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Advocates and volunteers work on state and local disability issues.

Provides home modifications to individuals with low-income. Offers ADA & UCC Assistance, Comprehensive, on-site assessments, technical assistance, and training on the federal and state anti-discrimination and accessibility laws. Gives training, Individualized, interactive workshops on disability awareness and disability-related issues, and monthly consumer training series.

Allows people who communicate through sign language to make and receive phone calls.

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

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.

Educates the public about communicating with people with diverse disabilities and becoming more aware of people with disabilities, accessibility, and disability issues. Provides a multimedia presentation designed to meet your business needs.

Provides advocacy services for persons with disabilities and their families.

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

Offers peer counseling.

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.

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.

Life Skills training is an individualized service designed to increase independence. The consumer (a person with a disability) sets the pace, decides the goals, and does the work. Life Skills staff serve as role models, advocates, and supporters. Training areas are housing, money management, social/recreation, self-care, mobility/transportation, education, vocation, communication, assistive technology, sexuality, service coordination, advocacy, and attendant care. RTFCIL also offers the following curriculum: Budgeting/Checkbook Balancing, Cooking/Meal Preparation, Housing Assistance, and Job Readiness.

Provides services to help people with disabilities live independently.

Roads to Freedom's Employment Service involves processes/steps that must be followed to insure the best placement possible. Processes/steps to be followed for successful employment in Customized Employment are Discovery, Vocational Profile, Planning Meeting, Job Development, and Job Coaching. Interested consumers can use CILNCP as their Employment Network, funded as a fee for service through Maximus. The Ticket to Work (TTW) incentive is designed to remove the barriers that disability beneficiaries currently face in returning to work. As an Employment Network, CILNCP will coordinate employment, vocational rehabilitation, and other support services for beneficiaries. Ticket holders are offered the following employment services: Job search assistance. Resume preparation. Interview Skills. Job placement. Job postings. Vocational counseling. Past employment support systems. Job coaching support. Social Security Work Incentives Outreach (funded through AHEDD) provides Impairment Related Work Expenses. Plan to

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.

Offers a no-cost, multi-faceted lifestyle evaluation to determine the programs, services, and support available to assist you to Live Well with a Disability. Provides programs, services, and support to Live Well with a disability.

Offers a wide spectrum of programs and services to meet the needs of the local disability community. Services include: *Disability Advocacy *Person Centered Counseling *Voter rights *Peer Support *E-sports *Technology Center

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.

Connects individuals with the independent living services needed to achieve independent living.

Provide education and consultations to individuals, businesses, and agencies to eliminate structural barriers for people with disabilities through performing Accessibility Surveys. The ADA Services allow them to keep current with regulations and participate in professional development activities.

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

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.

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