* Offers day habilitation services and Community Habilitation. * Offers a full-range of residential services.* Provides vocational assessment and transition planning, employment services, job search and placement.* Provides Fiscal Intermediary and Broker Services.* Provides intensive support and training to parents with developmental disabilities and their children. Training includes parenting education, social activities, recreation and other life enriching experiences.

Offers a blended prevocational and day program that provides employment opportunities through training and specializes in hand assembly projects for businesses and organizations. Individuals enrolled may also learn daily living, social and recreational skills that increase their self-esteem and work ethic. Opportunities program encompasses day prevocational training, job coaching for community employment and volunteer positions.

* Provides comprehensive, long term case management and counseling services to young parents and their children. Services include: Home visiting Parenting education Employment services Education support Peer support groups

Offers programming that assists in developing young people's capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals, and live successfully as self-sufficient adults. Provides targeted education and prevention regarding internet safety, teen pregnancy, and substance use.

* Provides adults with mental illness opportunities to learn and develop independent living skills and job readiness skills.

Bridging the gap between traditional day services and competitive employment by helping participants develop life, social and career skills appropriate for the workplace.

Provides an environment within which participants can be involved in meaningful activities that allow them to grow and learn, pursue personal goals and interests, gain greater independence and make a contribution to their community. Consumers participate in a variety of activities each of which meets specific goals for the individual. Volunteer opportunities across the Capital Region often leading to paid jobs.

* Provides self-directed services including fiscal intermediary and broker.* Oversees residential houses providing support to persons for medical appointments, meal prep, socialization, budgeting and daily living skills.* Provides Individual Support Services (ISS) housing/rent subsidiaries for persons with I/DD.

Bridging the gap between traditional day services and competitive employment by helping participants develop life, social and career skills appropriate for the workplace.

New York State Commission for the Blind's (NYSCB) Business Enterprise Program (BEP) offers opportunities for individuals who are blind to gain the training and skills necessary to manage one of several vending facilities located in Federal and state office buildings throughout the state. After completing an intensive training program, BEP managers become proficient in all aspects of retail management including purchasing products, controlling inventory, marketing products, maintaining good customer relations, and keeping accurate records.

Provides an after-school program that assists students 14-19 years of age with job training, social skills, life skills, computer literacy, vocational classroom training in food service, and case management.

Provides life-skills and assists individuals with obtaining important documents such as driver's license, social security card, and birth certificate.

Offers an innovative day services program that coordinates a comprehensive set of services to assist individuals with developmental disabilities to live and work as independently as possible in their communities based upon their needs and interests. Participants may receive training in daily living skills such as, but not limited to, healthy living, cooking, physical fitness, arts and crafts, socialization, music and self-advocacy. There also may be opportunities to participate in a volunteer community experiences to explore career options. Other supports include learning how to access safe and effective transportation within the communty and support to individuals attending community college.

* Provides alcohol and drug education. Substance abuse prevention. Training on alcoholism and chemical dependency. Referrals for treatment.

Offers programming that assists in developing young people's capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals, and live successfully as self-sufficient adults. Provides targeted education and prevention regarding internet safety, teen pregnancy, and substance use.

New York State Commission for the Blind's (NYSCB) Business Enterprise Program (BEP) offers opportunities for individuals who are blind to gain the training and skills necessary to manage one of several vending facilities located in Federal and state office buildings throughout the state. After completing an intensive training program, BEP managers become proficient in all aspects of retail management including purchasing products, controlling inventory, marketing products, maintaining good customer relations, and keeping accurate records.

Provides an environment within which participants can be involved in meaningful activities that allow them to grow and learn, pursue personal goals and interests, gain greater independence and make a contribution to their community. Consumers participate in a variety of activities each of which meets specific goals for the individual. Volunteer opportunities across the Capital Region often leading to paid jobs.

Assists homeless adults and families who reside in a shelter and have some income from employment or who have a work history or work skills. Provides independent living skills training, housing location assistance, linkage to mainstream resources, and financial assistance for housing for up to 24 months to help participants transition from homelessness to independent living.

* Provides adults who have mental illness with opportunities to learn and develop independent living skills and job readiness skills.

Provides services for youth residing in foster care who have a discharge goal of independent living because reunification and adoption are no longer viable alternatives, or in instances where youth have a different discharge goal but are otherwise appropriate for Independent Living Services.

Assists women to achieve a level of independence, higher competencies in personal initiative, health and wellness, furthering education assistance, parenting skill, life skill and employment skills.

Provides an environment within which participants can be involved in meaningful activities that allow them to grow and learn, pursue personal goals and interests, gain greater independence and make a contribution to their community. Consumers participate in a variety of activities each of which meets specific goals for the individual. Volunteer opportunities across the Capital Region often leading to paid jobs.

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.

Offers comprehensive sexuality education and life skills education to middle and high school students.