Offers a number of programs designed to meet the needs of children with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. Services include: - Respite Services: Offers planned short-term and time-limited opportunities for families and care providers to have some personal time. - Employment Services: Helps adults and youth to obtain and retain competitive employment through vocational counseling, employment training programs, work experience acquisition, soft skills development, rehabilitation services, and support services to help youth obtain, maintain, or advance in competitive employment or self-employment. - Children's Health Homes/Care Management: Includes care coordination, comprehensive transitional care, individual and family support, and referral to community and social support services as needed. - Community Habilitation: Assists youth living at home with a loved one or independently in the community to maintain or develop the highest level of independence possible for them. - Community Based Day Habilitation: Promotes community inclusion and integration. - Family Reimbursement Program: Covers expenses for goods and services needed to care for a loved one with a developmental disability who lives at home. - Self-Directed Services: Enables individuals to make choices about their staff, supports, and services. - Preventive Services: Provides support to help families learn the necessary skills to ensure their children remain at home and out of foster care placement. - Behavioral Health Services: Includes community habilitation, caregiver/family supports and services, pre-vocational services, and supported employment. - Project C.O.A.C.H.: Provides telephone counseling, referral, outreach, and intervention/prevention for individuals and families.

Provides services for job seeking, skills training, job development, job placement, information and referral, and job coaching as appropriate and necessary.

Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.

Provides opportunities for individuals with mental health diagnoses to participate in various work units and educational areas.

* Offers various programs related to Health Disparities, Employment, Inclusive Recreation, Community Education for individuals of all ages who have developmental disabilities.* Offers the Project SEARCH program, which provides training and education leading to competitive employment.* Conducts research and education to reduce health disparities for individuals with developmental disabilities.

* Provides services and programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities or other challenges, such as: Aging Services for all populations. Broker services. Respite. Residential habilitation. Independent living skill training. Day services. Recreation services for children. Supported employment and placement services. Residential services. Vocational training. Autism Services at The Arc Ontario. Bus transportation for participants and the general public. Pet Connections - a training for individuals interested in training their dogs to be therapy dogs.

Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.

Program offers services, assistance, information, advocacy and referral for those needing help navigating special education services, community habilitation, pre-vocational and employment programs, independent living skills and peer-to-peer support.

* Offers assistance to people with disabilities to help find and keep jobs:
Community based vocational assessment

• Work readiness and/or self-advocacy training
• Work Incentives Support/Benefits Advisement
• Career exploration
• Job search assistance
• Job development
• Job coaching

Provides employment opportunities for individuals with an intellectualk and developmental disabilities, mental illness, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, visual impairments, and traumatic brain injury. Services include screening and assessment, job development, intensive training, and extensive services once established at a job.

*Connection Connections assists individuals in obtaining meaningful employment.

• Resume preparation
• Job application assistance
• Interview practice
• Job coaching once employment has been obtained
• Prevocational services
• Work Readiness classes
• Self Advocacy services
• Paid Work Experience
• Job Assessments

Provides supported employment services for people with disabilities (not just intellectual or developmental) including job placement, coaching, application assistance, resumes, follow-ups, and school transitions.

This is an exciting and challenging program designed to build community and strengthen peer leadership skills in teens. Activities are crafted for success and achievement, require full participation and promote improved decision making, problem solving, and communication skills. The program's goal is to work with young people who are struggling to overcome difficult situations, and guide them toward higher education and purposeful employment. Participants attend one of the three, 3-week summer sessions and then attend weekend activities at camp during the school year. Teen's families also participate in the program, during weekends in the spring and fall. Activities include camping, canoeing, high ropes, peer group counseling, learning basic work skills, and local community service projects.

Assists men and women with intellectual and developmental disabilities to learn and develop work and social skills through participation in day habilitation without walls. Supported employment services provided through OPWDD, ETP and ACCES-VR. Referral required, Call to schedule an appointment.

