Independent Living Skills Development
NWCCI staff will work with you to set a goal for living well in the community and develop an Independent Living Plan for reaching your goal. We pull together the services, resources and tools that are useful for realizing your goals. Independent living skills encompass several essential areas, including:
- Budgeting, bill paying and organizing mail.
- Advertising, interviewing, hiring and training personal care attendants.
- Putting together grocery lists, planning for shopping trips and other daily activities.
- Choosing from among potential service providers and coordinating supports.
- Accessing and learning how to use assistive technology providers.
- Securing benefits, medical care and related services.
- Receiving technical assistance with employment-related skills.
Social Security Benefits Application Assistance
Applying for Social Security Benefits is a complicated, long process. NWCCI offers to assist with submitting a complete application to the Social Security Administration. We can assist with:
· Understanding both the medical and financial qualifications for SSI and SSDI
· Navigating the process from starting the process, to receiving a decision
· Communicating with government agencies to keep the process going.
· Discussing working while applying for benefits and after getting benefits and the changes to the rules.
· Understanding both the medical and financial qualifications for SSI and SSDI
· Navigating the process from starting the process, to receiving a decision
· Communicating with government agencies to keep the process going.
· Discussing working while applying for benefits and after getting benefits and the changes to the rules.
Advocacy
Community Forums: Informational events are facilitated to bridge gaps between service providers and people who use such services, creating dialogue among all parties. Here, service providers come prepared with information about what supports are offered and field questions from those who are interested.
Action Groups: People with disabilities, seniors and agencies/organizations providing community-based services, coming together in a coordinated effort to realize more inclusive, accessible and accommodating opportunities.
Inclusion workshops: NWCCI provides training for businesses, organizations, and individuals through workshops designed to raise awareness and realize more inclusive communities. We believe an inclusive community is a healthy community. We provide information on disability etiquette, reasonable accommodations, services and supports in the community through an interactive, participatory learning process.
Americans with Disabilities Act (‘ADA’) Technical Assistance: NWCCI works with businesses, organizations and government agencies to develop an ADA transition plan for becoming more inclusive, accessible and accommodating. We work with you to come into compliance with ADA requirements in a way that is reasonable and does not incur undue financial or administrative burden. In the process NWCCI provides an assessment and works with you to access tax incentives and other resources to achieve the steps laid out in an ADA transition plan.
Action Groups: People with disabilities, seniors and agencies/organizations providing community-based services, coming together in a coordinated effort to realize more inclusive, accessible and accommodating opportunities.
Inclusion workshops: NWCCI provides training for businesses, organizations, and individuals through workshops designed to raise awareness and realize more inclusive communities. We believe an inclusive community is a healthy community. We provide information on disability etiquette, reasonable accommodations, services and supports in the community through an interactive, participatory learning process.
Americans with Disabilities Act (‘ADA’) Technical Assistance: NWCCI works with businesses, organizations and government agencies to develop an ADA transition plan for becoming more inclusive, accessible and accommodating. We work with you to come into compliance with ADA requirements in a way that is reasonable and does not incur undue financial or administrative burden. In the process NWCCI provides an assessment and works with you to access tax incentives and other resources to achieve the steps laid out in an ADA transition plan.
Peer Support
We invite you to join with us to share in experience, strength, and hope in the various peer support opportunities that NWCCI hosts.
Peer Support Groups: People with disabilities and seniors come together in mutual support of our interests, participating in recreational and life-skill focused groups. Visit Peer Group for more information.
Individual Peer Support: As any certified Center for Independent Living, the majority of our staff and board of directors are comprised of people with permanent and significant disabilities. We enjoy the distinct advantage of personal understanding. We avoid fostering dependency and naturally shun entitlement by virtue of experience.
Peer Support Groups: People with disabilities and seniors come together in mutual support of our interests, participating in recreational and life-skill focused groups. Visit Peer Group for more information.
Individual Peer Support: As any certified Center for Independent Living, the majority of our staff and board of directors are comprised of people with permanent and significant disabilities. We enjoy the distinct advantage of personal understanding. We avoid fostering dependency and naturally shun entitlement by virtue of experience.
