About Us
Disability Network has been the first stop for people with disabilities and their families in Southwest Michigan since 1981. Explore our website and learn more about us!
We provide services to people with a variety of disabilities, including physical, neurological, psychiatric, learning, cognitive, and sensory disabilities. Whether you were born with a disability or acquired a disability later in life through accident, illness or through the aging process, you are welcome here. We are a resource for friends and family members of people with disabilities as well as community professionals and other human service providers.
We provide services to local units of government and the business and non-profit communities by providing information, training, technical assistance and support in learning to be welcoming of people with disabilities as customers, clients, patrons, volunteers, or employees.
We work in partnership with other organizations that provide services to persons with disabilities, being careful not to duplicate services but to fill unique niches and address unmet need. We are careful stewards of the financial support we receive.
What is unique about us is that we, too, are people with disabilities! At least 51% of our Board of Directors and staff members identify as having some kind of disability. Our philosophy has always been that people who live the disability experience are experts on disability issues, and that services we provide should be created with the direct input of those they will impact. That makes us different from the traditional social services model.
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