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Advancing Opportunities

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Advancing Opportunities

Advancing Opportunities enhances the lives of people with all disabilities and enables full participation in society through advocacy, direct services, and education.

  • Advocacy Services: Advancing Opportunities is committed to ensuring that students receive a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.
  • Assistive Technology Services: With over 20 years of experience, Advancing Opportunities’ Assistive Technology Services team can help determine which technology would be most effective in helping you reach your goals.
  • Student Success Center: Our educational advocates are experienced in developing IEPs and transition plans with post-secondary goals in mind. The assistive technology services team helps students find the tools and devices that will allow them to reach their full potential.
  • Employment Services: Our educational advocates are experienced in developing IEPs and transition plans with post-secondary goals in mind. The assistive technology services team helps students find the tools and devices that will allow them to reach their full potential.
  • Family Support Services: Advancing Opportunities understands the stresses families face when a family member has a disability. The agency offers a comprehensive network of information, services, and support, including In-home respite, Inclusive recreation programs, and aides for community-based recreation programs.
  • Personal Assistance Services: The Personal Assistance Services Program provides personal care for adults who live in private homes in order to work, volunteer, and/or attend school. 
  • Prevention Education: Advancing Opportunities provides staff in-service training seminars on Substance Abuse and Co-existing Disabilities to service providers in the fields of substance abuse treatment and to providers of disability services.
  • Residential Supports: The agency provides residential programs that allow people with disabilities to live as independently as they are able in the communities and homes they choose.
  • Strengthening Families: The Strengthening Families Program is designed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for substance abuse, depression, violence and aggression, delinquency, and school failure in high-risk children and their parents.
Age Groups
  • Children
  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Seniors
Community Services
Education
Employment / Training
Family & Support Services
Health Services
Intellectual and Developmental Needs
Treatment Services
In-Community Services
Payment Options
  • System of Care (CSOCI Medicaid / FlexFunds)
Areas Served
  • Atlantic County
  • Bergen County
  • Burlington County
  • Camden County
  • Gloucester County
  • Hudson County
  • Mercer County
  • Morris County
  • Sussex County
  • Union County
  • Warren County

Last Updated: 11/21/23