NJEDDA

Our Sons and Daughters attend the North Jersey Elks Developmental Disabilities Agency Adult Program in Clifton, New Jersey. The Center is our children’s second family and it’s where our children learn daily living skills, community involvement, receive physical, occupational, speech therapies, nursing services and socialization with their friends, which is so very important to their well-being.

The Center provides service to 45 + adults
Starting at age 21 and over with different developmental disabilities. Each special in their own way. The Center also has to purchase and maintain specialized vans, which they provide transportation to and from their homes and specialized equipment for their care. This year due to the COVID 19 Pandemic, we were almost ready to close the doors on our Adult Children as the pandemic has put a financial burden on NJEDDA to the extent that we were ready to close. If we close that would extremely hurt our Children as there are very few places our adults can attend, and many have waiting lists that are very long.  We don’t want our children, no matter how old or what disabilities they have, to have to sit at home watching tv and not have much socialization.

Therefore we have decided to make a Go Fund Me page to collect funds to help our Center Stay open.  With help from family, friends and anyone reading this that has it in their heart to donate no matter how little, every amount counts, with hopes of keeping our adult children going to their program.  Our children have had so many doors close on them throughout their life, we want to keep this one OPEN!  So, if you can find it in your heart to donate anything at all, words are hard to express how thankful we are, but this truly means the world to all of us.  From all the Parents, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.❤