Our NHU Accomplishments
Celebrating 25 Years of Progress

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 Access Technology Initiative, we work to improve access for people with disabilities to otherwise unaffordable computer technology and training, thereby providing access to information, a means of communication, and many other opportunities, such as improving employment skills.

  • Via our NHU Computer Grant Program, since 2004, hundreds of individuals and their caregiver families in Southeastern Wisconsin and across the state and small non-profit organizations directly involved in computer training and support for those with disabilities have received 1250 refurbished computer workstations and continue to receive support and computer equipment as needed or upgraded. We provide our computer recipients with free training, additional training, and encouragement.

  • We have remained in contact with 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, CommunicAbility, and our NHU Community Forum 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.

  • Our recipients vary from those who are isolated in their homes and depend on their computer to pay their bills, contact their doctor, shop on-line and listen to music, to those who are going back to school to improve their lives with education or re-inventing employment.

  • Since our program launch in 2004, as a Microsoft Registered Refurbisher, NHU prides itself on the fact that we have Refurbished or Recycled over 8000 computer components extending their useful life and diverting them from landfills which benefits our natural world for future generations. We take time to ensure each part, upon the end of its useful life, is disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner.

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 (DVR) 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. We encourage community members to share their solutions to help others facing the same challenges or adventures.

  • Our global website offers over a thousand topic pages of Disability Resources, which receive on an annual basis more than 2 million views from several hundred thousand visitors from 90 countries including the United States. Find topics on 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. General Disability resources on benefits, coping skills, as well as, Specific Disability resources are included.

  • Visit the Disabled Veteran Support Resource Directory which receives more than 35,000 visits on an annual basis, for general information and resources for disabled veterans on Benefits, Education, Financial and Housing / Home Ownership Assistance, Employment Support, including Entrepreneurship / Self Employment, Health Care/Caregiving, Injury Specific Organizations, Homelessness Prevention and Support, Mental Wellness / Support Groups and Personal Experiences.

  • Visit Caregivers Directory for information and resources, links and guides to assist those who are caregivers for people with disabilities. Find information on caregiver training, financial aid, home management, care tips, support groups, respite care, government links, on-line caregiver communities and much more. Within this topic we have gathered information and research, community and on-line organizations and support groups, community and internet resources and outlets to share your knowledge and experiences with others who may be giving care to people with disabilities.

  • Visit the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Answers which 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 650 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!

  • Share Your Knowledge and Disability Experiences 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!"

  • The NHU Community Forum shares disability solutions to common problems, offers an inspirational or helpful Thought for the Month, links to disability events across the U.S. and Wisconsin, and much more.
  • 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.

  • Via our NHU Wordpress Blog we outreach with disability awareness and advocacy articles, provide inspiration and motivating information and resources for coping with disability, and provide an outlet to share personal experiences and solutions via discussions and guest blog posts.

  • Via our NHU Twitter we outreach w/current news and disability assistance and share current ideas and events on disability issues for the common good.

Arts, Culture, Recreation and Respite Initiative

Via our NHU Access Arts, Culture, Recreation and Respite Initiative, we provide individuals with disabilities and their families/caregivers opportunities to experience arts, culture and recreation to enhance their lives and provide respite.
  • 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 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.

  • Via our NHU website we provide thousands of resources on Arts, Culture and Recreation.

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