Employment Support Services include person-centered vocational supports in a variety of settings, developing skills and good work habits as a way of increasing independence and assisting individuals to become productive and contributing members of the community. Personal growth and a sense of self-worth are achieved and enhanced. Adults with developmental disabilities may be able to earn income while working to achieve their maximum potential. A wide range of services and supports are offered including exploration of career interests, job readiness programs, and in some cases, a more directly supported work environment.

Employment Support Services include person-centered vocational supports in a variety of settings, developing skills and good work habits as a way of increasing independence and assisting individuals to become productive and contributing members of the community. Personal growth and a sense of self-worth are achieved and enhanced. Adults with developmental disabilities may be able to earn income while working to achieve their maximum potential. A wide range of services and supports are offered including exploration of career interests, job readiness programs, and in some cases, a more directly supported work environment.

Site-based Prevocational TrainingWe encourage individuals to focus on the things that they can do rather than skills that limit their vocational performance. Onsite in JM Murray's manufacturing warehouse, we assist with developing long-term vocational goals that align with an individual's unique skills, strengths and interests.Community-based Prevocational TrainingOur community-based program matches individuals with local businesses to explore the world of work. Participants are assessed, trained and accompanied by JM staff.Employment ConnectionOur full-service agency provides employment opportunities to individuals with disabilities. We assist with job exploration, readiness training and ongoing employment support for individuals with developmental and physical disabilities.ACE (Assisted Competitive Employment)Program participants 18 years or older with a mental health diagnosis, receive vocational rehabilitation and mental health supports to obtain and sustain integrated competitive employment. Through group and individual activities including: goal setting, career exploration and volunteer experiences, we help participants improve their self-confidence, stamina, skills and dependability in a supportive environment.Transitional Employment Placement (TEP)Program participants 18 years or older with a mental health diagnosis explore a variety of employment opportunities through short-term placements and volunteering to strengthen skills with the goal of achieving assisted or unassisted competitive employment in the field of their choice.

* Administrates supportive services programs for developmentally disabled individuals and their families. Transportation services coordinated with area providers. * Provides a wide range of employment opportunities for people with disabilities through Hilltop Industries. * Offers social/recreational programs for senior citizens.* Provides group oriented activities for life skills development through the day habilitation program.* Offers supervised group homes, supportive apartments, home care residential living options.* Provides individual and family support services.* Provides health related services.* Provides assistance to individuals and families with obtaining and maintaining Medicaid, applying for and maintaining benefits such as SSI through the service coordination program.* Provides the KidStart program that offers: Early Intervention. Evaluation Services. Head Start.

Ticket-To-Work; Employment Network - can assist individuals with disabilities to find job and training opportunities, access community resources and understand the impact of work earnings on their benefits.

This service is for adults with disabilities including: standardized assessment, specialized assessment, work site evaluation, community based assessments, work readiness. Prevocational services are offered through community pre-vocational services for the IDD, the Jawonio Thrift Shop at our Yonkers location and Connections/Pre-Employment Program for the behavioral health challenged in our Yonkers locations. In addition, Jawonio has offered grant funded green cleaning training programs in Rockland and Westchester.

Provides assessment, job development and job coaching services to adults with developmental disabilities including autism. Assists in obtaining and maintaining employment for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Offers a variety of opportunities for employment. Career Options provides job readiness, skill assessment, diagnostic vocational evaluation, résumé development, career counseling, job development, on the job training, and follow up services. The Vocational Centers offer job opportunities for individuals to develop and improve the skills necessary to meet their goals for employment. The Center focuses on soft skills development such as acceptance of supervision, following directions, attention to task, co-worker relationships, job completion and time management.

Offers a variety of opportunities for employment. Career Options provides job readiness, skill assessment, diagnostic vocational evaluation, résumé development, career counseling, job development, on the job training, and follow up services. The Vocational Centers offer job opportunities for individuals to develop and improve the skills necessary to meet their goals for employment. The Center focuses on soft skills development such as acceptance of supervision, following directions, attention to task, co-worker relationships, job completion and time management.

Employment support service. Includes on and off site job coaching. The Employment Connection, a division of UCP of Long Island , assists individuals with developmental disabilities and those with acquired physical disabilities to meet their career goals. Assists job seekers with employment assessment, training, job placement and job support.