The Peer Mentoring Program helps persons with disabilities improve their independent living skills, such as problem solving techniques, self-determination and self-advocacy through workshops, peer support, interactive assessments, guest speakers, co-sponsored community events and presentations by local agencies.Participants are each matched with mentors, who provide one-on-one feedback during monthly discussions each person's life experiences or personal goals.Job Shadowing & Career Exploration -Communication & Writing Skill DevelopmentJob Search SupportJob Application & Resume SupportGroup & Individual Peer MentoringWorkshops & Training OpportunitiesEmployment Services: ATI offers a wide variety of core rehabilitation employment services beyond work readiness to help PWD secure and maintain community-based competitive employment. Vocational Rehabilitation OrientationEmployment AssessmentsJob PlacementYouth Employment ServicesSupported Employment Assistive Technology / Rehabilitation TechnologyWork Tryouts & On-The-Job Training

Offers trainings and education to families, parent-to-parent support, and advocacy assistance. Provides funding to families for respite, therapeutic recreational activities, summer camps, specialized adaptive equipment, home modifications, and emergency services.

Offers trained community volunteers an opportunity to provide friendship, support and guidance to an adult or child within the community that has been diagnosed with a mental illness for a few hours every month by participating in activities that both parties enjoy.

mentoring for women experiencing difficult life situations free women's, baby and children's clothing closet during business hours and by appointment

Provides individuals and their families support through recovery with peer-to-peer services, recovery coaching, advocacy, wellness activities, sober events, education, and training opportunities.

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 trainings and education to families, parent-to-parent support, and advocacy assistance. Provides funding to families for respite, therapeutic recreational activities, summer camps, specialized adaptive equipment, home modifications, and emergency services.

Provides a community-based system of care for families of children with disabilities. Offers both formal and informal services, with an emphasis on self-determination and family control, to help support families with children who have a disability. Offers family engagement activities, peer support, advocacy training, and parenting groups and classes.

Provides free, family-centered, community-based recreational activities, such as holiday celebrations, family picnics, talent shows, bowling days, and fishing outings. Offers individuals and their parents and siblings a chance to enjoy time together in a relaxed setting.

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 a community-based system of care for families of children with disabilities. Offers both formal and informal services, with an emphasis on self-determination and family control, to help support families with children who have a disability. Offers family engagement activities, peer support, advocacy training, and parenting groups and classes.

* Provides general pre- and post-treatment, peer-led/peer driven services for individuals in recovery from substance use and who have been formerly incarcerated: Drop-in Center as a "safe haven" for members seeking support, free chemical dependency assessment/evaluation and referral to a local treatment facility. Also includes computer area. Reintegration support. Case management. Employment-related programming through various CCA reentry programs. Peer-coaching and mentoring to clients in the general recovering community.* Provides Citizenship assistance, such as restoration through voter registration drives, Certificates of Relief from Civil Disabilities and Certificates of Good Conduct, training and education on process and documents, and counseling individuals on how to discuss his/her criminal history with a prospective employer.* Provides Employment Services, including employment, education, and vocational readiness training and placement.* Provides peer trainings, e.g., Orientation, Group Facilitation, Ethics Confidentiality and Boundaries, Office Etiquette, Conflict Resolution, Peer Pressure, and Career Planning.

Links person with breast cancer with breast cancer survivor for information, support, encouragement. Link may be made at time of diagnosis or at any time during person's experience with breast cancer.

Putnam NY Connects promotes personal responsibilities to empower and create opportunities for consumers and their caregivers of all ages, allowing them to make informed choices about their Long Term Care needs that balance cost, access, and quality. Our aim is to help alleviate the frustrations of trying to navigate through a complex and fragmented long term care system.

Provide a single point of entry into the long term care system, giving unbiased, comprehensive information to individuals inquiring about publicly and privately funded long term care options in their communities. Information on a full range of services will be provided to adults and children with disabilities requiring long term care, regardless of their payment source. Services also offers companionship.

Putnam NY Connects promotes personal responsibilities to empower and create opportunities for consumers and their caregivers of all ages, allowing them to make informed choices about their Long Term Care needs that balance cost, access, and quality. Our aim is to help alleviate the frustrations of trying to navigate through a complex and fragmented long term care system.

Provides a support group for persons with eating disorders. A 12-Step program is available for recovery and is discussed at regular meetings. Check website for meeting dates, times and locations.

Offers a program to support, guide and comfort parents of newly diagnosed children with arthritis and those facing difficulties, and links them with other parents who have been through similar situations.

Serves the needs of individuals with autism and their families through advocacy, public awareness, education, and research. Offers sibling and patient support groups. Affiliated with the Autism Society of America.

A national support and self help group for adults and children who stutter. Provide parent/child support groups, referral services, workshops and conventions, and also publishes a bimonthly newsletter, Reaching Out.

Assists in the transition of deaf-blind young people as they move from education to adult services. Provides technical assistance to public and private agencies and to parent groups who are working towards community integration and the enhancement of quality of life. This includes training and technical assistance in community-based living arrangements, employment, recreation and leisure, health and other individual and family support services. Offers small conferences, structured workshops, on-site and/or off-site program consultation and information and referral services.