Intersect for Ability

A collaborative network of non-profit agencies located in the Chicago Metropolitan area that serve individuals with developmental disabilities.

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Intersect for Ability is a collaborative network of multiple non-profit agencies located in the Chicago Metropolitan area that serve individuals with developmental disabilities. Projects completed by this group have far exceeded the potential of any single agency, resulting in better outcomes for the individuals they serve.

Developmental Disability Awareness Night 2021

Thank you for joining us for our 2nd Annual Developmental Disability Awareness Night at Guaranteed Rate Field on September 15, 2021! It was a huge success. See you next year!

DDAN 2021 Photos

Building Supportive Workplace Cultures (BSWC) – Partnered with PHI International

August 19, 2021

Direct service personnel (DSP) are front-line professionals who interact directly and daily with people with I/DD assisting with the activities of daily living, serving as advocates for those in their care, and enabling these individuals to have the highest quality of life possible. Over the past serval decades, a high turnover rate in the number … More Building Supportive Workplace Cultures (BSWC) – Partnered with PHI International

CURRENT

August 19, 2021

June 2020 – March 2021 The coronavirus pandemic and other structural changes in the I/DD community have significantly altered how the Intersect for Ability organizations will work now and in the future. Agencies want and need a method of providing quality, individualized, daily activities for participants, no matter where they spend their day. In 2020, … More CURRENT

Quality of Life Training Project

May 3, 2017

A quality of life (QOL) measure that helps articulate an individual’s, wishes, hopes and dreams is a critically needed tool to help service providers move away from a deficit based assessment system that creates goals, perhaps unimportant to the individual, towards a person-centered planning system that helps to truly understand what is important to individuals … More Quality of Life Training Project

Building Bridges to the Future

An initiative program to assist families and professionals in transitioning students with developmental disabilities to the world of adult services