Social Services: People with Disabilities
Local resources for people with disabilities.
For questions that can be answered
with short, factual responses.
General Assistance
- 211 Dial 211 Cell phone and pay phone users, dial 866-561-2500; Hearing impaired, dial 711 for Michigan Relay or go to 211
- Michigan Helping Hand This site helps Michigan citizens facing economic hardship find the services they need.
People with Disabilities
General Services for the Disabled
- Disability Specific Organizations
- Capital Area Center for Independent Living 517.241.0393
- Michigan Commission on Disability Concerns 517.335-6004
- Michigan Disability Rights Coalition 517.333.2477
- Michigan Protection and Advocacy 517.487.1755
- Michigan Rehabilitation Services 517.241.5122
- Michigan Secretary of State-Disability License Plates 888.767.6424
- Peckham 517.316.4000
- Spec Tran (complementary, A.D.A.-compliant transit services for eligible persons ) 517.394.1000
- Tech 2000 - Michigan's Assistive Technology Program 517.333.2477
Blindness
- Michigan Commission for the Blind 800.292.4200
- National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
- Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped- Library of Michigan 517.373.5614
- WKAR Radio Reading Service 517.432.3120 ext 346
Deafness
- Free Relay Calls for the Deaf
- Michigan
Association for Deaf and Hard of Hearing 517.487.0066
(Voice/TTY)
