Advancing Inclusion • Empowering Lives • Creating Community

Advocates has over 1,000 dedicated professionals serving approximately 1,000 individuals and families throughout Central New York.

Advocates Transforms Lives!

By giving today, you can help Advocates provide ongoing support for children and adults with disabilities and their families

Transforming Lives

Advocates supports children and adults with disabilities and their families with 1:1 Mentors/support staff, self-directed Community Habilitation and self-directed residential supports with a Backup Mentor service. We provide Family Training, Family Reimbursement for respite, Service Access, Medical Advocacy and Family Recreation

Self-Directed Support

We offer individualized supports so that people with disabilities can direct their own lives and create a vision for their future.

Family Support Services

We offer financial support with respite and goods and services such as classes, summer camp scholarships, therapeutic horseback riding, adaptive swimming lessons, and so much more.

Family Training

We offer information and resources on service access, financial planning, trusts, guardianship, communication and other topics to assist family members.

"To me, this journey and experience has enlightened my life as well as Jose’s. At Advocates, we look out for each other and we are there for each other."

- Jose's Father

"Advocates helps me to do the things I like to do, meet goals in my life, and overcome my fears."

- Jose

"Kathy has grown as an individual, works with her Mentors on independence and self-expression, and is an active member of the community."

- Kathy's Mother

"The staff have been awesome, and we could not have hoped for such a great, positive experience for Nadia."

- Nadia's Mother

"My goal is help expand lives so that individuals become as independent as possible."

- Advocates' Mentor

"I have a strong desire to assist each individual with specific goals, balancing compassion and understanding, and a willingness to set priorities so that each individual succeeds."

- Advocates' Mentor

"Because of her Mentors, Kathy gives much more thought in her decision-making and the support she receives from Advocates is purposeful."

- Kathy's Mother

Attention

Advocates remains dedicated to safeguarding your health, in addition to the health of your family, our employees and our community. We are closely following the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and regulatory agencies that is being updated daily to inform agency decisions. We encourage you to use the CDC as your primary source of information about what actions to take to protect your health. CDC website: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html 

As the Advocates team works together to support you and your family through this difficult time, we encourage you to discuss personal protective measures and social distancing with your family.


Centers for Disease Control website: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html   

Department of Health website: https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/coronavirus/ 

Novel Coronavirus Hotline (Department of Health): 1-888-364-3065 

Department of Health

 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is urging the entire country to immediately practice social distancing to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. 

What does social distancing mean and why it is essential to control the COVID-19 outbreak?: https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/13/what-is-social-distancing/

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