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Causes: Job Training, Vocational Rehabilitation
Mission: Provide inclusive, community programs and family support to facilitate increasing opportunities for people with disbilities and their families.
Programs: The organization receives funding for a community parent resource center that assist students that fall under any of the 13 categories of idea-defined students with disabilities and their parents in new york and long island areas. The goals of the organization are to increase parents' knowledge and capacity to assist their children with disabilities in improving their early intervention, school-aged, and postsecondary outcomes; and increase the capacity of youths with disabilities to be effective self-advocates.
youth programs aim to increase the capacity of youth with disabilities to become an effective self-advocate by providing self-determination academ, sexuality and sex-abuse prevention workshops, and transition resource sessions.
workforce development programs consist of youth financial literacy programs, community outreach for american disability act and disability rights and referral services to nys education department acces-vr and nys opwdd