ADA Services

Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and (US Section 504 and MA Architectural Access Board (AAB) 521 C.M.R.) Fee for Service Consultation

The ADA calls for organizations and businesses that serve the public to make their facilities, goods, and services accessible to all people.

The ADA is the nation's first comprehensive civil right law for people with disabilities. The ADA changes the way America does business.

The ADA aims to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities by ensuring equal opportunity in employment, state and local government services and programs, places of public accommodations, public and private transportation, and telecommunications.

For an affordable fee, NILP consultants will provide you with the assistance you need to bring your organization/business into full ADA/AAB compliance.

We provide consulting services for all types of businesses, colleges and universities, housing authorities, cities, towns, human service providers, recreational facilities, and more.

We survey properties for ADA and AAB compliance: The ADA requires most existing "covered entities" to comply to the "readily achievable" standard, which must be determined on a case by case basis.

We can help you comply with this complex set of laws, usually for a small fraction of what any potential litigation would cost. Our work is done by qualified professionals who have disabilities. This makes us the best agency to assist you with all your ADA needs.

Please contact us to discuss all of your business ADA needs: for existing facility ADA surveys, new construction plan reviews, providing "reasonable accommodations" for employees, ADA employee training for facility management and staff, and for help in locating ADA products.

Testimonials

"The Town of Andover has been working with Northeast Independent Living for more than ten years. Recently they assisted us updating our ADA compliance transition plan and advised us on how to come up with cost effective solutions.

During the past six years we used them to review design plans on two major new building complexes (Public Safety Center & Middle and Elementary School Complex).

Thanks to their practical understanding of the accessibility codes we were able to identify and resolve a number of problems during and prior to construction. We continue to use them as our key advisors on all of our issues and find their service very responsive, of high quality & reasonably priced."

Joseph R. Piantedosi
Director of Plant & Facilities
Town of Andover

"Northeast Independent Living has been a valuable resource to the Lawrence Public Schools in assisting and compiling reports of each school, allowing the City to make nessary changes to older buidings and preventing costly errors on new school construction projects.

I would recommend Northeast Independent Living for those who require any assistance with the (ADA) American Disabilities Act."

Kevin McCarthy,
Lawrence School Department

For more information call ADA consultants Jim today.

NILP is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant from The City of Lawrence

The Northeast  Independent Living Program, Inc. (NILP) is pleased to announce that we have received a grant from The City of Lawrence as part of a Public Services funding from The U.S. Department of HUD, Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).

The NILP's Access in Motion (AIM) project is providing Accessibility Education and Advocacy training to Consumers with disabilities as part of this year's CDBG services, and ADA planning support to CDBG funded Title II entities that is resulting in greater inclusion for all residents with disabilities.

The ADA Self-Advocacy Training includes topics such as:

• How to provide a reasonable accommodation?
• How to acquire a Sign Language Interpreter?
• What is the Maximum Extent Feasible standard?
• How to promote disability awareness and education about the need for all organizations to adopt appropriate ADA Policies, procedures and diversity practices. Strategy discussions about situations where People have found places that have steps that are barriers? Consumers have encountered program staffwho do not know how to acquire Sign Language Interpreters, and when consumers have visited organizations that do not have disability awareness and education about ADA Policies, procedures and diversity practices?

WE THANK ALL Lawrence RESIDENTS who came to the January 20th training- you have helped make this project a great success!