Community Outreach to Individuals with Disabilities

Washington, DC
We are committed to designing and providing the support and services to meet each individual's needs, taking into account issues relating to aging and medical diagnoses.

Reston, VA

Reston, VA

Washington, DC
With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States. The NFB improves blind people’s lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence. It is the leading force in the blindness field today and the voice of the nation's blind. In January 2004 the NFB opened the National...

Falls Church, VA
Fairfax County has six emergency shelters for individuals and families who are homeless. These shelters are operated by community nonprofit organizations under contract with the county. The shelters have additional capacity during winter months to take in people overnight who are at risk of hypothermia.

Glen Burnie, MD
The mission of Providence Center is to provide services that allow individuals with disabilities to enjoy increased self-determination in leading a more independent, valuable and functioning role in society. The support services are individually designed and professionally managed to enable these individuals to exercise higher levels of control over their lives.

Frederick, MD
Service Coordination helps adults and children with developmental disabilities get the services that allow them to fulfill their goals in life. Service Coordination works with people with developmental disabilities who are receiving services funded by the Maryland State Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA), and people who are applying for DDA services. All of the individuals we serve are referred to us by the Developmental Disabilities...

Mechanicsville, MD
Independent living has to do with self-determination. It is having the right and the opportunity to pursue a course of action. And, it is having the freedom to fail -- and to learn from one’s failures -- as everyone does.

Mechanicsville, MD
Independent living has to do with self-determination. It is having the right and the opportunity to pursue a course of action. And, it is having the freedom to fail -- and to learn from one’s failures -- as everyone does.

Owings Mills, MD
Spectrum Support, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency, helps people with developmental disabilities such as mental retardation, autism, seizure disorders or cerebral palsy to live, learn, work and play in supportive communities. In addition to our day programs, where we offer job and life skills training, as well as job coaching in support of community employment, we also operate a residential program where people can live in a home with 2 other ...

Washington, DC
The Arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

Baltimore, MD
Our mission is to ensure that people with developmental disabilities have maximum opportunities to actively participate in all aspects of community life and to offer programs and services that support them in doing so.

Washington, DC
The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities is a coalition of approximately 100 national disability organizations working together to advocate for national public policy that ensures the self determination, independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in all aspects of society.

Ellicott City, MD
Achieving full community life for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities — one person at a time is the Mission of The Arc of Howard County.

Annapolis, MD
The Arc of Maryland works to create a world where children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities have and enjoy equal rights and opportunities. We began in 1950 as a small group of concerned parents. Today we are the largest statewide advocacy organization assisting persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Maryland. We number nearly 7,000 members throughout Maryland including people with intellectual disa...

Upper Marlboro, MD
Our mission is to assist individuals with developmental disabilities become a viable part of the community!

Fairfax, VA
The Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services was created by legislation signed this spring by Gov. McDonnell to take the programmatic units of the current Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS) and the Virginia Department for the Aging (VDA) and create a new entity with a wider menu of service options. In 2013, the adult services units from Virginia’s Department of Social Services will become part of the Department for Aging...

Fairfax, VA
The Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services was created by legislation signed this spring by Gov. McDonnell to take the programmatic units of the current Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS) and the Virginia Department for the Aging (VDA) and create a new entity with a wider menu of service options. In 2013, the adult services units from Virginia’s Department of Social Services will become part of the Department for Aging...

Fairfax, VA
In partnership with people with disabilities and their families, the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services collaborates with the public and private sectors to provide and advocate for the highest quality services that empower individuals with disabilities to maximize their employment, independence and full inclusion into society.

Fredericksburg, VA
The Department of Rehabilitative Services provides services to help Virginians with disabilities become more independent and self-sufficient.