Organization Details:

To help individuals with disabilities to become as independent as possible in society.

Description and/or History:
Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated offers a referral service to a wide variety of individuals with special needs. The individuals who will benefit from the referral service offered by Helping Hand Initiative Incorporated include but not limited to infants, children, teens, adults and senior citizens with special needs. The referral service offered by Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated helps find resources that fit the individual needs of each client. Once the proper resources are located for an individual, an advisory service will be offered to each individual based upon their needs.

Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated’s advisory service will help individuals prepare applications that will help them become as independent as possible in society. Individuals will be assisted with applications such as insurance, Social Security Benefits and hospital applications. Assistance with obtaining mobility devices such as wheelchairs and walkers will also be provided. Follow-ups with both the clients and individual organizations will be completed to be sure satisfaction is achieved.
Staff working for Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated will travel within the New York City Area to help individuals obtain services needed to gain independence. Travel includes but not limited to meeting clients of Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated at Social Security Administration to file for benefits and at a medical office to help fill out paperwork for medical services.

What makes the referral service and the advisory service of Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated unique is the customized service that each client would receive starting with initial needs of the individual, then researching the information needed to help individuals fulfill their goals and the assistance provided by the staff at Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated to fill out and file the proper documentation so the needs of client’s associated with Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated are met. There is no fee charged to the client’s of Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated but donations would be greatly appreciated. We trust that you will be pleased that your contributions will help in great measure to make Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated a success and a value to the community.

Helping Hands Initiative Incorporated was started in April 2005 by Julianna Farella. The organization was started because Ms. Farella is disabled and in a wheelchair because of Multiple Sclerosis. She started the organization because she struggled to find the resources she needed to become as independent as possible and did not want others to have to experience the same frustration.

Contact person: Julianna Farella, President, (718) 356-4737, (email)

Address:

10A Pratt Court Staten Island, NY 10312 (See a map)