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"Abilities is a place where people confront their own devastating handicaps and refuse to be devastated."
St. Petersburg Times columnist Jacquin Sanders

The Abilities Foundation supports ServiceSource, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides the following primary services. For more details, click any link.

Job Placement and Vocational Evaluation

Provides career counseling, vocational evaluation, job development, workplace accommodation, and follow-up service to help people obtain and maintain gainful employment.

Affordable Accessible Housing

Uses HUD grants and charitable donations to acquire and renovate single-family homes and condos and primarily makes them available for rent to persons with disabilities, however, limited owenership programs are available in Brevard County. Also facilitates low-interest loans for home improvement and repairs to existing residences. Services include:

Home ownership for low- to moderate-income individuals

Enables families to achieve the ‘American Dream’ of home ownership. New homeowners receive closing costs and down payment assistance. Properties have been renovated for energy efficiency and updated to bring them up to current codes.

Low-interest home improvement loans

Up to $20,000 per household is available for qualified homeowners in Pinellas County to renovate and improve their current residences. Funds can be used for major repairs, cosmetic repairs, landscaping, or accessibility modifications. Interest rates offered by Pinellas County Community Development range from 0-5% depending on income. Very low-income homeowners may qualify for loans deferred until sale. This product allows families to stay where they are, modify for aging or disability—or in increase in family size!

Affordable rentals are available in Pinellas and Brevard Counties in Florida

HUD Section 8 vouchers are welcome on 60 units in Brevard County and 28 units in Pinellas. Units are mainly scattered-site, and many have been modified to accommodate physical disabilities.

Hurricane Hardening Programs

Pinellas County and the State of Florida are offering programs to be used for improvements to lessen storm damage in Pinellas. Most are grants range from $1,000 to $20,000. The programs may be combined or utilized separately.

Property Management is offered in Brevard County

In addition to managing properties owned by HFI and Abilities HUD subsidized units, we currently manage 30 additional units in two complexes and a condo association. Services include maintenance, rental collection, and tenant screening.

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Services

ServiceSource partners with the State of Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to provide core vocational rehabilitation services in three workforce regions. The goal of this program is to expand and improve the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services and employment outcomes through a private-provider system.

Work Incentives Planning and Assistance

Helps people who receive Social Security Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income explore work incentives.

Veterans Employment and Outreach Program

Provides job placement services to disabled veterans who have returned from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and are being served at The Bay Pines VA Healthcare Center and James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa.

The Warrior Bridge Services for Wounded Warriors

The Warrior Bridge is a rapidly emerging national initiative to help disabled servicemen and servicewomen returning form duty in Iraq and Afghanistan successfully reintegrate into civilian life.

Case Management Home and Community Services: The Keys to Independence

ServiceSource provides case management and other key services needed for individuals with disabilities to return and remain as independent as possible and participate in their homes and communities.

Affirmative Employment

Through ServiceSource's government and commercial contracts, individuals with disabilities provide quality services to our customers in supportive, community-based work environments.

Youth Transition Services

The High School/High Tech program provides high school students with all types of disabilities the opportunity to explore jobs and post-secondary education leading to technology-related careers. The Broadened Horizons Brighter Futures program is funded by the Security Administration and is designed to help youths with disabilities in Miami-Dade County who receive Social Security disability benefits gain employment and become self-sufficient citizens.

CARF Accreditation

ServiceSource has received a three-year accreditation—the highest attainable—from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

Abilities Credo

"I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon – if I can. I seek opportunity – not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of Utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done."