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Offers independent living skills instructions focuses on individualized opportunities that are especially suited to each participant. Special needs training and activities focus on daily living skills.

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment

Provides informational and educational programming targeted toward a consumer or a group of consumers with the intent to develop or increase the skills, knowledge and/or abilities required to live, work and play in the community.

Programs offered include self-advocacy and awareness, life skills training, braille training, TTY training, personal assistant information, interpreter referrals and equipment demonstration and loan.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Information
Braille Instruction
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Offers rehabilitation services to those with mental illness and intellectual disabilities. Services are designed to help clients overcome barriers and acquire or relearn skills to help them live independently in the community through occupational therapy services. Services include, but are not limited to, learning about money management, paying bills, cleaning and house maintenance, self-advocacy and self-care.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Occupational Therapy
Instructions and opportunities to develop skills in the areas of daily living, independence, communication, interpersonal relations, utilization of community resources, recreation and leisure activities, and personal care. Physical therapy maintenance program is available to program participants on doctor's prescription.
HCBS (HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES) programs provide training and support to people living in shared homes in the community with opportunities for learning skills to help develop independence.(Pella/Knoxville and Indianola/Des Moines regions).

SCL (SUPPORTED COMMUNITY LIVING) program is for those people who just need someone to "drop-in" to assist them with various things. Individuals in this program can live with their families, or they can live in their own home or apartment. A Living Skills Advisor will schedule time to meet with them every week to assist them with needed tasks - budgeting, cooking, cleaning, shopping, appointments, social skills, and problem solving.

SPIRITUAL SERVICES are available to all clients.

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Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment

Offers classes designed to address the many unique challenges that young adults face during the transition to independence, to make the transition to independence successful and foster self-sufficiency by providing valuable resources and teaching the necessary skills.

Classes are presented by members of the community and are offered on a wide range of topics.

Community-based services and support to persons of all ages with developmental disabilities. Services includes Vocational training and employment services.

Adult leisure and recreational center for individuals who have reached retirement age. Clients are served through an alternative day program that emphasizes recreation, leisure, and maintenance of daily living skills. Alternative day services are also available for other adults whose needs do not include vocational or employment goals.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment

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

Helps adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities develop and enhance daily adaptive living skills and economic self-sufficiency through out-of-home training designed to foster appropriate behavior, greater independence, and personal choice.

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Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Offers a variety of home based services dependent on individual personalized plans and needs. Available home based services include:

- Staff assistance with teaching various daily living skills.

- Transportation to medical appointments and other community resources.

- Accessing recreational opportunities in the community.

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Disability Related Transportation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Independent Living Skills Instruction provided for clients with intellectual disabilities.
RISE provides independent living skills training and supervision services for individuals of all ages with developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, brain injury, or mental illness.
Provides person-centered services directed toward Supported Community Living and self-advocacy training. Training in independent living skills: self-care, social skills, home maintenance/ housekeeping, and community access for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and chronic mental illness.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
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

Provides individualized programming for adults with developmental, physical, and medical disabilities. Offers the following services:
- Developing social skills and other everyday skills
- Various kinds of therapy
- Activities of daily living
- Pre-vocational and vocational skills training
- Communication development
- Community/vocational outings.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Assist youth with disabilities in transitioning from high school to adult life including preparing for employment, higher education, independent living skills training, money management, benefit assistance, and transportation training.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment
Provide individuals with disabilities an adult developmental program to develop, maintain, and increase their personal capabilities.
Independent living and employment skills to the developmentally disabled.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
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 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

Community-based services and support to persons of all ages with developmental disabilities.

Residential program includes staffed group homes for youth and adults, supervised apartments, and independent living arrangements in Alliance, Chadron, and Hay Springs.

Vocational training and employment services through a supervised workshop, Niobrara Enterprises, includes on-site contract work, work stations in industry, supervised employment programs, and job coaching.

Year-round educational program is available to children through contractual arrangements with the school district.

Adult leisure and recreational center for individuals who have reached retirement age. Clients are served through an alternative day program that emphasizes recreation, leisure, and maintenance of daily living skills. Alternative day services are also available for other adults whose needs do not include vocational or employment goals.

Play It Again Sam Thrift Store, 427 Illinois St, work training site.

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Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Supported Employment
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

A program designed to provide community-based services that will meet the needs of individuals with brain injuries and help prevent unnecessary institutionalization.

Services include:

-- Assistive equipment and devices.

-- Home remodeling to ensure safe independent functioning.

-- Independent living skills training.

-- Personal assistant service referrals.

-- Personal assistant management training.

-- Case management, advocacy, and peer support.

-- Neuropsychological assessments.

-- Homemaker services.

-- Home health.

-- Specialized therapies.

-- Home delivered meals.

-- Adult day care.

-- Day habilitation.

-- Behavioral counseling services.

-- Supported employment.

-- Pre-vocational services.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Case/Care Management
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups