Disability Resources at Your Favorite Things

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• Regional: North America: United States: Society and Culture: Disability Resources  (22)

• Abilities and LifeStyles - Non-profit corporation designing and implementing housing and medical care for the disabled,seniors, low income and the homeless.
• Abilities Network - Coalition of agencies serving people with disabilities.
• Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc. - Works to educate and train parents, and those working with parents about the laws that govern the education of children with disabilities or conditions that impede their ability to learn and successfully matriculate through the public school system. Includes programs, workshops, events and employment opportunities.
• Deaf-REACH - Maximizes the self-sufficiency of socially and economically disadvantaged, multihandicapped deaf persons by providing referral services, education, advocacy, counseling, and housing. Officially known as the National Health Care Foundation for the Deaf.
• Disability Resources - Provides contact information for organizations, offices, and groups.
• District of Columbia Department of Human Services - Developmental Disabilities - Promotes a consumer and family-center comprehensive system for developmentally disabled individuals. Includes programs.
• The District of Columbia Mental Retardation Volunteer Advocates Association,Inc. - Works to ensure that the constitutional rights of those individuals with mental and developmental disabilities, who have cases reviewed by the Court, are protected and that those clients receive the best service available from the District or businesses contracted through the District government. Includes mission statement.
• Easter Seals - Assists people with disabilities in living independently.
• Family Village - Information, resources, and communication opportunities for persons with disabilities.
• Green Door - Works to prepare people with severe and persistent mental illness to work and live independently. Include programs, services, employment opportunities and membership information.
• Jewish Social Service Agency - Services for People with Disabilities - Provides counseling, therapy, workshops, hospice, home care, career and adoption services in the metropolitan area. Includes a program calendar.
• L'Arche Washington, DC - Offers permanent special needs housing for men and women with developmental disabilities. Includes membership information, news and events.
• Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped - Provides Braille and audio library services.
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill DC - Facilitates self-help groups for mental health consumers, family members and friends. Features support groups.
• Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities, Inc. - Works to advance the individual and collective interests of consumers with developmental disabilities and mental retardation. Includes news, employment opportunities, staff profiles, events and a newsletter.
• Regional Disabilities Resources - Provides local transit information for persons with disabilities.
• SOC Enterprises - Provides job training, placement, coaching, and follow-along services to people with severe developmental and physical disabilities.
• University Legal Services Assistive Technology Program for the District of Columbia - ULS/ATPDC - Works to improve the District's capacity to provide appropriate assistive technology devices and services for all Washingtonians with disabilities. Includes programs, services, calendar and newsletter. [English, Spanish]
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: Accessibility - Explains accessibility features. Includes elevator status, reduced fares, identification cards and information for out-of-town visitors.
• WVSA Arts Connection - Non-profit organization uses the arts and education to work with children and youth who are at-risk with special needs. Includes programs, calendar, research, publications and volunteer opportunities.