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The Columbus Developmental Center (CDC) is a state-supported residential school for people with developmental disabilities, located in the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The school, founded in 1857, was the third of these programs developed by a U.S. state, after Massachusetts in 1848 and New York in 1851. [1]
Hattie Larlham is an American nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for more than 1,600 children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state of Ohio. [1] Services provided encompass medical, work training and employment, recreational, educational, and residential, catering to both children and adults.
American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) (1995) – a cross-disability organization that focuses on advocacy and services. American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD) (1975) – coalition of local, state and national disability organizations. [1]
COTA Mainstream is an on-demand shared-ride program for riders with disabilities. [ 53 ] Seasonal or event-based services include the summertime "Zoo Bus" to the Columbus Zoo , [ 54 ] the "Bus it to the Buckeyes" service for Ohio State University football games at the Ohio Stadium , and the "Zoom to Boom" service to the city's July 4 fireworks ...
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, a disability-led nonprofit, maintains a hotline for people with disabilities to request help in a disaster.
In 2006, ODJFS took away the license for Lifeway For Youth, a nonprofit Christian-based placement agency, due to the death of a 3-year-old boy. [7] Barbara Riley, then the director of ODJFS, questioned "how the private placement agency Lifeway for Youth, Butler County Children Services, and her own department failed the boy."
President Nixon with Peter Helteme, 1971 Easter Seal Child and family. Easterseals (formerly known as Easter Seals; [1] founded in 1919 as the National Society for Crippled Children) [2] is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing disability services, with additional support areas serving veterans and military families, seniors, and caregivers.
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