Provides Day Habilitation, Pre-Vocational Training, Sheltered Workshops, and Supported Employment. Transportation is provided for all services.

The Transition Academy offers a coordinated, integrated set of transition and employment services to help young adults who have already transitioned out of high school, or are about to, create a person-centered adult life plan that includes both personal and professional development supports that meet the needs of transition-aged individuals, their families, and other professionals. Its three programs are: Project Search Autism Enhancement, Employment Connection Pilot Program and Prep4Success.

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.

Coordinates the Section 55A employment program for people with disabilities under the State Civil Services Law. Call for detailed information.

Provides an alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation program, a 28 day inpatient treatment program, job training, and clean and sober housing. There is a waiting list for this service.

*Offers a family support program including Parent's support group. Care and case management services. Individual residential alternatives through supportive apartments. Employment and vocational placement through supportive employment opportunities with the goal of competitive placements. Day habilitation program

Adult services include pre-vocational services, supported employment, ongoing supported employment, education supports, psychosocial rehabilitation, family support and training, and habilitation.

Children's services include psychosocial rehabilitation, pre-vocational services, caregiver family support, community habilitation, supported employment, and day habilitation.

Offers information on available services, activities, support, and advocacy for those who are deaf, hard of hearing and their families

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.

Offers a school which is designed for students with moderate to severe developmental disabilities. The instructional program, which is aligned to the New York State Standards for Students with Severe Disabilities and the New York State Common Core Learning Standards, builds confidence and capabilities of students and focuses on developing communication skills and personal independence. Research-based methodologies, such as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), visual strategies, the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), augmentative communications systems, functional behavioral assessment and positive behavioral supports are utilized in this program. The Rosemary Kennedy School consists of the elementary, middle and high school classes as well as district-based classes which provide mainstreaming opportunities for students. Community-based instruction is an essential part of the curriculum and compliments traditional classroom learning. Students participate in recreational activities (libraries, bowling), life skills (grocery shopping, restaurants), volunteer work sites (Mercy Hospital, Hofstra University) and vocational enclaves in the community (fast food restaurants, retail stores). Each student is educated by an interdisciplinary team comprised of the classroom teacher, teacher aides, psychologist, social worker, related service personnel, curriculum teachers and administrators. Parents are encouraged to participate in their child's education through daily communication notebooks, conferences, visits, parent training sessions and parent support groups. Transition planning for students from ages 12 to 21 is facilitated by vocational rehabilitation counselors and social workers in coordination with students and their families prior to graduation. Call for more detailed information.

Provides career guidance, evaluation, preparation and multiple employment services to people with disabilities or those that are economically disadvantaged, through supported employment, industrial work centers, school-to-work career development, and janitorial training.

Provides supported employment services to people with disabilities under contract with Adult Career and Continuing Education Services-Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR) and the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). Employment specialists help individuals with disabilities develop work skills and connect with local employers. They also provide job coaching and ongoing supports.

Essex Industries is an integrated work center where people with developmental disabilities gain skills needed to work in the community.

Finds paid, meaningful work in a variety of integrated mainstream settings for people who have disabilities and which assign a "job coach" to work side-by-side with each client to provide advocacy with the employer and other employees, training in basic job skills and work-related behaviors, assistance with specific tasks as needed and whatever other initial or ongoing support is required to ensure that the individual retains competitive employment.

Assesses individuals with disabilities and provides job placement, on-the-job training, and long-term ongoing support, needed to help sustain each job. Offers several programs to address specific client needs and age ranges.

Provides guidance and support for adults with developmental disabilities through the employment process. Focuses on life and job training skills, basic education, individualized vocational training, job coaching, job searching skills, transportation training, money management and socialization development with those in the community.

Provide a program for individuals with disabilities who desire to be competitively employed. This program consists of pre-employment and post-employment services, designed to enhance an individuals success in the workplace through include resume writing, interviewing, appropriate social behavior, and learning to live with a job. In addition, the individual is supported through the initial stages of adapting to a new worksite.

Youth transitioning out of OCFS court ordered residential placement referred to FCA by OCFS to facilitate a positive transition back to their homes and communities. FCA Workforce Development Coach will identify potential work site opportunities, help youth in the program with vocational/career realms, outreach to the DOL, Chamber of Commerce, and local businesses.

Provides work for pay opportunities within community-based and facility-based job sites throughout Lewis and Oneida counties. Training and clinical supports are provided based on individuals needs.

Provides support to individuals in order to prepare for, find and retain jobs. Specializing in working with individuals who have difficulty finding a job, individuals with disabilities and those who are receiving temporary assistance and/or food stamps. Provides support with job readiness training, placement in competitive industry, follow-up employment supports including job coaches, finding child care, transportation or assisting with appropriate clothing for work.

Provides an alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation program, a 28 day inpatient treatment program, job training, and clean and sober housing. There is a waiting list for this service.

Provides employment and job training or adults with mental illness in a peer-supported environment to re-enter the workforce.


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Provides a voluntary program for participants in public housing and HCV by offering economic growth opportunities through education and employment, financial planning assistance and home ownership.