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Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

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Disease/Disability Registries
Peer to Peer Networking
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Driving Evaluation
Driver Training

Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Centers for Independent Living
Specialized Information and Referral
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disease/Disability Registries
Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Categories

Disease/Disability Registries
Peer to Peer Networking
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Driving Evaluation
Driver Training
Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Advocacy and services for persons with all types of disabilities including skills training, peer counseling, information and referral, and technical assistance about the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Blind Services works with individuals one-on-one to instruct persons who have lost (or are losing) their vision, on how to read Braille and organize their household and travel. Produces and replicates Braille materials. Translates materials such as menus and brochures into Braille and produces multiple copies as a service to the community. (There is a normal cost per Braille page produced, plus $25 per hour for formatting.)

Captioning at Real Time (CART) provides the translation of spoken words into text using a stenotype machine operated by a stenographer/reporter. Real-time software is used to display the text onto a computer monitor, and a projector or other device is used to display the text on a television or larger screen. CART is especially valuable in large meetings or in communications with a person who is deaf or has hearing loss. CART can be utilized in following settings: community events and workshops, government, legal, educational, medical, theater and auditorium, and captioning of movies and videos.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services provides one-on-one services for independent living skills training, information and referral, advocacy, and peer counseling. Serves as a TTY Distribution site for ITAC (Illinois Telecommunications Access Commission), which provides free TTY devices to Illinois residents. Distributes applications for Iowa TTY distributions for Iowa residents who are qualified (speech impaired or hard of hearing). Distributes amplified phones for residents of Illinois of all ages who have a difficult time hearing on the phone.

Provide information and resources on low-tech independent living devices such as magnifiers, talking watches, etc., when funding is available.

Housing assistance provides information and problem-solving assistance with locating and securing affordable, accessible housing, including research into public and private-sector housing markets.

Information and Referral service provides information through Illinois/Iowa Center for Independent Living's system and library. Requests for information can be made by phone, mail, or in person, and can include loans of library materials.

Outreach services offers presentations, brochures, media releases, public service announcements, media interviews, and video programs to inform the public of programs and services offered.

Volunteers are utilized in programs, services, and office operations; volunteers receive training and supervision appropriate to their duties.

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Braille Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Braille Transcription
Disability Rights Groups
Assistive Technology Equipment
ADA Implementation Assistance
Centers for Independent Living
Disease/Disability Registries

Services which enable persons with disabilities to acquire the skills necessary for independent living.

Barrier Removal and Information Center offers consultations to consumers, builders, businesses and organizations to increase accessibility within the home and community. Modifications to homes include redesigning living areas, and installing outside ramps and grab bars. In addition, grant assistance is offered to income- and geographically-eligible persons with disabilities.

Center for Independent Living services include information and referral, independent living skills training, financial benefits counseling, and awareness training for the general public and organizations regarding disability issues. In addition, the Center assists clients in the development and implementation of independent living plans in the following areas: home and financial management; social skills; sexuality; consumer and legal rights; peer counseling; equipment loan, repair and rental; and individual and systems advocacy.

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Disability Rights Groups
Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Specialized Information and Referral
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Disease/Disability Registries
Centers for Independent Living
Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living

Programs that offer a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include:

-- Information and referral services.

-- Referrals for attendant care.

-- Attendant recruitment and training programs.

-- Independent living skills training.

-- Assistance in meeting housing and transportation needs.

-- Peer counseling.

-- Individual and community advocacy.

-- Transition from institutions into the community.

-- Deflection from institutional placement.

-- Transition from youth to adult services.

-- Advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

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Centers for Independent Living
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Offers programs and services to help individuals with disabilities live independently. Services include: independent living skills training, peer support, advocacy, information and referral services, and more.

Residential services include Traditional Group Homes, Community Support Program, and Supported Community Living Services.

Traditional Group Home offers training in self-help skills, household management and leisure-time skills. These programs integrate people into the community in the least restrictive environment. All individuals are encouraged to have an outside activity. Group home sites are in Red Oak, Malvern, and Shenandoah.

Community Support Program teaches independent living skills to persons living in their own apartment or home. Individuals receive additional support services as needed such as transportation, personal shopping, meal planning, socialization, self-help skills, household management skills, and money management.

Supported Community Living Program provides up to 24 hours of support to assist individuals with their daily needs.

Respite Care Program provides short-term relief in the absence of the family or caregiver, such as a vacation or a night out.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Centers for Independent Living
Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Disability Related Transportation
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Programs that offer a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include: information and referral, skills training, case management, and peer counseling.

Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living

Resource center focused on supporting individuals with disabilities in achieving independent living within their communities.

Offers programs and services to help individuals with disabilities live independently. Services include: independent living skills training, peer support, advocacy, information and referral services, and more.

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Employment
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Representative Payee Services
Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living

Provides disability services, including intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, daily and hourly home-based habilitation and support community living, day habilitation, and supported employment.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Categories

Disease/Disability Registries
Peer to Peer Networking
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Driving Evaluation
Driver Training

Programs that offer a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include: information and referral, skills training, case management, and peer counseling.

Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

Categories

Centers for Independent Living
Specialized Information and Referral
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disease/Disability Registries

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Employment
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Representative Payee Services
Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Categories

Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living