We create a nurturing environment and innovative opportunities for adults with disabilities to empower growth and unity in our community.
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DANI pioneered person-centered services, championing inclusivity and empowerment
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We enhance and unlock individual strengths through life skills training and personal goal actualization.
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Our campuses are hubs for belonging that foster friendships, a sense of purpose, and community.
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We integrate our members into society through active involvement, volunteering, and employment.
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We are building a world that celebrates each individual's unique abilities, where everyone can thrive and achieve a dignified independent life as equal members of their community.
Identify
Our expert team collaborates with individuals, and their network, to understand needs, interests, and desires - recognizing each person's unique talents, potential, and self-advocated life goals.
We have developed methodologies through art and music that has increased their ability to communicate thoughts, feelings, and desires.
Develop
Our Goal Action Programs (GAPs) are tailored to each individual and fashioned to elevate unique skills and talents. GAPs feature clearly defined tasks and milestones, along with regular assessments, to ensure optimal results.
No activities are preset; all our efforts are specifically directed towards achieving goals and enhancing unique skills and talents.
Empower
Participants receive systematic guidance from our multidisciplinary staff, mentors, and volunteers to develop their strengths.
We appreciate that there's an individual with dreams and aspirations just like everyone else. Our focus is on using individuals' skills to foster independence, self-satisfaction, and to become a valued member of their community.
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APPROACH
Success hinges on the dedicated effort one puts into their goals. This is why we meticulously plan and structure personalized programs to ensure a perfect fit for each individual.
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HISTORY
Founded on the mindset to change and do better, we are not looking to do the same thing, we want to do something different.
Since our inception in 2006 by a group of parents faced with the public support ending for their children with developmental disabilities at the age of 21, we have always put the individual and their support network first.
We have grown substantially into a dynamic and innovate charity, consistently setting new standards, while maintaining our dedication to engaging support networks to incorporate their needs, thoughts, and knowledge.
We currently serve over 400 individuals annually, and operate five dual-purpose social enterprises that financially support the charity and provide practical job training and employment opportunities for our participants.
2023
47 Participants Reached
2020
Opened 2nd Location
2017
First vocational partner Stalco
2015
25 Participants Reached
2014
DANI Café opened
2013
Move into Clark Campus
2011
First Play Performed
2010
1st Social Enterprise
2008
McAllister House opens
2007
1st Gala Dinner
2006
Parent action group formed
2007
1st Gala Dinner
2010
1st Social Enterprise
2013
Move into Clark Campus
2015
25 Participants Reached
2020
Opened 2nd Location
2006
Parent action group formed
2008
McAllister House opens
2011
First Play Performed
2014
DANI Café opened
2017
First vocational partner Stalco
2023
47 Participants Reached
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PARTNERS
Financial Partners
Vocational Partners
The amazing staff at DANI always find a way to help me achieve my goals!
Guitti P.
