Special Education Parent Centers
There are 13 Special Education Parent Centers across New York State. These centers will provide parents of children with disabilities with information, resources, and strategies to:
The I/DD resource library
More information about applying for a service and availability
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.
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NY State of Health
NY State of Health: The Official Health Plan Marketplace, is your place to shop, compare, and enroll in a low-cost quality plan that’s right for you. And it’s the only place you can receive financial assistance based on your income, to lower your costs even more.
The Family Center
The Family Center offers a unique program of social and legal services, including health care and wellness programs, to New Yorkers struggling with a family crisis or loss. The team combines a keen business sense with a personalized approach, partnering with families to plan their next steps and long-term solutions with services.
Special Olympics
Through the power of sports, people with intellectual disabilities discover new strengths and abilities, skills and success. Our athletes find joy, confidence and fulfillment -- on the playing field and in life. They also inspire people in their communities and elsewhere to open their hearts to a wider world of human talents and potential.
GRASP (The Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership)
GRASP's mission is to improve and enrich the lives of adolescents and adults on the autism spectrum and their families through community advocacy & outreach, education, peer supports, programming, and services, at no cost to their members.
Greyhound Services for Passengers with Disabilities
Greyhounds's goal is to make your travel a safe, pleasant and convenient experience. Their drivers, customer service personnel and contractors are available to meet the needs of customers with disabilities. They are available to provide any requested assistance which is reasonable. The types of assistance that they are more frequently asked to provide involve boarding and de-boarding, luggage, transfers, and stowage and retrieval of wheeled mobility devices. This service is provided during transfers, meal and rest stops and other times as reasonably requested.
The Housing Assistance Program at UCP of NYC
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Provides a variety of services to eligible individuals and their families throughout New York City. Services include housing and accessibility rights education, landlord/tenant negotiations, code enforcement advocacy, help in expediting public housing applications, transfers, referral to legal services, evaluations for adaptive equipment and home modifications.
ACA - Urgent care program
Advance Healthcare Alliance is operating an Urgent Care Program in order to provide accessible, after-hours urgent care to people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD). When an urgent health care situation comes up, people with I/DD living in Brooklyn or Suffolk County who enroll in the program will be able to call a number at any time, 24/7, and get assistance from a trained nurse who specializes in treating patients with I/DD.
NYLAG Disability Advocacy Project
NYLAG’s Disability Advocacy Project (DAP) works to ensure that eligible people with disabilities receive benefits under the Social Security Disability Program (SSD) and the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI). DAP provides free legal advice and representation when SSDI or SSI disability benefits are wrongfully denied or terminated.
NYC Parks and Recreation
Information on Paralympics, accessible parks, events, and more.