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Provides vocational rehabilitation services to eligible individuals to prepare them for employment (including helping them to further their education) consistent with their strengths, ability and interest. These jobs can be in the competitive workforce, self-owned businesses in the home, sheltered workshops or in supported employment in the community. Also works with students, families and school districts to coordinate appropriate services for students with disabilities who are leaving secondary education and entering adult vocational rehabilitation.

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School to Adult Life Transition Services
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Fundamental to the Community Independence Program is the belief that individuals with developmental disabilities can and should be given the opportunity to determine the content and character of the service they receive, identify the goals to which they aspire, and choose the individuals that would provide them with assistance in identifying and attaining their goals.

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Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Case / Care Management
Fosters communication among healthcare professionals, parents, school-age patients, and school personnel in preparation for a child's return to school after cancer treatment.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Provides vocational rehabilitation services to eligible individuals to prepare them for employment (including helping them to further their education) consistent with their strengths, ability and interest. These jobs can be in the competitive workforce, self-owned businesses in the home, sheltered workshops or in supported employment in the community. Also works with students, families and school districts to coordinate appropriate services for students with disabilities who are leaving secondary education and entering adult vocational rehabilitation.

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School to Adult Life Transition Services
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Provides pre-vocational services, beginning in elementary school, with career education being infused across the curriculum in various activities. Students in the upper grades receive a range of services, such as transition counseling, vocational assessment which is geared toward helping students acquire the skills necessary to succeed in society and in their community, and are delivered both in the classroom and in the community.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
SAIL provides information, advice, and assistance to youth with disabilities transitioning from school, family members, and other interested parties concerning transition planning and adult services and supports. The center also provides advocacy for transition planning, and assistance with the CSE process. SAIL provides assistance and support to individuals who are facing transitions in their lives. This includes transitions from Early Intervention Programs to school-based programs, transitions from school to work and/or adult services, transitions from living at home to moving into individual living arrangements, and other life transitions.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Assists students in developing their own transition plan and to implement it through education, coordination of benefits and services, and group work.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
SAIL provides information, advice, and assistance to youth with disabilities transitioning from school, family members, and other interested parties concerning transition planning and adult services and supports. The center also provides advocacy for transition planning, and assistance with the CSE process. SAIL provides assistance and support to individuals who are facing transitions in their lives. This includes transitions from Early Intervention Programs to school-based programs, transitions from school to work and/or adult services, transitions from living at home to moving into individual living arrangements, and other life transitions.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Offers individual, family and group counseling, behavior management as well as information and referral for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism and their families. A therapeutic, adult, social, and recreational club meet weekly to work on goals that include increasing socialization and self-advocacy skills. Also provide a transition program for adolescents going to adulthood, including case management for children and adults with developmental disabilities.

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Parent Support Groups
Health / Disability Related Counseling
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Behavior Modification
Case / Care Management
Stress Management
Family support and home and community based services available to children with developmental disabilities.

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Health/Disability Related Counseling
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Special Education Classes/Centers
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Children's In Home Respite Care
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
ATI provides youth and young adults a variety of opportunities to overcome barriers and to make a successful transition to independent living, education and / or employment. ATI offers a variety of community- and school-based transition planning and support services to youth and their families.One-on-one peer counseling, independent living skills training and educational support services combined with ATI's work readiness services aim to help youth become more engaged in their own planning and help to bridge school-based transition plans with opportunities in the community.ATI also offers specialized Educational Advocacy Services to youth and parents for Committee on Special Needs (CSE) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings and navigating school and community services. Specifically, ATI provides the following youth transition services: - Transition planning and support services - Educational advocacy - Peer mentoring - Community-based, self-determination and self-advocacy training - School-based workshops and training groups - Work readiness and employment services
SLIP provided youth with support and assistance to transition to total independent. SILP has a focus of responsibility on the youth, with a philosophy of learning by doing. Young adults (ages 16 to 21) reside in subsidized community-based apartments and learn the skills necessary to become self sufficient, healthy, and achieve independence. Residents may remain in the program until age 21.Mother-Baby SILP provides community-based services for young teenage mothers and their children in the same supported living environment as the SILP program.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Provides services to disabled students ages 3 to 21 years old.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Adapted Physical Education
Special Education Plan Development
Special Education Classes/Centers
Provides transition support for students as they leave high school to enter college or the workforce and for adults who want to go back to school or obtain employment. Services include assistance applying for ACCES-VR services, adult education, and GED Classes and assistance with benefits, such as SSI/SSD, Medicaid, Public Assistance, and SNAP. Also offers job preparation and training and ADA advocacy, rights, and awareness.

