Community Services & Resources

RES Success - RES Success supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with day programs that build dignity and independence in a context of kindness. We help the people we support connect with their communities and pursue the goals and dreams that matter most to them. The programs at RES Success are for adults with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum disorder.

​Through the Looking Glass - The mission of Through the Looking Glass is to provide and encourage respectful and empowering services - guided by personal disability experience and disability culture - for families that have children, parents, or grandparents with disability or medical issues. Home-based services as well as youth groups are offered to children and youth with disabilities, medical issues, mental health challenges, or other developmental concerns. They also provide adaptive equipment for parents and other caregivers with disabilities.

Toolworks - Toolworks operates janitorial and staffing businesses which employ over 100 individuals with disabilities, providing social services to over 500 individuals with disabilities every year. They offer employment services, vocational training, and the full range of support that allows individuals to live independently.

United Cerebral Palsy of the Golden Gate (UCPGG) - UCPGG provides several programs for people with Cerebral Palsy. Their Everyone In Afterschool program enables children with disabilities to attend traditional afterschool care programs by providing them with recreation assistants. UCPGG pays for the recreation assistant and the participating family is only responsible for the traditional charges of the afterschool program that they choose. Their Special Needs Aquatic Program (SNAP) is their motor development program in the water for children with a variety of abilities and challenges. They also provide a Hoops Basketball Camp, allowing special needs youngsters aged 6 to 18 an opportunity to participate in athletics in a supportive, positive, and fun environment.

The Center for Accessible Technology (C4AT) - C4AT's mission centers on expanding access to assistive technology, digital environments, including websites and apps, and essential services. They work with individuals, employers, educators, and families to identify and implement access and communication solutions, by providing evaluation, consultation, setup, and training services for people with disabilities who need access to digital tools, and/or access to employment or education through digital tools.

Full Circle of Choices - Full Circle of Choices is a non-profit agency, established in 1997, to help adults with developmental disabilities live independently in their own homes and participate freely in their communities. They can help with obtaining and maintaining housing, household management, personal care, healthy living, emergency response, managing finances, problem solving, self-advocacy, and safety, among other things.

Independent Living Resources (ILR) - ILR strives to give individuals living with a disability the opportunity for a normal, independent lifestyle, with their main goal being to incorporate those with disabilities into the community - eliminating all institutional, social, and attitudinal barriers that hinder progress. ILR's services are free of charge for persons with disabilities and seniors, their families, and the agencies that serve them. Their services range from Accessibility and Assistive Technology, to Benefit Counseling & Advocacy to Independent Living Skills Training.

Disability Rights California (DRC) - DRC is the agency designated under federal law to protect and advocate for the rights of Californians with disabilities. They are the largest disability rights organization in the United States, and they assist people who have disabilities with litigation, legal representation, advocacy services, investigations, public policy, as well as provide information, advice, referral, and community outreach. They have advocacy programs ranging from the Housing Stability Project, the California Office of Patients' Rights, as well as the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance program.

VistAbility - VistAbility is a non-profit community-based organization that was founded in 1965 by parents and family members of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They provide Community Access Services such as Tailored Day Services and Community Access Programs, Employment Services, Early Access Services for children up to three years old who demonstrate developmental delays or who are at risk for such delays, Family Support Services such as After School Programs and their Care Parent Network, as well as Behavioral Services for children and adults.

The Center for Social Dynamics (CSD) - CSD is an organization for individuals with autism and other behavioral health needs. Through diagnostic evaluations, comprehensive and focused ABA therapies, Speech and Occupational therapies, and counseling services, they motivate individuals to embrace learning by embedding therapy within their natural routines at home, in school, at their Centers, or out in the community.  They also offer a children's camp as well as parent and family education.