pet partner locations where we conduct adoptions throughout the week. We depend on donations, grants, and fundraising to sustain our efforts. We utilize Petfinder as well as our Facebook page to advertise our available cats.

Night Out For You Inc. is a 100% volunteer-run non-profit serving residents of the greater Capital Region that provides a personalized ""Night Out"" experience for local adults currently undergoing cancer treatment in order to allow those patients (and their loved ones) to feel like themselves again by ""taking a few hours off from cancer"". A NOFY Experience is a mental health break from cancer, and can be whatever outing would bring joy, connection, and respite to the cancer patient. Examples range from professional sports games, trips to NYC, concerts, plays, outdoor activities, spa days, and more...all planned and funded through Night Out For You.

 

Formed by Kate Hockford, a stage 4 cancer patient herself, NOFY is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2026 and now provides more than 50 customized Experiences each year.

We are a Food Pantry serving households in need who reside in the Shenendehowa and Burnt Hill-Ballston Lake School Districts.

Competitive sports breed common ground. Athletes, coaches and the people who support them come together for the love of a sport or the thrill of a game. Not everyone wins.

 

Through Special Olympics New York, though, everyone is included. Athletes with intellectual disabilities have the opportunity to challenge themselves in fair and even competition. Win or lose, they develop their own character, make friends and find unknown wells of determination within themselves.

 

If you’re a fan of unity, acceptance, empowerment, dignity, pride and fun, you’re a fan of Special Olympics New York.

 

You’re one of us.

Things of My Very Own, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides crisis intervention services to children:

Impacted by extensive abuse and/or neglect
At-risk of a Child Protective Services intervention
Our goal is to keep children together with non-abusive family members and out of the foster care system, whenever possible.

Together for Youth (TFY) has been a leading provider of child welfare services for 140 years, serving children and families in communities across New York State. The mission of TFY is to empower youth and families to live safely, independently, and productively in their communities and serves more than 7,300 youth and families each year through a continuum of care that includes preventative services, foster care, group home, detention, and behavioral health services. Each service aims to promote healing, build resilience, and create opportunities for long-term success. Guided by evidence-based practices and a deep commitment to collaboration, TFY delivers compassionate care that helps families thrive.