PTLive - Protected Tomorrows Special Needs Directory

What do we do? United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) is one of the nation’s leading organizations serving and advocating for more than 54 million Americans with disabilities. Many UCP consumers are people with disabilities other than cerebral palsy. Here in north Texas UCP offers services to individuals, families and communities, such as early childhood development and education, community living assistance and support services (CLASS), home and community support (HCS), consumer direct services (CDS), group homes, adult Impact program, and removing limits through technology with our assistive technology programs. Additionally, UCP of North Texas provides OT, PT, and speech therapy along with a vast array of adaptive equipment available through our equipment loan program.

Carey Services is a community-based organization which receives strong support from a broad cross-section of consumers, families, businesses and charitable interests. Supports and services are determined through person-centered planning, whereby consumers and their families direct the planning and allocation of resources to meet their own individual life goals.

The Center for Independent Futures is a not-for-profit organization that forms innovative partnerships to create product and service models that give adults with disabilities and their families the skills and opportunities to realize full lives. We use our proprietary processes to establish sustainable solutions through community living options, personal networks, lifelong planning and education.

A person with brain injury may have just a single opportunity for rehabilitation. The quality of life that follows treatment often depends on making the right placement decision. Centre for Neuro Skills (CNS) offers each client the highest quality rehabilitation possible.

The Center On Deafness is dedicated to providing quality services for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families, through educational, vocational, and residential services in a therapeutic, community- based environment

Provides services to adults with developmental disabilities, traumatic head injuries, or other neurological impairments.

CCARC, Inc. offers services for individuals with mental retardation and a spectrum of other disabilities, including blindness, hearing impairment, aphasia and autism.As a private, not-for-profit agency, CCARC, Inc. has a unique mission - to make dreams happen for persons with developmental disabilities. Through residential and supported living arrangements, employment, vocational training, recreation, clinical servies, advocacy and intervention CCARC, Inc. (Central Connecticut Association for Retarded Citizens) has improved the lives of countless indiviuals and their families, and enhanced the community's understanding about individuals with mental retardation.

Our nursing center provides a full range of medical services to treat the residents who live with us and the patients who come to us for short-term, episodic medical or rehabilitative care. The care we deliver includes daily nursing, pharmacy, dietary and social services for all residents and patients, as well as a range of specific services. We invite you to visit and see for yourself the face of quality care.

As one of the first community programs in the nation serving adults with developmental disabilities, the goal was to help individuals with developmental disabilities live as independently as possible through individualized support to meet each individual’s needs. Cheyenne Village is a place where people with developmental disabilities live and work as the rest of us do; contributing to society, making independent choices, and pursuing their own vision of happiness.

We create opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to gain competency, develop relationships and join the community with increasing command over their own lives. We are a non-profit corporation serving more than 180 adults from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Provides supported education services in a community college setting, supported employment including job training, placement and folow up, transitional services from group homes and other settings to supported living within the community.

Community Gatepath fosters hope, dignity and independence among children and adults with disabilities. We dedicate ourselves to building inclusive environments where individuals of all abilities can thrive.

DD Homes is a quality-focused network dedicated to providing exceptional residential services to adults with developmental disabilities and other cognitive impairments, within a highly respectful, activity-rich, well managed and caring environment

The mission of the Florida Lions Conklin Center is to train, assist, and support individuals that are blind and have one or more other disabilities to obtain gainful employment, live independently, participate in community life and have the freedom to make their own choices with dignity. Our students may have been born blind or suffered an injury or illness that caused the loss of sight. they are also challenged by another physical or cognitive or developmental disability such as deafness, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities or borderline mental retardation, to name a few.

Assisted living options are often part of a larger senior community, delivering progressive options for supportive care and health-related services to residents who are no longer able to live independently

From 24-hour supervision to Intermittent Community Integrated Living Arrangements, Cornerstone encourages choice and independence in its residential alternative services.Cornerstone's employment services program works with individuals to find and retain jobs in their own communities. Field trips combined with classroom training help individuals develop the skills necessary to lead an active life in the community. Cornerstone's nationally-recognized behavioral health services provide many options for individuals with mental health issues, including outpatient counseling, psychosocial rehabilitation, and community housing.

Creative Work Systems seeks to enable persons with cognitive, physical and psychiatric handicaps to increase or regain self-sufficiency through employment, independent living support, and personal skills development and social/interpersonal opportunities.

DD Homes is a quality-focused network dedicated to providing exceptional residential services to adults with developmental disabilities and other cognitive impairments, within a highly respectful, activity-rich, well managed and caring environment.

Our mission is to provide services and opportunities to people who have developmental disabilities or other special needs, so they and their families can pursue the dreams and lifestyles they choose.

The Devereux mission is to change lives and nurture human potential. We inspire hope, ensure well-being, and promote meaningful life choices. Our mission is achieved through a wide range of services and supports for individuals and their families.

Devereux is a non-profit organization providing services around the nation for persons with emotional, developmental & educational disabilities.

Located in Glenwood, Florida, the Duvall Presbyterian Home (or, as we love to say,"Our Home") is a place where more than 140 individuals with developmental disabilities live in a private, countryside setting allowing each and every resident to lead an independent and fulfilling life.

The mission of Easter Seals Tennessee is to provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their community.

Eden Supportive Living offers an innovative approach to assisted living housing for physically disabled individuals ages 22-64. By combining apartment-style housing with personal care and services, residents can live independently with dignity and privacy while avoiding the burden of maintaining a home. And, enjoy the freedom of a 24-hour support staff available for scheduled and unscheduled needs.

El Valor is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 1973. El Valor is the first bilingual, bicultural rehabilitation center in Illinois. Their strategic goals are: to be the best in the nation in early childhood care in the Hispanic community; to become the premier organization developing leadership for the Hispanic community; and to be an international model for inclusion of people with disabilities in the Hispanic community.