Additional Services

NCCI offers a diverse variety of additional services designed to meet various needs, and if we don’t currently provide the specific assistance you require, we will make it a priority to direct you to a suitable agency that can help you effectively.

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  • Teaching everyday living skills, including budgeting, transportation, maintaining a household, finding and keeping a job, pursuing further education or training, managing personal care, and maintaining good health.

  • Staff and volunteers with disabilities share experiences and support others with disabilities as they explore their world and work to set and reach their goals.

  • Open Doors helps people living in nursing homes and intermediate care facilities get home and community-based services so they can move out and live in their own homes. Transition specialists meet with people with disabilities and / or family members to identify support services needed to achieve or regain independence and community living.

  • NY Connect is a program that connects people with services and supports in the community that can help them achieve and maintain independence.

    NY Connects is for people of all ages, any disability, and for caregivers. NY Connects can work with anyone who needs information on community long term services and supports, including children or adults with disabilities, older adults, family members, and caregivers, friends or neighbors, veterans, and helping professionals. NY Connects can help with a wide range of services, including: personal care services, education and counseling, behavioral health, developmental supports and services, health and wellness, and social supports.

  • Helping people with disabilities fix barriers in their own homes, and those they encounter in the community.

  • Helping people with disabilities apply for and manage:

    • Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

    • Social Security Disability (SSDI)

    • Medicaid

    • Medicare

    • Ticket To Work Program

    • Public Assistance

    • Food Stamps

    • Other financial benefits

  • The North Country Center for Independence is dedicated to helping veterans with disabilities lead satisfying lives with respect and dignity. We do this by:

    Ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them.

    Fighting for America’s injured heroes in government policy.

    Educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life.

    For links to disabled veteran services, visit our Resources page.