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The Primary Purpose Is To Provide And Promote Community-Based Living Accommodations For Persons With Mental Retardation And Developmental Disabilities Within Supervised And Unsupervised Home-Like Environments And To Provide Education And Formal Training So As To Raise Their Functioning Levels.

The Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR) is a national charitable organization that promotes innovation and excellence in rehabilitation in the context of HIV. CWGHR is multi-sector and multi-disciplinary in its membership and its activities. CWGHR bridges the traditionally separate worlds of HIV, disability and rehabilitation. CWGHR members include people living with HIV, community-based HIV and disability organizations, national associations of health professionals, government agencies, private businesses, and the employment sector. CWGHR undertakes and promotes research and education to expand and enhance responses to the rehabilitation needs of people living with HIV.

Their mission is to provide supports, programs and services that enhance the quality of life and independence of people with disabilities. Through a range of individualized services they seek to promote abilities and achievements that contribute to self-respect, personal development, purposeful work, and meaningful participation in the community.

RSDSA, founded in 1984, is national not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote greater public and professional awareness of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD),also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). RSD/CRPS is a neurological syndrome characterized by severe and chronic pain. It is generally the result of an initiating trauma but the resulting pain is disproportionate to the injury. In addition to pain, skin sensitivity, abnormal color changes, temperature changes, and sweating are also common. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential to avoid disabling pain, but this syndrome is consistently under-diagnosed and under-treated. One of RSDSA?s primary goals is to educate physicians and other health care professionals and the community at large. a chronic nerve disorder that may affect more than 1.5 million Americans. RSDSA conducts the following programs: publication of RSDS Review, a quarterly newsletter, refers individuals with RSD/CRPS to support groups and treatment centers, funds RSDS-related research, provides a free, informative inquiry packet upon request,has published Clinical Practice Guidelines, developed an attractive 4-color poster to promote greater awareness (free upon request), exhibits at major medical meetings,and maintains an Internet web site, www.rsds.org

The mission of Ken's Krew, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, is to provide vocational training and job placement services to young adults with cognitive disabilities who are transitioning into the workforce. Ken's Krew, through paid employment, provides the opportunity for individuals to become productive members of their community.

To sensitize the general community, Govt. and non-Govt. organizations, and parents of Special need children and provide evidence based primary and higher education to those differently able children through expanding the services, manpower, as well as the research and development programs in the field of Disability & rehabilitation.

DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity dedicated to providing opportunities for persons with and without disabilities to gain confidence and independence through participation in national and international amateur ice hockey events, and to support local, national and international amateur ice hockey players and their families in times of crisis.

The mission of United Community Options of South Florida is to positively impact the quality of life for children and adults with disabilities, as well as typically developing children, and their families, by providing a wide array of quality supports, services and programs that offer choices and options to assist each person in creating their own future based on personal goals and desires.

Beverly Farm is home to more than 380 adults living in a 220-acre community within a community located on the northern edge of Godfrey, Illinois. Beverly Farm Foundation is a loving, caring home for adults with developmental disabilities, providing each individual with physical and emotional security and a dignified quality of life, with opportunities and challenges with functional capabilities.

Yesterday’s Children, Inc. is a nonprofit organization established in 1983 and has been supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities for over 30 years. Their organization believes that all individuals through self-determination can achieve a quality of life consistent with the community in which they live, offering supports that are flexible and recognizing people’s changes throughout their life.

International Deaf Partnerships (IDP) seeks to strengthen education, promote advocacy, and improve opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing people in developing countries within the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). IDP was founded for the purpose of fostering a network of partnerships that includes deaf and hard-of-hearing communities within developing countries and the United States.

Their Christ-centered purpose is to provide family-style, residential care and sustainable solutions that fight against Haiti’s orphan crisis. They provide holistic, residential care for children in crisis by building and operating Children’s Villages with multiple family-style homes lead by Haitian House Mothers. By utilizing our resources, relationships, and our American and Haitian staff, they strive to create a circle of care around each child with the intent of giving every boy and girl the chance to reach their God-given potential. Second, they will utilize our platform to help create sustainable and dignified jobs to push against the poverty-driven child abandonment and child slavery cycles. The best orphan care strategy starts with a fight to keep families together.