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Mission: The mission of aim is to support an individual's ability to make independent, self-directing choices through education, advocacy, information and referral.
Programs: Consumer directed personal assistance program - provides training programs for individuals with disabilities. Consumers served: 182
ilc & other: one of aim's primary services is its individual consumer advocacy. Advocates work with individual consumers to help them accomplish their independence goals. Aim employs trained and certified navigators to help new yorkers with the state's new health plan marketplace. Individuals, families and small businesses can use the marketplace to compare insurance options, calculate costs and select coverage. Aim's navigators can assist with the entire process. Education regarding disability awareness and aim services is provided through workshops, presentations, community fairs and seminars. A presentation of technical assistive devices for improving the lives of seniors is available. Counties served were: allegany, chemung, steuben, schuyler, tioga counties. Consumers served: 3,357
opwdd-the family support services program assists families who are caring for a relative with a developmental disability at home by aiding the caregivers and thereby enhancing family stability and preserving the family unity. People who are enrolled in the opwdd home and community based services (hcbs) waiver can choose to direct their own services. Consumers served: 61