Ability360

Ability360 Headquarters Location

Phoenix, AZ

About Ability360
Ability360 continues a 40-year tradition of offering and promoting programs to empower people with all disabilities to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve or continue independent lifestyles within the community.
About Us
Ability360 is a Center for Independent Living

A Center for Independent Living, otherwise known as a CIL, is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization run by people with disabilities, for people with disabilities to address needs and barriers within the community. Ability360 is located in Phoenix, Arizona and provides services throughout the state of Arizona.

Home Care Services

Ability360 provides personal care attendants to assist people of all ages with all types of disabilities in their lives. Typical services are non-medical and assistance with daily living. Home Care Services enable people with disabilities to participate in activities at home, at work, and in the community.

Sports & Fitness

The Sports & Fitness Center is one of only a handful of centers in the U.S. that is specifically designed for individuals with disabilities, and the only center of its kind in the Western United States. The center provides health, fitness and recreation programs to military veterans, individuals with disabilities and their families, and also serves as a venue for local, national and international adaptive sporting events.
Equal Opportunity
Ability360 will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that ABIL take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

Further, Ability360 will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of sexual preference, or any other protected status under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination and Employment Act, State Executive Order No. 75-5, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Mission & Principles
Mission Statement

Ability360 offers and promotes programs designed to empower people with disabilities to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve or continue independent lifestyles within the community.

Ability360 is one of five Centers for Independent Living in Arizona, and the largest Center in the state. Ability360 advocates personal responsibility – by, and for, people with disabilities – as a means to independence. Programs are designed to help consumers achieve self-sufficiency. In addition to the five core service areas, Ability360 provides and promotes numerous other programs and services that help consumers achieve an independent lifestyle.

Principles

• We promote and value equal opportunity, full integration and consumer choice

• We promote the achievement of full rights and empowerment of all persons with disabilities.

• We promote the full participation of people with disabilities in the cultural, social, recreational and economic life of the community.

• We promote consumer choice/control – the individual’s right to make informed decisions regarding his or her best interests in all aspects of life.

• We promote the involvement of people with disabilities in the decision-making process of community programs and services.
Incentive / Assistance
• Social Security Disability Work Incentive Planning & Assistance
• Work and Disability Benefits

If you are receiving Social Security Disability benefits and have a specific work goal, are working or have a job offer, we can help you understand how earned income will affect your cash, medical and other benefits. We can inform you about work incentives that can ease your transition to work and help you understand and navigate Social Security related work rules. Our Certified Community Work Incentives Coordinators have knowledge of Social Security, Medicare, AHCCCS and other government programs. We can show you how work pays!

• Work is the key to financial empowerment!
• WORK INCENTIVES PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE (WIPA) SERVICES

This service can assist and support your employment choices with information that can help you achieve your goals.

The Social Security Administration (Social Security) has created a variety of work incentives that make it easier to go to work for people who receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

The Benefits 2 Work Arizona program, managed by Ability360, can help you understand the Social Security Work Incentives and how to use them to increase your income through work. We are Centers for Independent Living providing advocacy and services by and for people with disabilities. We can help you make the transition to work with a disability easier.

• IF YOU CHOOSE TO WORK

- There are SSDI and SSI incentives that may help you retain Medicare and Medicaid.
- You may be able to get back on cash benefits if you need to without re-applying
- SSDI beneficiaries can work for a while before cash benefits stop.
- SSI recipients always earn more working
- Students under the age of 22 can gain work experience without affecting their SSI check

Number of Employees in Ability360

1,001 to 5,000

Ability360 Revenue

$25M to $100M (USD)