This database is of resources most commonly referred to when someone calls the LINK department. Search resources using the search box, or target resources by categories and tags listed to the right. YAI does not intimately know all the programs on this list. Availability and service changes are beyond our control. If you are trying to understand what an acronym might mean, check out our Acronym Guide. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, please feel free to call us at 212.273.6182.
CLOSECenter for Benefits and Services and The Benefits Plus Learning Center offers publications, training, and consultation services designed to educate and support the social service professional and clients through the complexities of the public benefit system. http://b.3cdn.net/nycss/b1c5e80086ef997aad_67m6iy4r2.pdf
Legal Services NYC provides free high quality legal help in civil matters to low-income people throughout New York City by:
The Association for Children with Down Syndrome's services are designed with the person in mind. All of their activities – educational, recreational, therapeutic, social – focus on the unique characteristics and abilities of the person they are serving, with one goal - to help that person develop to their full potential.
Contact 516.933.4700 or 914.810.2237.
The Resource Library offers a central hub of information and products created for the network of Parent Centers serving families of children with disabilities in English and Spanish.
What you’ll find on the Parent Center Hub:
The Disabilities Network of New York City brings people, organizations, government and industry together to find soultions to the problems faced by New Yorkers with physical, visual and hearing disabilities. They work for full inclusion of people with disabilities into the vast civic, social, and economic life of New York City.
The Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) works to ensure that New Yorkers with disabilities can lead happy, healthy and productive lives. The Office provides information on accessible programs, accessible transportation, employment, health services, activities, and other resources to the nearly one million New Yorkers with disabilities and the 6.8 million people with disabilities visiting New York City every year.
SBRN is a source of support and information, and provides opportunities for the Spina Bifida Community to connect on a personal level.
Classes on home buying and assistance with credit and loans for purchase and repairs are offered in English and Spanish. NHS of NYC revitalizes underserved neighborhoods by creating and preserving affordable housing and providing opportunities for homeownership education, financial assistance and community leadership. Working in partnership with government and business, they are led by local residents and guided by local needs.
OPWDD’s Family Care program provides community-based residential housing in certified private homes for people with developmental disabilities. By providing the support, guidance and companionship of a family, the Family Care program fosters a caring and stable home environment for children, adolescents, and adults. Family Care uses certified private homes to provide residential services to people of all ages who are developmentally disabled and unable to live independently in the community.
HPD offers a wide variety of programs that create newly constructed or renovated affordable rental housing throughout the five boroughs. HPD and its partners use city subsidies and other financing tools to make these apartments affordable to low-, moderate-, and middle-income people and families.
