Local Resources Directory
Nassau County & Eastern Queens
Medical
Crisis Support
- Long Island Crisis Center – crisis hotline (516) 679-1111
Multipurpose
- A-1 Universal Care (Plainview) – community hab., day hab., respite, support brokerage, fiscal intermediary, siupported employment
- ACDS (Plainview) – educational (EI, preschool), day care, residential, respite / recreational, day hab., support brokerage
- ACLD (Various) – educational, assessments, respite, recreational, medicaid coordination, resiodential, day hab., vocational, health, etc.
- AHRC (Various) – educational, day hab., residential, community hab., respite, guardianship, vocational
- FREE (Old Bethpage) – employment, housing, behavioral services, day services, community / family support, self-direction, crisis services
Recreational / Leisure
- ACDS (Plainview) – various activities available, such as dance, canoeing, sports training, weekend socials
- Adler Center for Special Needs (Plainview) – JCC with various activities available, such as weight training, aerobics, dance, bowling, cooking, art
- Backyard Players and Friends (Rockville Centre) – provides various activities emphasizing inclusion, including art, fitness, music, theater, dance
- Be The Best Sport (Port Washington) – offer adaptive sports instruction and socialization
- Bricks 4 Kidz (Massapequa) – provides various activities involving Legos and robotics
- Dancing Dreams (Bay Shore) – dancing program designed for individuals with physical and cognitive needs
- Ezra Center for Peole with Disabilities (Oceanside) – JCC with various activities available, including art, theater, sports, fitness
- Family Center for Autism (Garden City) – Life’s Worc facility that offers a wide range of recreational activities
- Farmingdale Gymnastics Academy (Farmingdale) – offers integrated gymnastics programs
- Filling a Need (FAN) Club (Wantagh) – social events for individuals who have aged out of activities (over 21)
- HOPE Fitness (North Bellmore, East Meadow) – offers inclusion-based fitness and sports training
- HorseAbilkity (Old Westbury) – offers horseback riding programs
- League of Yes (East Meadow) – baseball program for individuals with disabilities
- Life’s Worc (Garden City) – offers multiple recreational activities for multiple ages, including Zumba, karate, and yoga
- Lightning Warriors (Seaford) -inclusive triathlon training
- Little League Challenger (Various) – adaptiove little league designed for individuals with cognitive and physical challenhes
- Mid-Island Gymnastics )Hicksville) – gymnastics for children with special needs
- Nassau County PAL (Various) – special needs unit of PAL offering various recreational activities
- Power Pals (Port Washington) – fitness programs for indivudals with special needs
- Saf-T-Swim (Various) – offers swimming lessons for individuals with special need
- Sensory Beans (Wantagh) – offers an indoor sesnory gym for all
- Surfers Way (Long Beach) – offers surfing programs for kids with special needs
Summer Camp
- Camp Adler for Children with Special Needs (Plainview) – special education camp with full inclusion
- Camp Kehilla (Greenvale) – day camp designed for individuals with special needs
- Camp Ramapo (Rhinebeck) – designed to address a range of cognitive, social, and emotional challenges
Suffolk County
Crisis Support
- Family Services League (Huntington) – Diagnostic, Assessment, Stabilization Hub (DASH), mobile crisis, trauama & suicide support
- Long Island Crisis Center – crisis hotline (516) 679-1111
Medical
- Angela’s House (Hauppauge) – provides coordination of complex home care services for medically fragile children
Multipurpose
- ACLD (Various) – educational, assessments, respite, recreational, medicaid coordination, resiodential, dayhab, vocational, health, etc.
- FREE (Hauppauge) – employment, housing, behavioral services, day services, community / family support, self-direction, crisis services
Recreational / Leisure
- Ariella’s NY Friendship Circle (Dix Hills) – provides various activities emphasizing inclusion, including art, cooking, chorus, fitness, music
- Breakthrough Intensive Physical Therapy (Islandia) – provides group fitness and conditioning
- Bricks 4 Kidz (Smithtown) – provides various activities involving Legos and robotics
- Butler Special Needs Center (Commack) – offers programs in the areas of life skills, socialization, and fitness
- Challenger Athletics (Bay Shore) – sports programs for individuals with physical and learning disabilities.
- Circle of One (Bay Shore) – marial arts program offering services for individuals with special needs
- Dew Drop Inn (Patchogue) – a place to gather for all for social purposes
- Emilia’s NY Studio of Dance (Dix Hills) – offers a dancing program designed to meet the needs of individuals with physical and cognitive needs
- Four Star Ranch (Medford) – offer horseback riding programs
- Great Strides Long Island (Middle Island) – offers horseback riding programs
- HOPE Fitness (Bohemia) – offers inclusion-based fitness and sports training
- Inclusive Sports and Fitness (Holbrook) – inclusion-based sports and fitness programs
- Just for Kicks (East Islip) – soccer program for individuals on the autism spectrum
- KIDS Plus, Inc. (Northport) – sports and fitness program for young adults with autism and developmental disabilities
- League of Yes (Farmingville) – baseball program for individuals with disabilities
- Lightning Warriors (Stony Brook, Huntington) -inclusive triathlon training
- Little League Challenger (Various) – adaptiove little league designed for individuals with cognitive and physical challenhes
- LI Traditional Tae Kwon Do (East Setauket) – martial arts programs for ids with special needs
- MSC Kyle Sports for Special Needs (Mastic) – inclusion sports for children with special needs
- Pal-o-mine Equestrian (Islandia) – adaptive horseback riding for individuals with special needs
- Parkview Riding Center (Central Islip) – adaptive horseback riding for individuals with special needs
- Saf-T-Swim (Various) – offers swimming lessons for individuals with special need
- Spiraling Hearts Kids Yoga (Lindenhurst) – offers yoga programs for kids with special needs
Summer Camp
- Camp Ramapo (Rhinebeck) – designed to address a range of cognitive, social, and emotional challenges
Therapeutic
- Canine Companions (Farmingdale) – assistance dogs free of charge to build independence for individuals with disabilities