ACDHH was established in 1977 to improve the quality of life for Deaf and Hard of Hearing residents. ACDHH serves as a statewide information referral center for issues related to people with hearing loss. ACDHH aspires to be a national leader in communication access, support services and community empowerment throughout the state. Our mission is to ensure, in partnership with the public and private sectors, accessibility for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deaf-Blind and persons with speech difficulties to improve their quality of life.
ABIL is the program contractor for the AZ Freedom to Work Statewide Work Incentives Planning and Assistance program funded (50%) through a $300,000 annual grant from the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Education/Rehabilitation Services Administration and other contracts and grants. Our Community Work Incentive Coordinators are trained and certified to understand Social Security rules related to employment and how employment earnings affect cash, medical and other benefits.
Offices.net offers fully furnished executive suites, professionally equipped offices and cost effective temporary office space in Arizona. These serviced offices and executive suites include a wide range of essential services in a single flexible rental price, make setting up a business in Arizona faster and easier than ever.
Arizona Technology Access
Program (AzTAP)
Is Dedicated
to increasing the availability and use of assistive technology devices for all
individuals with disabilities in Arizona.
AZ Links is Arizona’s Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC), created to help Arizona Seniors, People with Disabilities, Caregivers and their Family Members locate resources and services that meet their needs.
AZ 2-1-1: Human & Emergency Services
Welcome to
Arizona 2-1-1 Online, the State of Arizona doorway to thousands of health, human
service and emergency response resources. Developed in partnership with
government, tribal, non-profit and community groups, Arizona 2-1-1 Online is
committed to providing all Arizonans access to information and resource to
improve the quality of their lives.
The BDI, a non-profit corporation, is committed to:
Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona strengthens families, supports communities, provides compassionate services, and strives for excellence
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Collaborating to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.
The Arizona Department of Economic Security promotes the safety, well-being, and self sufficiency of children, adults, and families.
Choice Magazine Listening is a free audio anthology for a special audience of blind, visually impaired, physically disabled, or dyslexic subscribers. CML was created in 1962 by the non-profit Lucerna Fund to offer the best of contemporary magazine writing, completely without charge, to adults unable to read standard print.
Crossroads Mission is a faith-based organization dedicated to helping individuals who find themselves at a "crossroads" in their lives. Our goal is to help them take that direction that will bring them to a personal encounter with God, and to help them make changes that will result in a better quality of life.
Community Legal Services, Inc.
CLS is a not-for-profit Arizona law firm incorporated in 1952.
Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities
LD Online seeks to help children and adults reach their full potential by providing accurate and up-to-date information and advice about learning disabilities and ADHD. The site features hundreds of helpful articles, multimedia, monthly columns by noted experts, first person essays, children’s writing and artwork, a comprehensive resource guide, very active forums, and a Yellow Pages referral directory of professionals, schools, and products.
DIRECT Independent Living Center
DIRECT Center for Independence, Inc., is a consumer-directed, community-based advocacy organization that promotes independent living and offers a variety of programs for all people with disabilities. Through DIRECT's programs, people are encouraged to achieve their full potential and to participate in the community.
Easter Seals (s.a.f.t.y. first program)
Easter Seals has been helping individuals with disabilities and special needs, and their families, live better lives for nearly 90 years. From child development centers to physical rehabilitation and job training for people with disabilities, Easter Seals offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
The NICHD was initially established to investigate the broad aspects of human development as a means of understanding developmental disabilities, including intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the events that occur during pregnancy. Today, the Institute conducts and supports research on all stages of human development, from preconception to adulthood, to better understand the health of children, adults, families, and communities.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
Goodwill of Central Arizona always wants to bring the best value and greatest treasures to our loyal customers.
Guide Dogs for the Blind provides enhanced mobility to qualified individuals through partnership with dogs whose unique skills are developed and nurtured by dedicated volunteers and a professional staff.
At Health Choice Arizona, we know good health is important to everyone. Our employees are committed to helping members get and stay healthy. Our mission is to treat you with the utmost respect and dignity while providing you safe, effective, quality healthcare. Your health and well-being is our number one priority.
Hearing Loss Association of America
The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is the nation’s leading organization representing people with hearing loss. According to the National Center for Health Statistics 36 million (17 percent) Americans have some degree of hearing loss making it a public health issue third in line after heart disease and arthritis.
Home Instead Senior Care is pleased to provide seniors with America's #1 medical alert service. For more than 30 years, Lifeline has enabled millions of people to live with greater independence, peace of mind and dignity in the place they feel most comfortable-their own homes. Because the Lifeline service also helps family caregivers to balance the needs of their loved ones with the demands of their own busy lives, Lifeline is of immense benefit to them as well. If you have any questions, would like to talk about your particular needs, or are ready to begin service, we welcome your call at 1-800-372-4103. Please Mention Program Code NE702. Thank you
Opening its first hospice in 1979, Hospice Compassus is a family of community-based hospices. Our nationwide network is a vast resource benefiting both patients and families. Hospice Compassus has a common culture around three core values: compassion, integrity, and excellence. Our primary goals are to provide the highest quality hospice care and service in every community in which we operate, and to be both the hospice provider of choice and hospice employer of choice.
