Services

ADA Consultation/Environmental Modification Consultation & Access to Home Services

Directed to individuals, local municipalities, commercial property owners, employers, businesses, schools and provider agencies, these services help persons with disabilities to remain at home (or return home) while playing a vitally important role in ensuring compliance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services (OPTIONS)

For persons with disabilities, including seniors, OPTIONS is made available in cooperation with the local Departments of Social Services in Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, and Dutchess Counties. Offers a unique alternative to traditional attendant care, giving individuals who receive services the opportunity to decide how, when and by whom their personal attendant needs are addressed.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services

Providing a bridge between the Deaf and Hearing cultures in Orange, Ulster, Sullivan and Dutchess counties, this program is actively engaged in community outreach and education, advocacy, service coordination counseling and technical support.

Early Childhood Direction Center (ECDC)

Providing disability-related service and information to families of children from birth to 5 years of age, and offering technical support to schools, day care centers, and child care professionals in Orange, Sullivan, Dutchess and Ulster Counties.

Employment Services

Authorized contractor for work-readiness assessments and job placement services for NY State Department of Vocational & Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID), Commission for the Blind (CBVH) and Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabiliites (OMRDD). Ongoing employment support provided.

Family Services

Providing an array of services for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families including an after-school learning enrichment program for students, a Community Independence Program that offers independent living training for persons with disabilities, Saturday activity/respite program, and supported employment services.

Homeless Services

Providing a rental subsidy for permanent housing and case management services to individuals with disabilities who are homeless.

Long Term Care Services

Focused on the transition and diversion of individuals with disabilities, including the frail elderly, from nursing facilities to least restrictive settings (consistent with the 1999 Olmstead Ruling of the United States Supreme Court). This person-centered program works closely with individuals, family members and significant others, hospital and nursing facility discharge planners, Points of Entry, the Regional Resource Development Center, the local Department of Social Services, the Office for the Aging, CASA and Home and Community Based Services waiver programs, with the goals of providing objective information about choices and opportunities, offering transitional support and assistance, and ultimately providing people with the opportunity to remain at home if they choose to do so.

Mental Health Services

Aimed at helping people with psychiatric disabilities, including those at continuing risk of homelessness to overcome stigma, connect with needed supports, build constructive relationships with peers, advocate on their own behalf, define and pursue their personal “journeys to wellness,” and make the transition from system dependence to independence.

Mental Health Case Management Services

Offering a holistic, person-centered approach to facilitating connections with provider agencies and community amenities, and aimed at ensuring long-term residential stability, personal recovery, health and general well being. Our staff members are on site at the Cornerstone Residence.

The Community Partnership

Located at 72 Broadway (Newburgh) and serving persons with psychiatric & co-occurring addictive disabilities with the goal of aiding in the prevention of homelessness, this program provides wrap-around support, including core independent living services. Our bridgers are on-site and on-call at local hospitals to assist individuals being discharged from the mental health units to connect with necessary supports for their continuing journey of recovery.

Service Coordination

Aimed at helping individuals with Developmental Disabilities (DD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and individuals transitioning from nursing facilities (NHTD) or wishing to return home from rehabilitation facilities, to make connections with needed services and community supports.

Student Services

Providing information, education and support for families of students with developmental disabilities with concerns about their child’s education. Working directly with students with disabilities, ages 14-21, to provide support, resources, and self-advocacy training during the transition from school to adult life.

Systems Advocacy

Member of the Statewide Systems Advocacy Network, a group of eighteen independent living centers throughout New York State which collaborates with other disability organizations to ensure that legislation affecting people with disabilities is introduced, passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor.

Work Incentives Planning and Assistance

Offering consultative and supportive services aimed at increasing independence for recipients of SSDI and/or SSI benefits by providing information and education on available work incentives.

Promoting Choice, Self-Determination and Total Participation