Pennsylvania Department of Aging This department provides various home and community based services, including home health care; personal care; health support services such as housekeeping, shopping assistance, laundry and mending and other routine household chores; respite care (caregiver relief); transportation; home-delivered meals; Family Caregiver Support Program; Older Adult Day Services Center; the Options Program, which […]
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Oklahoma: Health & Disability Programs
Oklahoma Department of Health’s Children with Special Health Care Needs This program provides specialty services to children with special needs and their families, including neonatal services, specialty services for children diagnosed with sickle cell anemia, formula for children with PKU, outreach clinics in rural areas, and respite care services. 2400 Lincoln Boulevard Oklahoma City, OK 73105 (405) 521-3679 […]
Ohio: Health & Disability Programs
Ohio Department of Aging Featured services include the Golden Buckeye Card Program, which extends savings to eligible Ohioans (age 60 or older, as well as adults age 18-59 who have disabilities as defined by Social Security) and includes the Ohio’s Best Rx prescription drug discount program; the Assisted Living Waiver Program, which provides another option […]
New Mexico: Health & Disability Programs
New Mexico Governor’s Commission on Disability-NM Technology Assistance Program The New Mexico Technology Assistance Program (NMTAP) is a program under The New Mexico Governor’s Commission on Disability (GCD). NMTAP offers free services to New Mexicans with disabilities to help them get the assistive technology (AT) services they need. NMTAP is a statewide program designed to […]
New Jersey: Health & Disability Programs
New Jersey Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) Division of Child Behavioral Health Services DCF provides families with one point of contact that registers, tracks and coordinates care for children who are screened into its Children’s Behavioral Health Service System of Care; DCF contracts with PerformCare, a private entity that administers this service system that includes […]
Virgin Islands: Emergency Preparedness Resources
Agency The Virgin Islands Department of Education Street Address Commissioner of Education None available Phone (340) 774-0100 URL http://www.doe.vi/ Agency The Virgin Islands Department of Health Street Address St. Croix Office Charles Harwood Complex 3500 Est. Richmond Christiansted, VI 00820 Phone (340) 773-1311 URL http://www.healthvi.org/ Agency The Virgin […]
New Hampshire: Health & Disability Programs
New Hampshire Department of Education’s Vocational Rehabilitation, Services for Blind and Visually Impaired Services for Blind and Visually Impaired provides needed services (mostly free) to help people with visual loss to enter, re-enter, or maintain employment. Rehabilitation services can include: consultation on the Americans with Disabilities Act, job and task analysis; reasonable job accommodation; counseling […]
Nevada: Health & Disability Programs
Nevada Department of Employment’s Training and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division, Bureau of Services to the Blind and Visually Impaired (BSBVI) BSBVI provides services to eligible individuals, including adaptive training, which provides individualized training in home management, Braille, low vision aids, communication, and vocational skills; the Business Enterprise Program, which prepares legally blind people to operate food […]
Puerto Rico: Emergency Preparedness Resources
Agency Puerto Rico Agency for Emergency Management and Disaster Management (AEMEAD) Street Address Calle Eleanor Roosevelt # 115 Hato Rey, Puerto Rico Hato Rey, PR00918 00918 San Juan San Juan, PR00906-6597 00906 Phone (787) 724-0124 URL http://translate.google.com/translate?tl=en&sourceid=ie8-activity&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gobierno.pr%2FAEMEAD%2FInicio Agency Puerto Rico Attorney’s Office for People with Disabilities Street Address Avenida Ponce de Leon No. 670 […]
Nebraska: Health & Disability Programs
Nebraska Department of Education’s Vocational Rehabilitation (Voc Rehab) Voc Rehab serves people with disabilities except consumers who are blind or visually impaired; these individuals are served by the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Voc Rehab staff provides services locally in multiple offices throughout the state, as well as in schools, one-stop centers, mental […]