As the area's only non-profit hospice, Hospice of Yuma has served the community since 1981, providing compassionate care for many terminally ill patients and their families. We focus on helping patients and families cope with what they fear most about dying - being in pain, being alone, losing control, and being a burden to others. For patients, hospice care offers emotional and spiritual support and state-of-the-art medical care, tailored to the patient's wishes to remain at home, as pain free and comfortable as possible.
IRS Alternative Media Center (AMC)
all IRS documents are accessible to persons using assistive technology, including screen reading software, refreshable Braille displays, and voice recognition software. for more information about AMC email
altmc@irs.gov or call 1-800-829-3676
We are a 143-bed facility offering rehabilitative services and long term care for residents with moderate to complex medical conditions, and a secured unit for Alzheimer’s care for residents with dementia.
Falls and medication errors are the two biggest threats to independent living. That's why Philips Lifeline provides the #1 Medical Alert Service and Medication Dispensing Service to offer you something else: peace of mind.
National Emergency Management Resource Center
We provide:
National Federation of the Blind
The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of information that exist. If a blind person has proper training and opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a physical nuisance.
National Institute of Mental Health
The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure. For the Institute to continue fulfilling this vital public health mission, it must foster innovative thinking and ensure that a full array of novel scientific perspectives are used to further discovery in the evolving science of brain, behavior, and experience. In this way, breakthroughs in science can become breakthroughs for all people with mental illnesses.
National Organization on Disability/ Emergency Preparedness Initiative
The National Organization on Disability (NOD) is a private, non-profit organization that promotes the full participation of America’s 54 million people with disabilities in all aspects of life. In 2006 we narrowed our focus to increasing employment opportunities for the 79 percent of working-age Americans with disabilities who are not employed.
New Horizons Independent Living Center
Independent Living began first with a center at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972. The unstoppable Independent Living movement has since grown rapidly as demonstrated by the nearly 500 centers now operating nationwide. This Independent Living success story is mainly attributable to the unique and practical philosophy which sets Independent Living Centers apart from other approaches to helping people with disabilities: Independent Living Centers are run by and for people with disabilities.
Pilot Parents of Southern Arizona provides a wide variety of programs and services that support families of children with disabilities.
Prevent Child Abuse Arizona is a chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. We are a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent the abuse and neglect of Arizona's children. Our work strengthens families so that costly legal and social intervention is not needed. We focus strategically on new parents, early in the family life cycle. Our objective is to reach all parents of newborns with research-based services so they can succeed in keeping their children safe and healthy
PSI Navigator Public Service Information
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
RFB&D creates
opportunities for grade K thru Graduate Level students, who cannot read standard
print due to a disability. RFB&D helps such students, and the teachers and
parents who support them, by providing access to its library of more then 110,00
textbooks on CD and cassette tape.
RSA Rehabilitation Services Administration
We strive to support the DES mission of promoting the safety, well-being, and self sufficiency of children, adults, and families by working with individuals with disabilities to achieve increased independence and/or gainful employment through the provision of comprehensive rehabilitative and employment support services in a partnership with all stakeholders.
The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination
Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
Vision loss is a condition that can affect every aspect of a person's life. often, Veterans and their families are unaware of the health and rehabilitation services available to Veterans experiencing loss in vision
State of Arizona
Official
State of Arizona Web Site.
Sun Sounds
of Arizona provides audio access to information to people in the Southwest who
cannot read print because they have a disability.
Service is available on the radio, web, telephone, as a
podcast, in hospitals and
residential facilities, and in Yuma on Time-Warner Cable Channel 70.
Ticket to Work Work Incentives
Social Security’s
Ticket to Work Program is free, voluntary and available to most people who
receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security
Income (SSI) benefits because they are disabled or blind. Eligible
beneficiaries may choose to assign their Ticket to an Employment Network (EN) of
their choice or to a State Vocational Rehabilitation (SVR) agency to obtain
employment services and supports necessary to achieve a work goal. The
EN/SVR, if they accept the Ticket, will coordinate and provide appropriate
services to help the beneficiary find and maintain employment.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Ready. (Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed) Preparing makes since for people with disabilities and special needs.
Western Arizona Council of Governments
Welcome to the Western Arizona Council of Governments (WACOG) website. Founded in 1971, WACOG is a governmental non-profit that is dedicated to serving its local jurisdictions, income challenged households, and vulnerable populations in Yuma, La Paz, and Mohave Counties.
There is no substitute for the feelings associated with complete independence and security. The Wyng™ bath system can deliver both, at least when it comes to bathing. The Wyng™ bath system was designed to address the design and budget challenges facing the disabled community and the service providers that work with them. This is the first and only company to design and build a complete bath access system from the ground up utilizing the principles of universal design.
To relieve hunger, increase self reliance, and improve the quality of life for children and families throughout southwestern Arizona
Yuma County Housing Department
Provides both Conventional and Section 8 Assistance
Yuma County Library District is your center for information, community enrichment, recreational reading, and lifelong learning.
Yuma Private Industry Council (YPIC)
The Yuma Private Industry Council is a private non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide job seeker and employer services in the Yuma County labor market. Incorporated in 1988, YPIC serves as the Private Sector partner in the Public/Private Workforce Development Partnership with the Yuma County Board of Supervisors. With the advent of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the Yuma County Board of Supervisors designated YPIC as the official operator or the "one-Stop" delivery system for workforce development services in Yuma County.