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Provides independent living, residential living, personal care, nursing facility, skilled nursing, speech/occupational/physical/respiratory therapies, adult day services, palliative care and The Gallagher Center (39 bed Alzheimer's Center features a wander track, enclosed courtyard and private/semi-private rooms). Services include activity programming, active volunteer program, intergenerational programs, beauty and barber services, on-site chapel and pastoral services.

Offers a wide variety of services to graduating students with disabilities. Students are offered services to prepare for entry into the world after graduation.

Independent living for seniors that focuses on preventative health and maintaining independence through life and additional support through our personal care program.

Offers financial assistance via loans to purchase assistive technology equipment.

Providing services to individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities who are in need of assistance.

Provide Assistive Technology Services as an Assistive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) through Technology for Our Whole Lives (TechOWL). Services include: Public Awareness, Training and Technical Assistance, Acquisition of Assistive Technology Services, Equipment Reutilization, Device Demonstrations, Assistance with Funding Resources, lending Library, and Free Phone Program. A New Start, our in-house reuse program, provides gently used medical equipment and assistive technology devices to individuals who are unable to obtain what they need through ordinary channels. Their goal is to reutilize home medical equipment and other devices that are sitting around unused and give the equipment to someone in need.

Provides clients with the skills needed to remain independent in the community. By helping clients improve their ability in areas such as activities of daily living, interpersonal communication skills, computer use, and orientation and mobility.

Provides education and outreach presentations to businesses, provider agencies, community partners and people with disabilities. Presentations include Accessibility Surveys, Disability Sensitivity and Awareness, and guidance to assure compliance with the ADA.

The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North Central PA, offers:Resources/training related to language translation, housing, income benefits, mobility/transportation, education, communication, assistive technology, advocacy, budgeting, household management, mentoring, and socialization/recreation geared toward persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Sign Language Instruction. Assistance with obtaining an Interpreter/Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART). Instruction of the Pennsylvania Driver's Manual. Public awareness/sensitivity training regarding persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Information about Videophones/Video Relay Interpreting Services and resources on how to go about getting a videophone. Assistance with getting equipment via the TDDP such as a TTY, CapTel, amplified telephone, etc. A New Start program through Roads to Freedom, an Assistive Technology reuse/recycle program, may be able to provide donated equipment.

Providing services to individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities who are in need of assistance.

Independent living for seniors that focuses on preventative health and maintaining independence through life and additional support through our personal care program.

Provides help to young adults who are homeless and without family support. Young people live in supervised apartments in the community while they are continuing their education or finding and maintaining employment.

Provides advocacy services for persons with disabilities and their families.

Helps coordinate services including personal care assistance, home modifications, transportation, and discharge planning. Also administers the OBRA and Independence, and CommCare Waiver Programs.

Assess and help to resolve barrier issues of inaccessibility or discrimination. Conduct disability awareness training for schools, businesses, hospitals and civic organizations.

Providing services to individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities who are in need of assistance.

Provides specialized information and referral pertaining to disability issues.

Offers advocacy, independent living skills instruction, information and referral, and peer counseling.

Provides residential services and living arrangements that offer several levels of support and encourage varying levels of independence.

Offers advocacy, peer support, skills training, information and referral, and transition services. Services include, but are not limited to: assistive technology training, Waiver enrollment, HCBS advocacy, understanding and navigating services and benefits in the community, connection to appropriate services or agencies in the community, transitioning out of a nursing home to a community based living environment, and special education advocacy.

Provides services that include training designed to increase self-reliance, living skills, and enhance self-confidence such as cooking, budgeting, housing search, benefits counseling, and home maintenance skills. Offers training to empower people with disabilities to speak for themselves and others. Supplies information and resource materials related to disability issues.

Supports individuals who have completed the Gatehouse program and individuals with spina bifida or other related disabilities who are living out in the community. The program also helps adults with spina bifida to locate housing in the community of their choice.

Offers Certified Aging in Place Specialists (CAPS) that provide technical assistance, coordination, and consultation for accessible home modifications.

The only organization in the Lehigh Valley dedicated to assisting persons with all types of disabilities. Provides community outreach and education, independent living skills, information on adaptive technologies/equipment, advocacy, information and referral, peer support, sign language interpreter referral service and specialized housing search and support. Provides information on programs that will pay for home modifications (to increase accessibility). Transportation & Housing Support Connect individuals with disabilities who are homeless to shelters Assistive Technology Offers Information and Assistance for Assistive Technology and Adaptive Equipment inquiries; Supports the Assistive Technology Lending Library/loan program offered statewide; Offers Funding information for Assistive Technology; houses a Reused Equipment Exchange Program, and more.

Advocates and volunteers work on state and local disability issues.