DDS Family Support Centers

Find Services for Adults with IDD, with a focus on Older Caregivers

DDS Family Support Centers

Find Services for Adults with IDD, with a focus on Older Caregivers

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Contact Information

Advocates
Contact: Elizabeth Bardasz, Senior Director of Developmental & Brain Injury Day Services
Email Address: ebardasz@advocates.org
Phone: 508-881-6998
Fax: 508-881-7137

290 Eliot Street Ashland, MA 01721-2351
Area Served: Central

Map Location Community Based Day Supports at Advocates Life Skills and Learning Center

Narrative

We provide people with disabilities (PwD) a range of opportunities to learn, grow, and join in their communities. Our Day and Employment Services are at locations in Ashland, Franklin, Millbury, Plainville, and Sterling. We partner with adults and their families to provide experiences and activities suited to each person’s interests, skills, needs, and goals.

Whether it’s by continuing education, improving overall health and wellness, giving back to the community, finding employment, or exploring new hobbies. Our Day and Employment Services encourage adults with disabilities on a lifetime path of self-exploration and development.

Our facilities house fitness facilities, art and kitchen spaces, vocational training spaces, and more. We also foster connections to the community. Partnering with libraries, arts groups, local businesses, and other organizations give even more chances for people to lead active and fulfilling lives.

Service Types

  • Community Based Day Program
  • Day Activity
  • Relationship/Friendship Support
  • Relationship/Friendship Trainings
  • Skills Training
  • Socialization Activities

Program Type

  • Day/Work Activity
  • Vocational

Populations Served

  • Asperger's Syndrome
  • Autism Spectrum
  • Behavior Disorder
  • Birth Defects
  • Brain/Head Injury
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Deaf
  • DeafBlind
  • Developmental Disability
  • Dual Diagnosis - ID/MI
  • Epilepsy/seizure Disorder
  • Intellectual Disabilities
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Multiple Disability
  • Physical Disabilities
  • Rare disorders/low incidence

Ages Served

  • 19 - 22
  • 23 – 59
  • 60 +

Languages Spoken

  • American Sign Language

Accessibility Features

  • Able to serve clients in their wheelchair
  • Accessible Parking
  • Accessible Restrooms
  • Near Public Transportation
  • Sign Language
  • Wheelchair Ramps

Additional Information

  • Accredited By: DDS
  • Fees: Free Service, MassHealth, Personal Funds
  • Licensed By: DDS
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