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Community Options, Inc.
ADDRESS
16 Farber Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
PHONE
609-951-9900
FAX
609-951-9112
INTERNET ADDRESS
ADMINISTRATOR
Corey Hribar, Executive Director
DESCRIPTION
A national, non-profit organization providing employment
services and appropriate housing for more than 1500 people
with disabilities throughout New Jersey, New York, New Mexico,
Tennessee, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Texas. The
agency also advocates for disability issues worldwide by sharing
its expertise, knowledge and best practices in Egypt, Belgium,
Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
PROGRAMS
Employment: People with severe disabilities are placed in real
jobs at minimum wage or better. The technology department
works with employers to adapt and apply relevant technology.
Option Quest: A community based alternative to traditional
day programs. Activities include employment, volunteer
opportunities, continuing education, civic, community and
recreational activities.
Community Options Business Advisory Council (COBAC):
Council membership is composed of local civic leaders who
advise the executive directors of local Community Options
offices on important issues, help to organize and carry out
fundraising activities, and to extablish and maintain corporate
and civic ties in each locality where Community Options operates
a program. The Council also provides expertise in identifying
vendors, analyzing local labor markets, locating job
opportunities and developing business plans for micro-
enterprises.
Community Options Incubation Network (COINet): a business
incubator designed to afford entrepreneurs with disabilities an
opportunity to pursue their business goals and contribute to
economic growth within their communities. This model of
business incubation supports and encourages entrepreneurial
development in the disability market. The program is based in
Morristown and Princeton. The common interest for all new
firms supported by the program is the development of new
products, processes and services targeted to the disabiity
market.
Lectures and speaking engagements
FOUNDED
1989
SUBJECTS
Disabilities Services
Advocacy
LAST UPDATED
9/08