United Way of Hudson County’s
Impact on Special Needs
United Way of Hudson County serves our special needs community by connecting parents of children and adult children with disabilities and professionals with resources that can help their families with specific issues affecting particular disabilities. We provide leadership on special health care issues. We offer parents networking opportunities with other families and professionals. We raise community awareness surrounding specific special needs issues. We stand up, speak out and advocate for those who need our help.
The United Way of Hudson County serves our special needs communities by:
- funding a Saturday drop-in program for people with emotional disabilities in Hudson County
- forming an independent advisory board for a social service agency that works with emotionally and physically disabled adults and children
- funding a sensory room for low-functioning residents and elderly Alzheimer’s patients at a full-time care center in Jersey City
- funding case management for 200 people living with HIV/AIDS in Hudson County
- funding a voluntary action center that provides resources for people with special needs
- funding job training for 18 Hudson residents with disabilities
- funding health insurance for children with disabilities in Hudson County
- funding training for volunteers who care for 375 patients and their families in Hudson
- funding a day care program for children in North Hudson whose single parents are participating in a welfare-to-work program
- funding for a battered women’s shelter
- funding a day care program for able-bodied and disabled children in an integrated setting
- funding a sensory room for disabled adults and children with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
