Acces-VR / Adult Career and Continuing Education Services
Reviews and Complaints

These people helped me get a job, but for some reason are fumbling their feet when helping my roommate. Something about everyone leaving because they're having babies. Very annoying every time we get a new person theyre like "teehee sowwy Ur gonna get somewan new bec im leeving!1! :333" and then no one interacts with us for weeks or months. I grown to despise these people. If you're going to have a family, do the world a favor and don't even bother trying to be someone's social worker or whatever the heck they're supposed to be. You're a waste of space in this specific field of work.

My counselor at Acces vr is abusive in her position to assist people with disabilities. My main disability is anxiety and she was impatient explaining the procedural process, did an inadequate job explaining the process, and didn’t listen to my concerns, my social work team and the woman she assigned to assess me agreed that there was something wrong. I found a great job training program and was excited and she went on a seven week vacation without approving it or letting me know or passing my case to someone else. She then asked for paperwork that could have been requested upfront and didn’t tell me how to get it. I did get the Medicaid award letter through my own investigation but she didn’t want to accept it, her supervisor did. By this time my family could no longer support me and the program date passed only to start again in July and I can’t afford to wait so long. She hung up on me while I was talking on our only brief phone call in 6 months, maybe 10 minutes. I told her through email it made me uncomfortable that she calls organizations that help people with disabilities “vendors” and she sent a long email back using the word “vendor” for such organizations in every sentence, very pointedly. I don’t appreciate that she is commodifying disability and being very aggressive about it. I’ve requested another counselor but am not able to get one and she is hurting my attempts to find work by deliberately slowing process and exacerbating my anxiety that I am not at all supported by them.

I have applied to access vr Utica New York office for self employment as I have a running business and need help to continue my self employment financial resources. This business was turned over to me by my niece

Since applying for self employment for (4) months ago. I have been strategically placed in a position so as to not get the help needed as is granted by access vr self employment services. I would like for someone to intervene on my behalf to insure that I get the aid available to me by access vr here in Utica New York.

Thank you very much in advance

I was working with the Johnstown/Gloversville, NY office, and have been slowly working my way through college. Ever since Don Bishop became my counselor/advisor, I received no help from ACCES-VR. He, also, told me that he/they wouldn't help me finish a degree in business, rather he told me to take the general associate's degree. I am intelligent enough to get a bachelor's degree, like my brother and my sister. Don Bishop kept saying, "Chris...no more training, " and "How many semesters have you been at college, now?" He was demeaning and makes me very angry at an organization that is supposed to help disabled individuals.

Good afternoon,
Has my transportation been cut? I haven't received any transportation funds for nearly 2 months.
I send several email to my counselor, She never answer my email .this offices (Bronx ) is not helping .

To:
counselor
janis.chapin@nysed.gov
Director
Ann.Huff@nysed.gov

1st email
Feb 20 at 9:20 PM
Dear Access VR,

Did you receive the fax with the documents? In the future can you please send me confirmation when you've received or not received documentation

2nd email
Has my transportation been cut? I haven't received any transportation funds for nearly 2 months.

Please help me!
Bryan Xamir Peña Rodriguez

ACCESS VR BRONX OFFICE:
Address: 1215 Zerega Ave, Bronx, NY 10462
Phone: (718) 931-3500

Ann.Huff, Director

The Bronx N Y office has paid for me to start a Paralegal Certificate course at Hunter College, and they were supplying the carfare as promised until they changed my case manager. they have repeatedly asked me to supply information on my course when they have in my file.

The school has sent them the information they requested and they say the carfare would be reinstated and I would be reimbursed. They would then ask for the very same information again, and they would repeat this cycle over and over again, I am not able to start my new classes because of this nonsense, can you help me?

Thank you!

Darryel Gordon
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I applied to this place to help me with job training and a job for my disabilities
And the worker that I was assigned to never answers her phone I would leave her messages on her voice mail and I still won't hear from her so I have to keep going to the office to talk to her. I completed the training at the school I choose and now I need assistance on how to find a job.