New Avenues to Independence, Inc.                Providing services for individuals with disabilities since 1952.

Broadmoor Summer Program

New Avenues operates the Broadmoor Summer Program in Lake County for 90 children and youth. The program is an integrated program for children ages 3-22. It serves children with special needs as well as typically developing students. The five week program provides individualized instruction with a 4:1 child to teacher ratio. The children are divided by age into preschool, primary, intermediate and advanced groups.

The summer curriculum is divided into five weekly themes and the children participate in art, music, physical education, swimming, computers and weekly special events. In addition to the primary curriculum, students can receive assistance from occupational therapy, physical therapy, music therapy and speech/language therapy.

For additional information, contact Gail at (216) 481-1909 x236 or e-mail gremeika@newavenues.net

Swim, Gym & More Program

New Avenues operates the Swim, Gym & More Program in Lake County for 38 children and youth. The program is an integrated program for children ages 3-22. It serves children with special needs as well as typically developing students. The program operates during the school year on alternating Saturdays.  The Saturday program curriculum includes swimming, arts & crafts, snacks, gym, outdoor play, fine motor, and music activities.

For additional information, contact Gail at (216) 481-1909 x236 or e-mail gremeika@newavenues.net

Through the Adult Day and Senior Programs, adults with mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities are afforded the opportunity to participate in individual and group programming designed to meet the needs, honor personal choice and achieve goals of each participant.  They include an emphasis in the areas of life skills, sensory integration, and work activities and are complemented by the provision of leisure/recreational activities, motor development, aquatics, art and music therapies.  For additional information, contact Thomas M. Lewins at (216) 481-1909 x355 or e-mail tlewins@newavenues.net

Section 8 Mainstream Housing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Program

Through this program, New Avenues continues to address the housing needs of individuals with disabilities. The HUD-funded program, was established to provide rental vouchers to enable persons with disabilities to rent affordable private housing of their choice.

New Avenues’ Mainstream program currently assists up to 75 individuals or families with disabilities in Cuyahoga, Lake, and Ashtabula counties.

In addition to the rental assistance provided through the vouchers, we provide housing search assistance, tenant/landlord mediation, and technical assistance to landlords for making accessibility modifications to units.

New Avenues' Section 8 Mainstream Program's Waiting List is now open. 

PLEASE NOTE: New Avenues has not received additional vouchers.  We are simply adding applicants to our waiting list.  We will only be housing approximately 5-10 individuals and families this year.

To be considered for our program, download the pre-application, complete it and submit it following the instructions.  Applications must be completed, in ink, by the Head of Household. The Head of Household must be an adult (18 years or older) with a disability and the legal capacity to enter into a lease. If a guardian or other adult completes the application for the Head of Household, the Head of Household must sign the application on page 6 verifying the accuracy of the information.

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Mailing Instructions
New Avenues will rank all applications based on preferences and date of postmark. An application must show proof of mailing consisting of one of the following:
(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service Postmark.
(2) A legible mail receipt with the date of mailing stamped by the U.S. Postal Service, indicating what was mailed.
(3) Postage to return the completed application is 1 first class postage stamp.
New Avenues does not accept either of the following as proof of mailing:
(1) A private metered postmark, or
(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the U.S. Postal Service.

Waiting list order is determined by date of postmark on the application received by New Avenues and number of accumulated local preferences based on disability and income. One application per applicant. Duplicates will be discarded; the application with the earliest date will be kept by New Avenues. Applications postmarked the same date with the same local preferences will be ranked based on a lottery process and placed on the wait list accordingly. Applicants will be notified of their rank on the wait list by New Avenues.

PLEASE NOTE: New Avenues has not received additional vouchers.  We are simply adding applicants to our waiting list.  We will only be housing approximately 5-10 individuals and families this year.

For additional information, please call Rick Edwards at (216) 481-1909 x331 or e-mail redwards@newavenues.net

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Revised: December 03, 2007.