Upstate Cerebral Palsy

Upstate Cerebral Palsy provides innovative programs and services that support people and create opportunities to fulfill life choices. The agency was founded in 1950 as the United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Utica Area, Inc., by a group of parents and grandparents of children with cerebral palsy who wanted to ensure that their children would have every opportunity for success regardless of their abilities. The agency has become a comprehensive community services agency serving children and adults who exhibit some level of developmental, intellectual or emotional disability.

During the sumer of 2007, Cara Delaney, '08, developed and implemented a survey in the organization's four county service delivery area to identify the family support needs of families in Madison, Oneida, Herkimer and Lewis counties. The collected data will help UCP maximize their limited funding resources by planning for future services according to the priorities identified by families.