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 Special Education Employment / Training Supported Employment Family & Support Services Family Support
Health Services	Intellectual and Developmental Needs Advocacy Assistive Technology Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Special Needs
Treatment Services	In-Community Services Individual Support Services (ISS)
Payment Types	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: 05/12/24