Fact Sheet

10 facts you probably didn’t know about Easter Seals Central Alabama

• ESCA has been providing services across the life span for nearly fifty years.
• ESCA serves a thirty-five county area including: Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Conecuh, Coosa, Crenshaw, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery and Pike.
• ESCA is a part of a national network of rehab facilities that were ranked 1st over the last 24 years for the highest percentage (94%) spent on direct services.
• ESCA is part of a national network that has become the nation’s leading non-profit provider for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities and other special needs.
• ESCA provides free medical equipment to those in need through our CARE Project.
• ESCA can help with transportation needs through the LINK, a fully coordinated brokered transportation system.
• ESCA Job Placement Specialists put over 150 disabled consumers back to work each year including another 75 consumers who are deaf and hard of hearing through the Janice Capilouto Center for the Deaf.
• ESCA opened a multidisciplinary autism diagnostic clinic in March 2009.
• ESCA offers businesses opportunities to outsource work through our Rotary Work Center saving them money and allowing ESCA to put people with disabilities to work earning a wage.
• 86% of consumers agree that without ample funding, Easter Seals cannot provide high quality services or programs. (Source: Greenfield Online 2001).

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