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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.

Enables persons with disabilities and their families to find, utilize, and coordinate available resources and opportunities in their communities based on their individual needs.

Offers a recreation program that allows people with disabilities to have fun and be involved in the community while improving social skills.

Provides social recreation, including group activities, for adults with intellectual disabilities.

Provides core independent living services, including information and referral, individual and systemic advocacy, peer support (in-person and virtually), and independent living skills training. Also provides transition services to support persons transitioning from school to the adult world, and from care facilities into the community.

Coordinates and administers services and resources to help older adults and individuals with disabilities to make decisions and choices about their own care and enable them to be active in their communities. Most services are delivered through the county area agencies on aging.

Delivers ready-to-heat, freshly prepared, nutritious meals to individuals at home that may not be able to access food otherwise. Meals prepared by chefs at LECOM Senior Living Center.

Provides information and referral to people of all ages with disabilities. Can assist in many areas such as abuse and neglect, access to community services, discrimination, ADA compliance issues, education, etc. The help can include information, referral to other organizations, advocacy and legal action. Provides assistance on legal issues to attorneys and others and provides education and training on a variety of issues to consumers, families, advocates, and professionals.

Provides a comprehensive array of services and supports to children and adults with intellectual disabilities, including support coordination, in-home supportive services, out of home placement assistance, groups homes, and information and referral services.

Services include: Advocacy of Individual rights Development and maintenance of an Individual Support Plan (ISP). Determining the need for services and developing "outcomes." Identifying and locating providers of services. Coordinating waiver services when funding is available. Ensuring services are received as outlined in the ISP. Ensuring health and safety.

Community Integration is a service for those individuals who will be transitioning back into their community, or to a new community from a nursing facility or similar.

Assists youth with physical and cognitive disabilities to find employment in their communities. Offers work in greenhouses and commercial kitchen on the agency's campus.

Improves access to supports and resources for long-term care through a network of local partners.

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

Provides skills training classes, peer support, advocacy, information and referral, nursing home, and youth transition services to individuals with disabilities.

Coordination of a variety of resources and support networks, professional and social, for individuals with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities and their families

Provides a variety of services to assist individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their families to live and work in their home communities. Support services offered are based in the local community and encourage active participation by the individual, their family, friends, and neighbors. Services include: residential and in-home care, vocational and employment services, family support and specialized therapies, and specialized early intervention services for children from birth to age 3 who have a developmental delay.

Advocates for individuals with disabilities to enjoy the same rights, access to opportunities (educational, employment, community living, health care, etc.), and privileges as other citizens.

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.

Offers a two-week summer arts camp that hosts both neurodiverse and neurotypical learners for a series of classes in writing, visual arts, animation, music, and more.

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.

Eat Share is a collection of volunteers throughout north central Pennsylvania who bring warm meals to neighbors when it's needed most.

Offers support and promotes independence of individuals with developmental disabilities. Provides information regarding resources and services available, assists with finding activities within the community and provides referrals to appropriate agencies within the community.

Provides information and referral to people of all ages with disabilities. Can assist in many areas such as abuse and neglect, access to community services, discrimination, ADA compliance issues, education, etc. The help can include information, referral to other organizations, advocacy and legal action. Provides assistance on legal issues to attorneys and others and provides education and training on a variety of issues to consumers, families, advocates, and professionals.