United Cerebral Palsy of New York City is the leading nonprofit agency in New York City, providing direct services, technology and advocacy to children and adults of all ages with cerebral palsy and related disabilities. UCP/NYC was founded in 1946 by a concerned group of New York City parents with children who had cerebral palsy. This was at a time when institutionalization was one of the only service options available to families. Frustrated by the absence of educational, medical and vocational services for their children, they banded together to create awareness and raise funds for their own network of community services. A movement was born that soon took on a national perspective with the founding of United Cerebral Palsy Associations of America in 1948, and later the National Research and Educational Foundation in 1963.