LEAP's mission is to be a consumer-driven agency that is committed to ensure a society of equal opportunity for all persons, regardless of disability.

Linking Employment, Abilities and Potential (LEAP) is a 501-c-3 non-profit organization. In existence since 1981, LEAPs purpose is to empower individuals with disabilities in making significant life choices and changes to enhance their employment and independent living opportunities. In keeping with LEAP's philosophy espousing consumer control and advocacy, the majority of the Board and staff are persons with disabilities. LEAPs focus has always been to provide broader support for the independent living and career aspirations of persons with disabilities and to create improved public awareness of their issues, concerns and needs. LEAPs programs and services have been developed by the guiding vision of persons with disabilities for over 25 years.

LEAP provides information, education, training, employment and independent living services to persons with disabilities. Based in Cleveland, our programs and services reach six counties in Northeast Ohio.

Organizationally, we work very hard to achieve recognition for our mission-driven, value based, quality focused, outcome oriented, service delivery. For our staff, however, it is simply about opening the doors to opportunity by eliminating barriers and leveling the playing field. And they know about these things, because the majority of our 50 staff partners are persons with disabilities themselves, who understand the journey from isolation and limitations, to employment and greater independence and control in their lives.

LEAP promotes, expands, protects and seeks to ensure the human rights of individuals with disabilities through the provision of information, education and advocacy, in partnership with other individuals with disabilities. LEAPs Doris Brennan Center, located in our headquarters on West 25th Street, is the centerpiece of how we advance the dignity, equality, self-determination, and expressed choices of individuals with disabilities.