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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation The Division is comprised of: vocational rehabilitation, which includes guidance and counseling, job-seeking skills and job placement, and vocational training, and provides assistance with transition services, supported employment services, assistive technology services, and the Ticket to Work Program; disability determination services, which determines medical […]
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Services for the Blind (SSB) SSB helps people who are blind, visually impaired, or Deafblind to live and work as independently as possible by providing training to adjust to blindness and vision loss, exploring assistive technology, and teaching adults how to prepare for, attain, and keep jobs. 2200 […]
Maryland Department of Aging The Maryland Department of Aging consists of Nutrition and Meal Services, which provides hot nutritious meals to Maryland residents (age 60 and older) and their spouses of any age, as well as younger eligible people with disabilities; short term or long term assistance, which is also provided with meals at home; […]
Maine Bureau of Rehabilitation Services’ Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired The goal of vocational rehabilitation services is to help people retain or return to employment. Services include: individual counseling and guidance; vocational assessment; orientation and mobility instruction to develop independent travel skills; other training, devices, treatment, job placement and follow-up services to enable […]