Agency Details:

Easter Seals Bay Area

Mission: Easter Seals Bay Area leads the way to ensure individuals and families affected by disabilities can live, learn, work, and play to their full potential.

Vision: By providing a continuum of the highest quality, inclusive services available anywhere in the Bay Area, we ensure that:

All children with disabilities will receive the customized educational and therapeutic services needed to gain the skills necessary for active participation in their communities;

All families of children with disabilities will receive the support they need to have peace of mind, assured that their children are receiving the best educational and therapeutic care available anywhere in the Bay Area; and

All adults with physical or developmental disabilities will have access to the highest quality customized educational and therapeutic activities enabling them to maximize their independence, regain mobility, reduce pain and maintain optimum health.

Description:
For more than 80 years, Easter Seals Bay Area has been leading the way to ensure individuals and families affected by disabilities can live, learn, work, and play to their full potential. Easter Seals Bay Area has a specific expertise in providing services for individuals and families affected by autism, including consultation, early intervention, school-based, social skills and therapeutic services. The organization also runs the highly-regarded Kaleidoscope after-school program in the Tri Valley area for youth ages five to 22 with disabilities and developmental delays. Easter Seals Bay Area serves Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Solono counties, and is an affiliate of Easter Seals, Inc., which assists more than a million people through a nationwide network of affiliates in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Easter Seals is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization.

Contact people:

Theresa Hogan, Program Coordinator, (phone), (email) Jenifer Reeve, Program Manager, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (510) 444-2470

Address:

180 Grand Ave. Suite 300 Oakland, CA 94612 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.eastersealsbayarea.org

Last updated on October 20, 2009