New Jersey Institute For Disabilities

The history of New Jersey Institute for Disabilities, previously known as Cerebral Palsy Association of Middlesex County, is one of the great success stories of New Jersey. The Association was founded by two families whose children had cerebral palsy. These volunteers established the Cerebral Palsy Association of Middlesex County which was incorporated as a not- for-profit corporation in New Jersey in 1949. Since that time, the Agency has evolved into one of the most comprehensive and well respected community agencies in New Jersey given to the care and treatment of children and adults with developmental and related disabilities. In 2007, the Association service-marked a new name: New Jersey Institute for Disabilities which more descriptive of the expansive scope of the agency. With a dedicated staff of more than 400 employees, in 32 locations throughout the state, the Cerebral Palsy Association of Middlesex County is now one of the largest not-for-profit agencies of its kind in the nation. Each year, more than 1500 infants, children and adults with disabilities and their families have been helped by the unique continuum of services provided by the Association.

The New Jersey Institute for Disabilities is dedicated to the provision of comprehensive, superior, multi-faceted programs of service to individuals with developmental and related disabilities regardless of race, gender, creed, economic status or age. To this end, the agency shall: ? offer programs to enrich the lives and enhance the development of each infant, child and adult with developmental and related disabilities to enable each individual to achieve full potential; ? provide, as early as possible, evaluation, identification, diagnosis and treatment to infants, children and adults so that the number and severity of handicaps can be significantly reduced; ? foster dignity, independence and purposefulness to all who enter into the programs of the agency; ? maintain the community?s trust and confidence in the work of the agency.