LIFESPIRE INC
ONE WHITEHALL STREET 9TH FL, NEW YORK, NY 10004 www.lifespire.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: LIFESPIRE, INCS. MISSION IS TO CHAMPION AND SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL/INTELECTUAL DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES TO REALIZE THEIR GOALS AND DREAMS. THE AGENCY IS FUNDED THROUGH GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, CONSUMER CONTRIBUTIONS AND GIFTS. IT IS THE AGENCY'S AIM TO PROVIDE INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES THE ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE A LEVEL OF FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORS AND COGNITIVE SKILLS TO ENABLE THEM TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES IN THEIR COMMUNITY IN THE MOST INTEGRATED AND INDEPENDENT MANNER POSSIBLE.

To champion and support people who have intellectual/developmental disabilities to realize their goals and dreams.

Residential services - Provide a variety of options, dependent upon the level of assistance needed by each individual. Each facility allows the highest degree of Independence. Some of these options include: - intermediate care facilities: offer comprehensive professional residential services. Also offered is care for adults with multiple Disabilities. - community residences: provide structured and supervised community living services. - individualized residential alternatives: innovative residential services individually designed for developmentally disabled adults whose needs may not be met by traditional services.

Waiver services - Offers choices for individualized treatment and training to people with deficits in self care and domestic and independent living skills. Some of these services are: - community habilitation: an in-home trainer helps the individual in the privacy of his/her own home and community to acquire and improve skills in many areas. - Day habilitation: day programming which offers training in self-care, domestic, travel and independent living skills. It provides a unique opportunity to acquire skills in actual community sites. - prevocational: day programming which addresses the individual's vocational interests. It aims at providing opportunities for individuals with limited work related skills to participate in the appropriate tasks to enhance their ability to obtain integrated employment. - plan of care support services: provide support to individuals enrolled in the home and community-based services waiver who have opted out of medicaid service coordination. - waiver respite: waiver after-school respite programming offers recreation services to students, children and adults with development disabilities; ages 14-21 and over. It uses the combination of specialty instructors and community-based recreation, access top recreational activities in the community through the use of technology To enable them to enjoy leisure time parallel to their non-disabled peers.

Article 16 clinic-designed to meet the specific clinical needs of developmentally disabled individuals and to help sustain them in their communities. The clinic provides personal assessment and treatment by professional, fully-accredited practitioners. Some of the services currently provided include: psychological counseling, rehabilitation counseling, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, Psychosocial assessment, nutrition, sexuality counseling, medical examinations and psychiatry.

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