EASTERSEALS WEST ALABAMA
  • Who We Are
    • Board of Directors
    • Junior Board
    • 2022 Year in Review
  • Programs
    • Workforce Development
    • Nurse-Family Partnership
    • Transportation Program
    • Future Promise Youth
    • Parents As Teachers
    • Representative Payee Program
  • Events
    • Hoop Night
    • 2023 Ornament Launch and Jazz Night
  • Volunteer
  • Donate
  • Contact Us
    • ESWA Directory
  • Who We Are
    • Board of Directors
    • Junior Board
    • 2022 Year in Review
  • Programs
    • Workforce Development
    • Nurse-Family Partnership
    • Transportation Program
    • Future Promise Youth
    • Parents As Teachers
    • Representative Payee Program
  • Events
    • Hoop Night
    • 2023 Ornament Launch and Jazz Night
  • Volunteer
  • Donate
  • Contact Us
    • ESWA Directory

Our History: A Continuing Legacy 

Easterseals West Alabama began as the former
​Tuscaloosa Rehabilitation Facility, which opened in 1959
with only four staff members and ten consumers.
Picture
West Alabama Rehabilitation Center's Board of Directors was organized in October 1967, and began planning for a new building and program of services to meet the needs of six counties in West Alabama.  In 1985, the facility became known as West Alabama Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center, and in 1999 the facility again changed its name to Easter Seals West Alabama.

Through all the changes, Easterseals West Alabama has remained true to its mission of serving children and adults with disabilities while maintaining a reputation for quality, comprehensive services.
For 25 consecutive years, the National Health Council has cited Easterseals as the nationwide leader among its member voluntary non-profit healthcare organizations for the percentage of program dollars spent on direct client services.

We are now Easterseals West Alabama with a continued focus on helping people with disabilities live, learn, work, and play. 

Our programs help people in every stage of life from neonatal care to senior citizenship. We serve and help over 1,000 people a year across 10 West Alabama counties earn employment, manage SSI/D benefits, provide transportation, and so much more. 

For more information on how you or someone you love can be helped, please email eswa@eswaweb.org. 
Picture
Ottia Phillips, ​
​Executive Director

​

From Our Executive Director:

With over 10 years of service to Easterseals West Alabama, I am dedicated to the spirit of excellence that we act on for our consumers in order to make profound, positive changes in people's with disabilities lives every day. 

Serving the people in our community with integrity and helping people be self-sufficient members of our society enables people to maintain dignity and creates a new view on people with disabilities.


ALL ABILITIES HAVE LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES.

​Using our voices and actions to carry on this truth is what we do at ESWA. 
​
ESWA Board:
ESWA Board Members - click here

​​​ESWA STAFF:
ESWA STAFF - CLICK HERE
Picture
Picture
Picture
​1400 James I. Harrison, Jr. Pkwy East
​Tuscaloosa, AL 35405
​
205-759-1211
eswa@eswaweb.org


Copyright © 2023 Easterseals West Alabama