Center for Disability Services

The Center for Disability services, known as the place where people get better at life, has been one of upstate new york's largest providers of programs and services for individuals who have disabilities. Many of the innovative programs and vital services the Center offers are not available elsewhere. We offer an integrated health care practice. We are known for our quality of care for individuals with disabilities, which is at the heart of our mission. Center health care provides exceptional outpatient medical, dental and therapy services, primarily for persons with developmental disabilities and other chronic, disabling conditions (such as cerebral palsy, tbi, and a variety of other chronic neurological and rheumatological or other chronic musculoskeletal disorders). Services are available for children, adolescents and adults. Medical services include primary care and women's health services, neurology services, psychiatry services, and several other medical specialty services. Therapy services include ot, pt, slp and psychological assessment and psychotherapy (counseling) services. Our clinic is located in albany, ny, serving patients from over 28 counties seeking outpatient healthcare services.

The Center's residential services offers a wide array of services designed exclusively to meet the needs and goals of individuals with developmental disabilities. These services include 24/7 settings in both supervised and supportive living environments, free standing respite facilities designed to provide relief to families who take care of a family member with a Disability, community (group) respite that is activity based, community habilitation where a worker brings an individual into the community to work on skill development, and our summer camp program. Our supervised services offer care 24 hours/7 days a week with an emphasis on health and well-being of each individual while maintaining a commitment to an independent lifestyle. Our supportive apartment services is a program that offers a supportive living environment to individuals that are living in their own apartments to gain further independence. Our respite service is a program that is designed to provide short-term relief to families who care for their disabled family member at home. Our community skills respite also offers short-term relief for families while providing individuals the opportunity to build peer relationships in community/activity settings. Our in-home services offer living skills instruction to individuals who live at home with their families. Our camp services provide a seven week overnight summer camp for individuals with special needs and a 2 week day camp for young adults on the autism spectrum.

The langan school is a day program that serves students ages 5-21. Cloverpatch early childhood services provide a range of services to students with special needs from age 3 to age five. Both programs serve students with severe multiple challenges including physical, medical, cognitive and behavioral. Our curriculum is aligned with nys curriculum major content. Our primary purpose is to maintain a student-centered environment focused on facilitating student achievement of their goals through the efforts of highly qualified inter-disciplinary teams who combine their knowledge,skills and expertise to support learning in a safe environment.

Vocational: the purpose of the adult day services program is to provide needed services to individuals with disabilities. There are specific areas in which services are provided, as described below: supported employment: provides assistance to individuals with disabilities to find community based employment and provide periodic support with job training and barriers to success such as transportation arrangements, personal care, interpersonal communications, proper workplace behavior, understanding and following workplace rules, etc. Day habilitation: provide direct support services to individuals for skill acquisition and maintenance services to increase their independence in their home and community and allow them to live fuller and enriched lives. Transportation: the department operates out of two sites which are located in albany,ny and niskayuna,ny. Transportation maintains and repairs paratransit vehicles and transports consumers on a daily basis monday through friday. Services are provided throughout the capital district with bus runs, supported by a staff of drivers and mechanics. The operation follows nys dot inspection criteria and nys dmv 19a standards. Commercial services: Center commercial services is a document solution Center that was established to provide an avenue to generate non- traditional revenue to the Center for Disability services and to create meaningful work and salary opportunities for the Center's disabled workforce. The focus of the business is to meet the needs of its commercial customers, which in turn generates the work opportunity for the consumers.