EEDA's Day Services seek to improve social and life skills, develop friendships, create community relationships, and promote happy lives for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. EEDA believes that every person has the right to live their best life. We work with each person to help them realize their goals and live as independently as possible in their community.
EEDA has a traditional Day Program in Calverton and in Riverhead that are well-rounded programs that accommodate a wide range of abilities and interest. They focus on building skills in the community.
The PWW Creative Arts Program focuses on building life skills through the creative arts. They produce variety shows and theater productions.
PWW LEEP teaches participants life skills through animal husbandry, gardening, and land stewardship.
PWW East End builds skills through community inclusion and volunteering on the South Fork.
EEDA's Day Services promote social and life skills through community-based activities. Program members learn how to be a good friend and interact with members of their community.
Members of all Day Services are active, contributing members of their communities—they volunteer by reading to children at Southampton Head Start, delivering meals at Island Harvest, creating care baskets at Long Island Lending a Helping Hand, help the veterans at Warrior Ranch, and care for animals at the 4-H camp and a local animal shelter. Program members also attend to a community garden plot where they learn to grow, prune, and harvest fruits and vegetables to make their own salad. Program members also play on a basketball team with other local agencies, take drum classes and theater workshops at East End Arts, support the local parks, practice self-advocacy skills, learn to navigate public transportation, learn new recipes and kitchen skills, receive instruction from a personal trainer who makes fitness fun, go to Adventureland in the summer, and attend local theater productions.