New Horizons Un-Limited

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Our Accomplishments

Advocacy

• Via e-mail our NHU Advocacy Alerts! Newsletters, 650 citizens with disabilities are directly connected to important National and Wisconsin disability-related advocacy action items and legislative opportunities and events as they become current.

• Our Disability Legislation News and Advocacy Alerts! section both National and Wisconsin, and our Advocacy and Legislation Resources Directory receive over 20,000 visits a year.

Access Technology Initiative: Improving Computer Literacy and Access

• Via our NHU Computer Grant Program, over 700 individuals have received refurbished computers since 2004 and continue to receive support and computer equipment as needed or upgraded.

• Over the past 10 years, we have remained in contact with more than 60 percent of our computer recipients, providing ongoing upgraded computers as needed and Help Desk phone and/or hands on technical support to every recipient, as well as, information and support via our bi-annual newsletter, Access Tech Tips, to ensure our clients may use their computers to their maximum potential. We are proud to support our Computer Grant Program recipients in our community with this ongoing commitment.

• Since our program launch, we have Refurbished or Recycled over 5000 computer components extending their useful life and diverting them from landfills which benefits our natural world for future generations.

Employment Access

• Via our NHU Employment Access program we have provided meaningful volunteer hands-on experience and training to dozens of aspiring entry - level Information Technology, Office Administration, and Marketing professionals. Students have come from local colleges, technical schools, universities, and Wisconsin Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) provider, Adonai Employment, to find experience and training.

• We have provided volunteer experience and training in research and writing to dozens of on-line students aspiring to become Research or Writing professionals, as well as those interested in researching more about their disability through our Disability Research Assistant Program.

Access Information Initiative: Improving Access to Information and Support

Information and Referral

Via our NHU website and E-mail requests, we provide Information and Referral on helpful resources to people with disabilities and their families throughout the United States and abroad.

• Our website offers a multitude of Disability Resources, covering such topics as disability, adaptive products and services, accessible arts, housing, employment, education, financial assistance, independent living, community support groups, accessible recreation and sports, research, transportation and safety. This global website receives more than 3 million views from several hundred thousand visitors on an annual basis.

• Our Disabled Veteran Support Resource Directory receives more than 35,000 visits on an annual basis.
• Our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Answers receives over 10,000 visits a year assisting visitors with disabilities, their families and caregivers to find answers and solutions to their questions on various disability topics.

• Our Guides are our NHU Publications of comprehensive self-help articles such as: Prepare for Employment, How to Buy a Home of Your Own for People with Disabilities, Guide for Caregivers of People with Disabilities, Guide on Guardianship and much more.
• Our Library and Research offers Library, Book, Magazine and Media Resources, as well as, Information on Specific Disabilities, Disability Research Resources, Research Tips, and Search Engines.

Support and Inspiration

• We provide information and inspiration, via our quarterly newsletter CommunicAbility, to more than 1500 households throughout the United States. Sign up at: Communicability via E-Mail.

• Via our website more than 10,000 visitors a year review current Disability News and Events and articles on People Making a Difference!
• Via our Share Your Knowledge and Disability Experiences and our NHU Community Forum, we share the personal disability experiences of people with disabilities to lend support and find solutions to common problems, and to let you know "You Are Not Alone!"
• Via our NHU Facebook page and Twitter we connect with hundreds of people with disabilities on current disability personal experiences, inspiration, awareness, advocacy, news and events and much more.
• We provide information and connections to family members of people with disabilities via our Facebook Group It Takes One to Know One: A Family Forum on Disability.

Arts, Culture, Recreation and Respite Initiative

• In 1990, Arthur Miller, founder of New Horizons Un-Limited, became involved with the design of the first accessible camping cabin for people with disabilities for the Wisconsin State Parks at Mirror Lake State Park, Wisconsin Dells. What followed has been two decades of designing and promoting Accessible Camping Cabins in the Wisconsin State Parks, including the concept design plans in 2001 and the last four cabins in the last decade for a total of 8 cabins. The Wisconsin Accessible Camping Cabins are filled to capacity throughout the camping season and more are needed. The opportunity to respite in the outdoors offers family members to bond in ways that may otherwise be more difficult, offers good nature therapy from life’s stresses and helps individuals with disabilities and their families to become reinvigorated, “It gives them hope for tomorrow to begin again!"

• For the whole story and a list of all eight of the Accessible Camping Cabins in the Wisconsin State Parks, ... Read more.
• Via our NHU website we provide thousands of resources on Arts, Culture and Recreation.
• Our Disability Arts Organizations Directory receives over 10,000 visitors each year.
• Via our NHU website we promote the Accessible Camping Cabins in the Wisconsin State Parks and other Accessible Parks and Forests, Outdoor and Wilderness Venues and Overnight Camps throughout the U.S.

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