The Latest at INCLUDEnyc

INCLUDEnyc launches new, multilingual online community and digital home for over a million young people with disabilities, their families, and professionals.

INCLUDEnyc will host a free virtual special education town hall with Senators Shelley B. Mayer and John Liu.

INCLUDEnyc will now work with young people with disabilities across 11 Northeast states, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

INCLUDEnyc’s Policy Director Lori Podvesker is a former special education teacher, parent, and advocate for young people with disabilities.

INCLUDEnyc received a $125,000 leadership grant from The New York Community Trust to serve Spanish-speaking youth with disabilities and their families citywide.

INCLUDEnyc calls on the City to not further delay delievery of Special Education Recovery services and to communicate with families the status of transportation…

Take action now or students with disabilities will unjustly struggle with inadequate literacy skills, unemployment, incarceration, and homelessness.

INCLUDEnyc advocates for a budget that provides quality education, meaningful inclusion, and employment for young people with disabilities.

INCLUDEnyc calls for an end to the chronic physical and programmatic segregation of over 220,000 students with disabilities.

INCLUDEnyc’s Steffany Ruiz’s journey in becoming a psychologist and how her being the eldest daughter of undocumented parents is the reason she’s an INCLUDEr.

Rosa, a Project Possibility program participant, chooses to sign language and Deaf culture over an implant.

Rachel Demalderis, a high school teacher, shares how INCLUDEnyc has helped her support students with disabilities and their families.

INCLUDEnyc intern Catherine McGuire shares how her life has been irrevocably changed by her sister and friend, Annie.