St Peter's Residence

Highland Valley serves older adults and their families through collaboration, education, advocacy and a range of programs designed to support them where they live.

The Family & Child Service of Schenectady is a nonprofit agency offers respite care and rehabilitative services for children with disabilities. Founded in 1930 as the Family Welfare Bureau, the agency provides adolescent pregnancy prevention programs and anger management group counseling solutions. It also offers individual counseling, Medicaid service coordination and traumatic brain injury treatment services. The Family & Child Service of Schenectady provides a family support services program for the families of children with developmental disabilities. It offers a family reimbursement grant program that distributes state and county funds to families for the purchase of adaptive equipment. The agency provides a homemaker program for senior citizens. It works in partnerships with various schools, churches and nonprofit institutions. In addition, the agency operates the Family Foundation of Schenectady.

Triform Camphill Community, located in Hudson, N.Y., is a residential and vocational training community for young adults with developmental disabilities. Its facilities include more than six residential houses, a barn with dairy, farm maintenance shop, bakery, crafts workshop, community center with an auditorium and classrooms, weaving room and therapy center. It offers subjects, such as literature, math, history, geography, science and arts. It also organizes workshops in areas, including farming, estate management, gardening, baking, home economics and weaving, and offers job placements for its students. It offers a variety of recreational activities, including plays and pageantry. It also organizes events, such as hiking, shopping trips, roller skating, picnics, weekly outings to museums, scenic or historic sites, craft fairs, concerts and movies.