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Provides Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) for the mentally developmentally disabled, in a family homelike atmosphere in a community setting. The population of these facilities range in age and profound to moderate in functioning level. Both males and females. Facilities throughout New York City and Long Island.

Provides information and referral, family reimbursements, respite, advocacy, counseling, crisis intervention, home care, recreation, training, and transportation planning services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Provides various levels of support to individuals who are living on their own or with their families. Included is in-home respite services, crisis support, family reimbursement, socialization and organized activity opportunities as well as site-based programming.

Provides a variety of recreational activities including weekend activities, vacations, overnight trips, and bowling for adults 21 and over, with a documented developmental disability. Promotes socialization and peer relationships while enjoying activities in the community with staff support.

Provides financial assistance to people who possess the skills necessary to live independently but require minimal financial assistance/support to live on their own. The amount of assistance a person receives is based on a formula of their income versus their expenditures.

Offers quarterly meetings for parents and professionals to answer critical questions faced by young adults as they prepare to leave their educational placements, transitioning from student services to adult services. Provides workshops, and a Speakers Bureau. Meetings are held at 415A Oser Avenue, Hauppauge, NY. Call for times and additional information.

Enhances social skills of children who are on the autism spectrum in a recreational setting. Prevents social isolation for children who are often not part of peer play groups. Siblings welcome.

Provides dances, basketball leagues and computer classes for special needs children of Nassau County.

Our LifeLong Learning centers offer day programs for adults diagnosed with developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. These programs focus on building a wide-array of skills in the areas of pre-vocational, vocational, communication, and social skills. Individuals are offered opportunities of community involvement through volunteer training programs and volunteer placements with small, local businesses.

Provides assistance to employers seeking to integrate people with disabilities into the workplace and helps companies who are seeking to reach people with disabilities in the consumer marketplace. Call for information.

Offers a weekend respite for campers with physical and developmental disabilities between ages 6-21 years old. Check in is Friday evening at 8pm and check out is Sunday at 3pm. Campers enjoy arts and crafts, music, games, movies, and walks in the woods. The program benefits parents by giving them a break from very demanding responsibilities as their child's caregiver. Call or visit website for dates and additional information.

Provides workshops to parents and care takers who are looking for guidance and legal advice involved with Special Needs.Promotes inclusion and provides anti-bullying presentations to schools. Call for further information

Offers diagnostic and treatment services to children with developmental problems and associated behavioral disorders, from birth through adolescence. Programs include: outpatient and inpatient pediatric consultation preschool and school-age learning diagnostic program neonatal developmental follow-up program Early Childhood Development Program which includes infant/toddler and preschool Early Intervention Program and Adoption Evaluation Center.

Offers touring musical reviews and productions to schools and community organizations. Includes drama workshops to senior organizations and pre-school curriculum based productions. All productions promote inclusion of both actors and audience members.

Provides site based respite services and Supplemental Day Habilitation which includes social and recreational opportunities both in-house and in the community to developmentally disabled adults over the age of 21 who reside in Nassau and Western Suffolk Counties.

Provides services that include residential habilitation, community habilitation, prevocational services, respite, supported employment, assistive technology, environmental modifications, family education and training, plan of care support services, consolidated supports and services, fiscal management services, and intensive behavioral services.

Provides residential habilitation services for deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals. Call for further information.

Provides group community habilitation working with individuals to explore theater, art, music and dance, gardening and other prevocational opportunities in and around the community.

Provides opportunity for six teens with developmental disabilities to participate in existing Counselor In Training program at Great South Junior Travel Camp. Offers opportunity to assist counselors in providing recreation activities to children, and to participate in recreational activities with their peers. Three or six week sessions available. Inclusion setting. Call for further information, application.

Provides an opportunity for 16 developmentally disabled children to participate in the existing YMCA summer camp program in Bay Shore for three week sessions. Inclusion setting. Parents must provide transportation. Call for further information, application.

Provide residential services which include skills training, recreation, and volunteer opportunities. Documentation of developmental disabilities required.

Provides mentally and developmentally disabled adults with independent living skills instruction and money management strategies. Offers medical referrals, health and wellness groups, speech, occupational and physical therapy. Provides assistance in community integration. Conducts needs assessment, treatment and discharge planning.

Volunteers may participate in the following services: Adopt a community, reading stories office work, trips, recreational therapy, occupational therapy, planning special projects, and fund raising. Appointment required. Call for further information.

Offers a Medicaid Waiver Program for developmentally disabled adults. Promotes community integration, independence and choice.

Offers Nassau and Suffolk County residents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their families the ability to select services and providers that are most suited to their needs. Offers self-directed community habilitation, respite and SEMPT (supported employment). Assisted by a Fiscal Intermediary and Support Broker, individuals and family members learn how to implement HCBS (Home & Community Based) waiver services establish a habilitation plan, assess needs, and budget allocated Medicaid funds.