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More than 100 members of the Long Island disabled community gathered to help launch Kinexion, a new non-profit that will organize an existing family of affiliate organizations, now with with 4,000 employees serving more than 10,000 developmentally and physically disabled people on Long Island, here today.
Kinexion (pronounced “connection”), will oversee seven separate non-profits that provide residential, education, vocational training, early and special education, therapeutic programs, housing and day habilitation programs for the intellectually and physically disabled community, medically frail children, and people living with traumatic brain injury.
Kinexion will provide support and services that enable people with disabilities and their families to live their best life, for life. Kinexion will stand as an operational model of excellence and sustainability, equipping network partners with the financial strength and resources to deliver lifetime care that enhances the purpose and well-being of people with disabilities, their families, and our community. It will further energize a symbiotic network of partners by providing the infrastructure that frees them to focus on what they do best: offer best-in-class services to individuals with disabilities and build a new reality where society embraces people of all abilities.
Kinexion will become the Master Service Organization (MSO) under which its seven affiliate organizations will be grouped, including:
- IGHL: Independent Group Home Living’s innovative services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities include residential, day habilitation, vocational training and employment programs.
- NIS: The New Interdisciplinary School is an innovative early childhood learning center that respects the unique needs of all children and their families. Their commitment is to provide therapuetic and educational services in a nurtuting environemnt with the highest standards of expertise.
- Angela’s House: Assists families caring for children with special healthcare needs that are medically fragile, chronically ill or living with a life theratening illness.
- Maryhaven: The mission of Maryhaven is to enrich the lives of people with special needs. They provide support with compassion in our residential, day habilitation, and vocational services while promoting individuality and integration.
- Head Injury Association: The mission is to maximize potential among TBI survivors, and those with intellectual or physical disabilities, by providing the necessary residential and support programs to help them achieve four valued outcomes: Individualization, Independence, Integration and productivity.
- East End Disability Asscoiates (EEDA): Dedicated to creating practical solutions and providing innovative supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities on the East End of Long Island.
- The Center for Developmental Disabilities: Committed to helping children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning and enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
“By being part of a large organization, our agencies get to participate in sharing in costs and saving money and in learning new things about providing the best services we can for the people that we serve,” said Walter W. Stockton, CEO of Kinexion. “We also like to think that by combining back-office staff, since we all need to have back-office staffs, that we could save that money and put that back into our programs that are so very important to the people that we serve.”
The name Kinexion was chosen because of its verbal similarity to what the new MSO will do, which is connect the seven affiliate organizations. Kinexion will:
- Focus on the whole person
- Deliver excellence, every day
- Put families first
- Embody care and compassion
- Embrace innovation
- Foster collaboration and respect
- Maintain sustainability in a changing landscape
“This is a terrific advancement in the effort to provide accessible and effective services for the disabled community on Long Island,” said Kerri Neifeld, Commissioner of the State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). “Our neighbors with special needs deserve the best possible care, which these affiliates have always provided and will continue to provide, now on a more effective scale. We look forward to continuing our work with Kinexion and its affiliates for years to come.”
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