Disability Accessibility

Office of Equal Opportunity Announces Requests for Proposals for the Handicap Accessibility Awareness Grant Program for FY 2025

Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity is seeking proposals from qualified agencies to improve accessibility and equal opportunity and promote or increase awareness of the rights and ambitions of persons with disabilities through an Awareness Program.

The Handicap Accessibility and Awareness Grant Program will improve accessibility and increase awareness for the approximately 107,000 disabled persons living in Palm Beach County. $30,000 is proposed for funding. The grant program will enable any non-profit (501) (c)(3) status agency within Palm Beach County that provides service to persons with disabilities to apply for funding to improve accessibility and equal opportunity, and/or increase public awareness for persons with disabilities.

The proposals will be reviewed through the Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity and must meet program, application and grant criteria. Deadline for submission is April 13, 2026, by 4 p.m.

Please click here for more information or call (561) 355-4884.

Click here​​ for Application.​​​​​

​The Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity is responsible for the County's Disability Accessibility Awareness program. This program assures that County government and countywide organizations and public facilities maintain compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. OEO enforces the County's Handicapped Parking Program and helps to remedy discrimination against persons with disabilities in housing, access to facilities and services, employment and all other areas of equal access.

In 1992, the Board of County Commissioners enacted an Ordinance, known as the Palm Beach County Physically Disabled Parking Space Ordinance. This Ordinance provides that two-thirds of the fines collected for parking in designated disabled parking spaces shall be used to provide funds to improve accessibility and equal opportunity to qualified physically disabled persons in the County, and to provide funds to conduct public awareness programs concerning physically disabled persons. One-third of the fines are utilized by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department to support its volunteer enforcement program.

Annually, this program awards grants to local non-profit agencies that provide services to persons with disabilities. The grants do not exceed $10,000 per agency and must be utilized to improve accessibility and equal opportunity or to increase public awareness of programs and issues involving physically disabled persons.

Agencies or local non-profits who wish to receive more information regarding the grant application process should contact the Office of Equal Opportunity at: 561-355-4883.

If you have experienced a problem concerning accessibility or believe that you have otherwise been discriminated because of either a physical or mental disability, you should contact OEO for information and assistance.