Our vision is to enable individuals with disabilities to live full and independent lives within the community.

Enable, Inc. is an agency devoted to supporting individuals with disabilities to live full and independent lives. Enable promotes individual choice that reflects what is meaningful to each person served and his or her family. It provides services, supports, programs, and living arrangements that facilitate full inclusion into community life. These include group homes, in-home services, and services that provide relief for caregivers.

Enable affirms these values

Enable began as an affiliate of United Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey in 1989. In order to serve individuals who had disabilities other than cerebral palsy, and to expand into a greater geographic area, the agency become an independent, non-profit agency in 1994 with the new name of Enable. Enable then began to develop programs for persons and their families with cognitive and/or physical disabilities. Enable has grown through the years and now offers a variety of community based programs that promote inclusion, independence, safety and an improved quality of life for individuals with disabilities in our communities.

Enable is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), registered, tax-exempt organization. If you need our federal ID tax exempt number, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Enable is governed by an active Board of Trustees. In FY2010-2011, its officers are:

The agency is headed by Executive Director Sharon J.B. Copeland, MSW, LSW, and Assistant Executive Director Mary Burke.

Enable provides services in the State of New Jersey. We primarily serve the central New Jersey area which includes the counties of Mercer, Monmouth, Middlesex, Somerset and Hunterdon. Our administrative headquarters are in Mercer County. (See Contact Us for email, address, and directions.)

Enable assists persons who have permanent or chronic disabilities. The disability may be physical or cognitive and it causes difficulties with communication, self-care, mobility or the ability to live independently.

There are no age restrictions for services. We support individuals of all ages. However, some services have restrictions because of the type of funding received to support the service. Since we receive funds from the New Jersey Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD), some services are limited to persons eligible for DDD services. For DDD, the physical or mental impairment must be apparent before age 22 and be lifelong. This includes conditions such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, spina bifida, autism and other neurological impairments.

Special funding through the United Way of Greater Mercer County particularly allows Enable to assist persons who are elderly and those whose disability may be the result of an injury or of a medical condition such as multiple sclerosis, stroke or other debilitating illness.

Enable does not provider service to persons whose primary disability is mental illness or substance abuse

Enable’s primary source of funds are through the NJ Department of Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities. We also receive grants and awards from organizations and foundations, conduct fund raising on a regular basis, and we accept independent fees for services.