AHRC Celebrates 65 Years of Helping Clients Achieve Their Dreams

AHRC Nassau recently celebrated its 65th anniversary at its annual membership luncheon that featured a video presentation highlighting the organization’s history and mission in the Long Island community. Over the decades, the program, which began as a small summer camp in the 1950s, has focused on helping people with developmental disabilities to follow their dreams and make their own choices.

As the agency grew, it expanded to include a residential program, a program for school-age children, and employment services. Now, AHRC supports more than 2,000 people with development disabilities and their families, providing comprehensive care for individuals with special needs and consolidated support services that range from respite care for families to residential placement for clients. AHRC also helps clients to find meaningful work through numerous job placement and training programs, including supported employment. Through this program, AHRC works with businesses such as Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, which hires people with developmental disabilities.

Hallie Greene, a director at Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, is a board member of AHRC Nassau.

Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates: Supporting Camp Loyaltown

Situated in the beautiful Catskills Mountains, just several hours north of New York City, AHRC’s Camp Loyaltown provides a safe and fun summer camp experience every year to over 650 campers with special needs. A program of Citizens, Inc., one of the leading providers of services for those with developmental and intellectual disabilities, the camp has operated for more than four decades.

Corporate, foundation, and government funds help keep tuition costs manageable. Additionally, many fundraising events are held in support of this venture, including the Camp Loyaltown Auction. Through donor support, the auction has raised funds for worthy projects such as paving camp roads for wheelchair accessibility, installing a solar-panel-heated swimming pool, and offering therapeutic horseback rides.

The law firm of Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates attended the auction in 2012, which sought to raise funds to install an interactive sensory garden on the campgrounds, to further engage campers in nature.