Program Office: Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
CFDA Number: 84.904A
Program Type: Direct appropriation
Also Known As: HKNC, Helen Keller National Center for Youths and Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind
The center provides services on a national basis to individuals who are deaf-blind, their families, and service
providers through a national headquarters center with a residential training and rehabilitation facility and a
network of 10 regional field offices that provide referral, counseling and transition assistance for individuals who
are deaf-blind, and technical assistance and training for service providers. HKNC uses private funds to provide
seed money to state and private agencies to encourage them to establish or expand programs for individuals who
are deaf-blind. These programs also receive targeted training and technical assistance from the center.
The program provides training and counseling to individual consumers and training and technical assistance to
service providers. The program also supports short-term training for youths in high school, a service project for
elderly deaf-blind persons, a national parent and family services project, and an international internship program
for professionals in the field of deaf-blindness.
