ADA Watch
The ADA Watch is a non-profit informational online network designed to activate the disability community's grassroots in response to threats to civil rights protections for people with disabilities.
Center for Independent Living
An independent living center offers four core services to people with disabilities: Information and referral, living skills training, advocate assistance and peer sharing. The Center for Independent Living of Central Nebraska, Inc., offers these services to people with disabilities in order to help them meet their goals for independence.
Employment Intervention Demonstration Program
EIDP is a multisite research study of innovative programs that combine vocational rehabilitation with clinical services and supports. The study was designed to determine new ways of enhancing employment opportunities and quality of life for mental health consumers.
Hotline for Disability Services
The Hotline for Disability Services provides information and referrals to Nebraskans who have questions or concerns related to a disability. This includes information about rehabilitation services, transportation, special parking permits and legal rights.
League of Human Dignity
The League of Human Dignity is an organization of people concerned about the rights and quality of life for people with disabilities. League members collaborate to ensure social, economic and political equality for persons with disabilities. The league believes in emphasizing likeness not difference, ability not disability, normality not abnormality, and integration not segregation. The league works toward independent living for people who have disabilities.
NCWD/Youth
NCWD/Youth provides information about employment and youth with disabilities.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Nebraska
The mission of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is to provide education, advocacy and mutual support to empower Nebraskans whose lives have been touched by mental illness. The statewide organization operates in partnership with 15 local affiliates that offer monthly meetings, support groups and a caring presence to consumers with mental illness and their families.
National Council on Disability (NCD)
The National Council on Disability is an independent federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress to enhance the quality of life for all Americans with disabilities and their families. The NCD's purpose is to promote policies, programs, practices and procedures that guarantee equal opportunity for all individuals with disabilities, regardless of the nature of severity of the disability; and to empower individuals with disabilities to achieve economic self-sufficiency, independent living, and inclusion and integration into all aspects of society.
National Council on Independent Living
The NCIL is the oldest cross disability, grassroots organization run by and for people with disabilities. The organization represents more than 700 organizations and individuals that advocate for the human and civil rights of people with disabilities throughout the United States.
National Organization on Disability
The mission of the NOD is to expand the participation and contribution of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.
Nebraska Advocacy Services
Nebraska Advocacy Services, Inc. (NAS), The Center for Disability Rights, Law and Advocacy, is a private, non-profit organization designated by the Governor to protect and advocate for the rights of Nebraskans with significant physical or mental disabilities.
Nebraska Client Assistance Program
The Nebraska Client Assistance Program (CAP) is a free service to help consumers find solutions if they are having problems with any of the following programs: Vocational Rehabilitation, The Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired or Centers for Independent Living.
Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
The services provided by the Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired (NCBVI) include, but are not limited to, the following: Training in non-visual (or "low vision") skills that allow full participation in life; educational assistance such as tuition, books equipment and readers; vocational counseling and assistance in securing or maintaining employment; occupational equipment, tools and supplies; and peer support and counseling. NCBVI provides consultation services for agencies and community organizations which come into contact with blind persons.
Nebraska Commission for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
The mission of the Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is to improve the quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people of all ages by providing assistance, advocacy and access to services and information.
Nebraska Department of Education Special Populations
The Nebraska Department of Education Special Population Transition Services provide information and resources for all stakeholders involved in assisting students with disabilities as they prepare to transition from school to adult living.
Nebraska Hospice & Palliative Care Partnership
This far-reaching level of collaboration provides a strong foundation at both the professional and consumer levels to increase employment opportunities for individuals living in chronic pain and to provide valuable stakeholder input. A palliative care team works with clients with non-terminal chronic conditions to provide non-medical interventions found to contribute to the control of pain and improve their quality of life. This project utilizes teams to identify individuals, develop interventions and provide training to health care professionals as well as human service and employment staff regarding the ability for individuals with disabilities to re-enter the workforce.
Nebraska Library Commission
The Talking Book and Braille Service provides free books and magazines on cassette and in Braille to individuals with a visual or physical condition or a reading disability which limits use of regular print. Their collection of books and magazines is similar to those found in public libraries. Special cassette players are also provided free of charge. Their descriptive video collection offers audio description of the visual elements of movies and public television program videos and DVDs. Books, magazines, videos and players are mailed to and from the library postage-free.
Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services
Under the "Real Choice" grant, DHHS targets its long-term care programs that serve the aging population; as well as programs that serve both children and adults with developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, behavioral health needs, and medically-complex conditions.
Nebraska Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities
The Nebraska Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities is a 23-member council that is appointed by the Governor. The Council focuses on persons who experience a severe disability that occurs before the individual attends the age of 22, which includes persons with physical disabilities, mental/behavioral health conditions and persons that are served by the current state developmental disabilities system. The Council awards grants to various agencies to address gaps and barriers in the system. Six regional councils receive funds from the State Council to carry out the Council's goals at a local level.
Nebraska Resource and Referral System
The NRRS is a statewide database created with input from Nebraska families, service providers and organizations, and is designed to be a comprehensive internet rersource that would be user friendly and easily accessible to individuals and families needing services across the state.
Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
The Office of Disability Employment Policy provides leadership to increase employment opportunities for adults and youth with disabilities. Its customers include individuals with disabilities and their families; private employers and their employees; Federal, State and local government agencies; education and training institutions; disability advocates and providers of services and government employers. ODEP also provides information on the employment provisions of the ADA.
Paralyzed Veterans of America
The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) has worked to secure health care and benefits for veterans of the armed forces living with spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D) and has funded research into finding care and cure. PVA works to maximize the quality of life for its members and all people with SCI/D as a leading advocate for health care, SCI/D research and education, veterans' benefits and rights, accessibility and the removal of architectural barriers, sports programs and disability rights.
Veteran Affairs
The Veteran Affairs office provides information on veterans' benefits.
World Institute on Disability
WID is a non-profit public policy center dedicated to the promotion of independence and full inclusion in society of people with disabilities.