empower: abilities

You have the right to live with dignity, with appropriate support in your own home, fully participate in your community, and to make your own life changing decisions. We can help.

Our Mission: to remove barriers and empower independent living for all people with disabilities.

Find Support
Join empower: abilities' many social events, peer support programs or informational gatherings where people with disabilities join together.
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Improve Accessibility
Our staff can evaluate your home’s safety and accessibility barriers and work to keep you safe, independent, and in your own home.
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Stay Independent
We can help you learn new skills or achieve your independent living goals through our one-on-one case management services.

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Get Technology
Our Assistive Technology Demonstration program offers one-on-one support in finding the right device to help you be more independent.  
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empower: abilities serves all persons with disabilities regardless of gender, age, race, sexual orientation, or disability type and offers services to these southwest Missouri counties: Christian, Dallas, Greene, Lawrence, Polk, Stone, Taney, and Webster.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. A disability can be physical, mental, emotional, cognitive or sensory; temporary or permanent.
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Programs and Services

You have the right to live with dignity, with appropriate support in your home, fully participate in your community, and to make your own life changing decisions.

Stay Healthy

Our Home and Community-Based Services programs can help you live safely and stay healthy at home.

Home & Community Based Services

For some, the exact day, minute, and hour can be pinpointed as the moment everything changed. For me, it was more like an hourglass. My hearing slowly deteriorated through the years. Each moment became harder than the next and continued to be this way for the next two decades. I was just a kid when the hourglass was flipped and the countdown towards deafness began.

Emily & Ella
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