New Pisgah Community Service Organization - New Pisgah Haven Homes is an independent senior living facility. The facility offers one-bedroom units for rent to singles and married couples. A sliding scale is used to determine the rent.

Consumer Directed Services (CDS) are those services required by a person with a Disability, other than skilled nursing, which enable him or her to live independently in the community by hiring individuals to perform routine tasks of daily living. Typical tasks include getting dressed and undressed, grooming, bathing, bowel and bladder care, meal preparation, eating, and clean-up and household duties.

Independent Living Center (CIL) teaching independent living skills, including money management, using public transportation, being assertive. Services are provided both individually and in group settings.

Provides independent living skills and activities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Also offers support and advocacy for families and to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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.

Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

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.

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.

Provides Center for independent living services for individuals with disabilities, including: - Peer advisory. - Skills training. - System and individual advocacy. - Information and referral. - Support groups. - Housing referral. - Home Modification - Interpreter referral. - Employment preparation. - Personal assistant program. - Pharmaceutical procurement. - Adaptive equipment selection. - Disability awareness training. - Community reintegration from nursing homes. - Youth transition and parent training program. - Free TTYs and amplified phones.

Supportive day and residential services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Independent Living Center offers Independent living skills training, independent living transitional services, peer counseling/support, and advocacy and advocacy training.

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.

Provides information and referral, advocacy, peer support, and skills training.

MERIL is a community-based, non-residential program, designed to promote independent living and to enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities and seniors by empowering them to control and direct their lives and thus participate actively and independently in society.

Provides independent living services to individuals to help increase their independence through time management, utilization of services available, home management and more.

Information and referral, advocacy, peer support, independent living skills training, institution transition, deaf and blind advocacy, home modification, adaptive equipment, service coordination, benefits specialist, attendant care (consumer-directed and agency-directed), youth services, and community education services.

Provides home and community-based supports, programs and services, including advocacy and resources, that allow people with disabilities to choose how and where they live in their community in the least restrictive environment.

Independent Skills Training: Assistance is give to an individual learning or re-learning any aspect of life activities that could increase their independence and control over life. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES (PAS PROGRAM) - This program provides a personal care attendant. Many individuals have been able to avoid unnecessary stays in residential facilities and some have even left residential facilities for the comfort and independence of their own homes.

Advocacy: with other agencies & organizations to meet individual needs Peer Support: Matching clients with similarities for mutual support. Information and Referral: Provides information on services/benefits available to meet needs and referrals to other agencies /organizations.

Offers information and referral, independent living skills training, peer counseling, and individual and systems advocacy, personal assistance, home modifications, recreation services, vocational programs, and assistance in obtaining assistive technology equipment with the objective of helping participants function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment.

Offers a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with severe disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment.