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33.5. Additional Programs or Resources
Able Newspaper
Phone: (516) 939-2253
Phone: (718) 792-3533
Able Newspaper is an established, widely known publication in the disability community; a monthly newspaper that is published for, by and about the disabled, with the focus on the Able.
Center for Assistive Technology
Phone: (716) 836-1168
The Center for Assistive Technology, housed within the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo, conducts research, education, and service to increase knowledge about assistive devices for persons with functional impairments of all ages.
Community Options, Inc.
Phone: (609) 951-9900
Community Options provides housing, support services and advocacy assistance to help empower people with disabilities.
Consumer Directed Choices
Phone: (518) 464-0810
CDChoices is an enrolled provider within the New York State Medicaid- funded program called Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (CDPA). As a provider of consumer self-direction, CDChoices empowers independence and advocates for people with disabilities, seniors, and their families. CDChoices partners with qualified consumers of all New York counties to provide fiscal intermediary services.
Consumer Directed Services
Phone: (718)233-3312
This agency assists consumers with finding a personal care assistant, offers a free newsletter and free services to consumers and Personal Care candidates
Citizens United to Remove Barriers (C.U.R.B.)
Citizens United to Remove Barriers (C.U.R.B.) is a local, non-profit organization which gives the physically challenged a chance to live a life free of barriers. Funding is provided for wheelchair ramps and lifts in and around the homes of those in need within Nassau County.
Destination:Accessible
Destination:Accessible provides first-hand, detailed accessibility information of leisure locations (museums, theaters, parks, restaurants, kid=friendly venues and other popular places) . We offer information on parking, grounds, entrances, ease of navigation, elevators, steps, ramps, food services, restrooms, seating and anything else pertinent to someone with a mobility challenge. We are not a review site, like Yelp or Trip Advisor. All of our destinations has been personally visited by us. We do not tell anyone where to go. We simply want them to "know before they go," what they will find when they get there, in order to have the best experience possible. Most of our venues are on Long Island and the NY Metro area.
Disabled In Action
Post Office Box 30954, Port Authority Station, New York, New York, 10011
Phone: (718) 261-3737
Fax: (718) 261-3737
A civil rights organization committed to ending discrimination against people with disabilities.
Easter Seals New York
Phone: (800) 727-8785
Easter Seals New York provides programs and services to children and adults with disabilities and other special needs, and their families. Our goal is to help individuals with special needs gain dignity, equality and independence.
GallopNYC
Phone: 646-233-4507
GallopNYC is a non-profit organization based in New York City that offers therapeutic horsemanship programs to children and adults with disabilities.
Helen Hayes Hospital Smart Apartment
The Smart Apartment is an interactive model that replicates a typical home, but with one very important difference: it is equipped with an array of assistive technology that enables individuals with disabilities to control their surroundings. This state-of-the-art interactive Smart Apartment located on the hospital campus, the first of its kind, gives patients and community members the opportunity to experience a variety of devices that may help them live autonomously in their own homes.
Independent Living, Inc
Phones/Locations:
Newburgh: (845) 565-1162
Middletown: (845) 342-1162
Monticello: (845) 794-3322
Since 1987, Independent Living, Inc. has served as a common voice for persons with disabilities living in our community. As a freestanding, locally controlled, nonprofit agency operated by people with disabilities, we offer a wide range of programs and services dedicated to ensuring universal access and opportunity in every aspect of community life.
Our efforts are directed to individuals of all ages having any disability, as well as to families, businesses, agencies, and municipalities. We are committed to the universal elimination of physical and attitudinal barriers, as well as assisting individuals with disabilities to successfully make the transition from system-dependency to independence.
Independent Living, Inc. has touched the lives of literally thousands of people. Having a uniquely recipient-based perspective and approach to addressing disability issues, we have consistently exemplified cost-effective ways of improving the quality of lives of persons with disabilities. Every year, our Centers provide a diversity of important resources to residents of our community.
Jackson-Stricks Scholarship Fund
Phone: (212) 687-5030 Ext. 17
The Jackson-Stricks Scholarship Fund provides financial aid to a physically challenged person for academic study or vocational training that leads to independent living.
Motion Project Quality of Life Grant Program
The Motion Project Quality of Life Grant Program enables our foundation to offer grant awards to qualifying individuals. The grant award they receive will help them obtain critical items such as rehabilitation therapy, home and vehicle modifications, and medical equipment. Motion Project Foundation, formerly Wheels With Wings Foundation, funds Quality of Life Grants for residences of the 17 counties that comprise the Western New York Region of New York
Neighborhood Legal Services
Phone: (716) 847-0650
Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. (NLS) is a not-for-profit agency located in Buffalo, New York. NLS provides free legal services to persons with low-income and persons with disabilities. It also provides a wide range of technical assistance and support services. While the majority of its services are provided within Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming Counties, New York, NLS also provides disability-related services for all of Western New York and operates both a Statewide and National Assistive Technology Advocacy Project to assist persons with disabilities and the advocates and agencies that serve them.
New York City ADAPT
Phone: (212) 727-0789
Contact: Nadina LaSpina
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
New York State's Accessible Housing Registry
Phone: (212) 674-2300 Ext. 1788
This website provides information about accessible housing located throughout New York State. Persons with disabilities, as well as their advocates, can search for housing by location (town, zip code, county and major metropolitan areas), and/or by specific income, age, or disability requirements to obtain comprehensive information about housing opportunities that may meet their needs.
Parent to Parent of New York State
Phone: (866) 727-6970
a place where families of individuals with special needs and the professionals who support them can meet and share information.
Rebuilding Together Dutchess County
(845) 454-7310
Our mission is to assure that low-income homeowners, particularly those who are elderly, with disabilities, or have school-aged children live in warmth, safety, and independence.
Rebuilding Together Long Island
(516) 541-7322
Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc. is a program to repair and rehabilitate the homes of poor, elderly and disabled homeowners. It brings together people of all faiths and walks of life in an effort to assist people in need. It is non-partisan, non sectarian and non-profit. Rebuilding Together Long Island, Inc. performs repairs in the following areas: electrical, plumbing, wall repair, weather-stripping, lock-smithing, carpentry, painting, glazing and home modifications including wheelchair ramps.
Rebuilding Together Mohawk Valley
Phone: (315) 280-8083
Rebuilding Together Mohawk Valley is an organization in which volunteers fix up the homes of Mohawk Valley residents who are unable to do the work themselves. Repairs and renovations differ from house to house. The work may include: painting, carpentry, plumbing, electrical, weatherization, clean-up, yard work and other necessary repairs. Applicants must be low-income, elderly or disabled persons who live in the Utica area and both own and live in their home.
Rebuilding Together NYC
212-362-1636
Rebuilding Together NYC is a nonprofit organization that repairs the homes of low - income and at - risk homeowners, particularly elderly, physically challenged, families with children and/or veterans. All services completed are free of charge and cover all five boroughs of New York City.
Rebuilding Together Saratoga County
518-587-3315
Rebuilding Together Saratoga County is a volunteer driven, registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization that brings communities and volunteers together to make free repairs to the homes of low income property owners, particularly the elderly, disabled and veteran, allowing them to live in warmth, safety and independence while respecting their dignity.
Rochester NY ADAPT
Phone: (585) 546-7510
Contact: Bruce Darling
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
Sinergia
Phone: (212) 496-1300
Since its founding, Sinergia has remained faithful to its twin goals. The first and most immediate is to provide service coordination, information, and support to families and individuals in need. The second, long-term goal is to provide families and individuals with the means of self-empowerment, ultimately enabling them to become their own advocates and directly assist other families.
STRIDE Adaptive Sports
Phone: (518)598-1279
STRIDE Adaptive Sports is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides over 8,000 adaptive sport and recreation lessons each year to individuals with disabilities, focusing on youth and Wounded Warriors.
The Advocacy Center
Phone: (800) 650-4967
The Advocacy Center is a non-profit organization located in New York State that educates, supports, and advocates with people who have disabilities, their families, and circles of support.
The Independence Foundation
Phone: (716) 685-3976
The Independence Foundation is dedicated to providing support and assistance to physically disabled individuals so that they may live independent, self-directed lives. It is our goal to provide opportunities for the physically disabled in accessible housing (partnering with People Inc.), employment, social activities, community involvement, and recreation. Also sponsor college scholarship for people with physical disabilities.
Top Chef Meals
Phone: (914) 372-7080
Contact: Westchester Office
Phone: (212) 905-5060
Contact: Manhattan Office
Top Chef Meals offers affordable customized meal service delivered throughout New York State for less than $7.00 per meal. Our nutritious meals are freshly prepared by chefs using only the finest ingredients the market has to offer. This unique service lets you choose your entree and pair it with your choice of two side dishes. The meals are then immediately flash frozen to seal in their flavor. Delivered to you frozen the very next day. All you have to do is heat and eat... 20% discount for all seniors, disabled and homebound
Wheels of Progress
Phone: (347) 645-3265
Their mission is to create affordable, accessible supportive housing and provide transformative environments, education, and experiences for people living with a spinal cord injury or other physical disabilities. By combining apartment-style housing with personal care and services, residents will be able to live independently with dignity and privacy.