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Continuing Education
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Adult Basic Education
A12-month school program that provides intensive clinical and special education services to enhance the functioning of children and their families with the ultimate goal of maintaining children in the community and preserving the family unit. Program serves 18 boys and girls (5-12 yrs at admission) with a Committee on Special Education classification of emotionally disturbed or psychiatric diagnosis with psychotic features, or if without psychotic features, experiencing a functional deficit in home, school or peer relations.

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Early Intervention for Mental Illness
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Community Mental Health Agencies
Special Education Classes/Centers
Offers courses and programs for adult students who have developmental disabilities. Services include non-credit courses and seminars, supplemental day habilitation, and transition services.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Postsecondary Opportunities for People With Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
The program serves students with two or more disabling conditions that result in multi-sensory or motor deficiencies. Services include skill development, self-management, language, mealtime, motor activity, occupational, physical and speech/language therapies, adaptive physical education and nursing. Also provides supported employment and transitional services for older students.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Occupational Therapy
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Supported Employment
Case / Care Management
Physical Therapy
Offers supported employment opportunities which include job development, job coaching, person centered vocational profiles, vocational assessments, vocational planning, counseling, employment, job training, job placement, and transitional support to school age students.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Special Needs Job Development
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Supported Employment
Provides behavior management, counseling, crisis intervention, family reimbursement, guardianship assistance, benefits and entitlements assistance, home modification, independent living skills, information and referral, parenting skills for parents of developmentally disabled children (in or out of home), service coordination/case management, support groups, and transitional planning for persons with developmental disabilities of all ages. Developmentally disabled parent training is provided to first time parents with a developmental disability. Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Program available for parents of children with autism.

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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Applied Behavioral Analysis
Health / Disability Related Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
In Person Crisis Intervention
Case / Care Management
Adult Guardianship Assistance
Child Guardianship Assistance
Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Behavior Modification
General Benefits Assistance
Home Barrier Evaluation / Removal Services
Supported employment and school transitional services for adults ages 18 and over with developmental disabilities and students aging out of school.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Supported Employment
To meet the needs of students with multiple disabilities, SNAP provides students a small class milieu in a Total Communication, Language Rich Environment (LRE). Instruction, adapted from the New York State Education Department standards, is provided using Total Communication - spoken, signed and written language - to meet students' individual communication needs. Student progress is assessed, pending eligibility, by the New York State Alternative Assessment (NYSAA). The goals of the program are to prepare students to care for themselves; to develop social awareness and social skills which will enable the individual to function as social beings in the community; to achieve emotional growth which will enable the individual to maintain the lifestyle of choice; to develop motor skills; to develop personal and home management skills required for self sufficiency; to select and prepare for an occupation; to develop intellectual skills which will lead to responsible and independent citizenship; and to develop the ability to use leisure time well and in a way that will enhance creativity and enjoyment of life. Related services, including Speech, Physical and Occupational Therapies, as well as counseling are available. Audiological services such as hearing tests and minor device repair (hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.) are provided on-site by licensed audiologists. Adapted physical education is also available. A therapeutic after school program is available, as is a 5 day residential program. Emphasis is placed on Daily Living Skills and transition from school to adult life.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Serves people with Developmental Disabilities under OPWDD in multiple ways: - Assists individuals and their families to obtain OPWDD eligibility. - Provides transition services to young adults in the areas of independent living skills, higher education, and employment readiness skills. - Provides community habilitation and transportation services for OPWDD eligible individuals. - Offers a recreational dance program.

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Dance Therapy
Disability Related Transportation
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Seeks to improve the system of care for children and youth with special health care needs and their families. The program helps shape public policy so families can get the best health care for their children. A diagnosis is NOT required. Services include: - Matching families with community resources and referring to community programs - Advocacy with health care providers and school districts - Linkage to medical providers and specialists - Support and play groups - Transportation services - Translation and interpretation services - Transition to adult services and more

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Caregiver / Care Receiver Support Groups
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Children's Play Groups
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Health / Disability Related Support Groups
Personal Health Care Advocate Services

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Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Provides case management and educational advocacy support for children with disabilities and their families. Provides Pre-Employment Transition Services to school age youth between the ages of 14-21. Provides screenings, assessments, ancillary services (PT, OT, speech therapy), respite, and health and mental health clinic services.

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Special Education Advocacy
Physical Therapy
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Case / Care Management
Developmental Assessment
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Children's Out of Home Respite Care