Community Outreach to Individuals with Disabilities

Glens Falls, NY
The Glens Falls Association for the Blind, Inc., is an independent, private, non-profit organization, founded in 1935. We are dedicated to preventing blindness and promoting the well-being of blind and visually impaired persons in all ways. The Association is committed to equipping visually limited persons with the skills needed for independent and productive life in the community.

Hempstead, NY
Helen Keller Services for the Blind helps people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired to develop independence and to participate actively and fully in their communities.

New York, NY
Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity to enrich lives and enhance human progress for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services, arts, and health care programs.

Buffalo, NY
Heritage Centers creates opportunities for growth, independence, productivity, choice and satisfaction for children and adults with disabilities, and their families, by providing comprehensive quality services. Heritage Centers supports children and adults with disabilities, and their families, in achieving their desired quality of life by creating opportunities through comprehensive services.

Batavia, NY
Western New York Independent Living, Inc. family of agencies is a catalyst for systems and individual change, enhancing the quality of life for persons with disabilities, while respecting diversity, and promoting choices and alternatives for independent living in our societies.

New York, NY
At Yad HaChazakah-JDEC, we proclaim “Strength through Access and Community” Individuals with disabilities or ongoing conditions are strengthened through access to Jewish community life, resources, and opportunities. We also gain strength through supporting and networking with each other. In turn, Jewish communities are strengthened through access to a variety of individuals who were typically unseen or unheard and who have much to offer.

New York, NY
Job Path supports people with developmental disabilities in their efforts to make choices about their lives. Job Path encourages people to explore what they want out of life and to chart their own journeys. Then we provide the opportunities and support for them to succeed at whatever they want -- whether it's paid or volunteer work, living in their own homes, or participating in community life. Job Path is a reflective organization where staff ca...

Geneseo, NY
ACCES-VR starts with the presumption that all persons with disabilities can benefit from vocational rehabilitation services and should have opportunities to- work in jobs integrated within their communities. VR Counselors guide individuals through service programs they need to reach their employment goals.

Niagara Falls, NY
Managed Care Network, Inc., designs and implements medical case management and return- to- work programs for both employers and insurance carriers across New York State. Founded in 1995, by its President, Jeanne Battaglia, MS, CRC, the company now employs the largest private Vocational Rehabilitation staff in the state.

Niagara Falls, NY
Managed Care Network, Inc., designs and implements medical case management and return- to- work programs for both employers and insurance carriers across New York State. Founded in 1995, by its President, Jeanne Battaglia, MS, CRC, the company now employs the largest private Vocational Rehabilitation staff in the state.

Massena, NY
The MILC, like all Independent Living Centers (ILCs) has the important but unfulfilled Mission of working to ensure that we and our Nation’s more that 45 million fellow people experiencing disabilities are one day able to participate in, and be considered as equals in, all areas and aspects of the American way of life.

Brooklyn, NY
The ultimate purpose of the National Federation of the Blind is the complete integration of the blind into society on a basis of equality. This objective involves the removal of legal, economic, and social discriminations; the education of the public to new concepts concerning blindness; and the achievement by all blind people of the right to exercise to the fullest their individual talents and capacities. It means the right of the blind to work ...

New York, NY
ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.

New York, NY
The New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC) is an association of workforce development practitioners — community based organizations, community colleges and union affiliated training programs — committed to providing high quality education, training and employment services to unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers. To that end, the Coalition provides staff development, research and technical assistance to member organizations a...

Rensselaer, NY
The Office of Children and Family Services serves New York's public by promoting the safety, permanency and well-being of our children, families and communities. We will achieve results by setting and enforcing policies, building partnerships, and funding and providing quality services.

Watertown, NY
NRCIL is a disability rights and resource center that promotes community efforts to end discrimination, segregation, and prejudice against people with disabilities, by working with community partners to create an accessible, inclusive society. Through NRCIL, people discover choices to live more independently, with enhanced dignity.

Watertown, NY
NRCIL is a disability rights and resource center that promotes community efforts to end discrimination, segregation, and prejudice against people with disabilities, by working with community partners to create an accessible, inclusive society. Through NRCIL, people discover choices to live more independently, with enhanced dignity.

Albany, NY
The mission of the New York State Department of Labor is to protect workers, assist the unemployed and connect job seekers to jobs. We vigorously enforce state Labor Laws to give businesses that obey the law an even break. We work aggressively to ensure a fair wage for all workers. We protect the safety and health of workers and the public. We help the unemployed via temporary payments (unemployment insurance). We link job seekers with employers....

Buffalo, NY
OAHIIO provides "walls free" mobile services on and off Western New York's Native territories to Native's with disabilities, who wish to improve their quality of life and ability to live independently. All requests for NAILS services, communication and information regarding services received from participants is kept strictly confidential and used only for meeting participant needs and achieving participant goals.

Brooklyn, NY
The mission of Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow is to provide employment training, academic reinforcement, improved life skills, job placement, and support services to at-risk youth and adults, helping them to recognize their own self-worth and achieve self-sufficiency.