We Offer Four Core Services

Disability Advocacy
On local, state, and federal levels: Legislation and policy changes can have a profound effect on services for the disabled. Our Legislative Action Team members are motivated, organized watch-dogs of political issues affecting people with disabilities.

On an individual level: Advocacy may involve helping consumers speak up to get what they need and deserve.These could involve negotiations with an agency, financial institution, landlord, employer or any person or group affecting the person with a disability.

Independent Living Skills Training
Often having a disability means that many fundamental, day-to-day activities can be quite difficult, requiring patience and training to master. This could apply to functions such as grooming, shopping, cooking, cleaning, balancing a checkbook, or using public transit... just to name a few.

Peer Support
A peer can relate to others who are now in a similar situation. People who themselves have endured the difficulty and stigma that can be part of living with a disability, and can meet with and reinforce each other with confidence and practical strategy.

Information & Referral
A person with a disability may realistically have difficulty keeping track of the many issues, groups, professionals and policies that affect their daily life. Our team of high skilled and widely networked advocates are able to provide valuable insight and advice. We can be helpful when a consumer
uses us to assist in completing required paperwork, so that a governmental agency you are working with will accept it and move it more rapidly through their review process to help get needed services.