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Resources
Centers for Independent Living
Centers for Independent Living (CIL) are
community-based, non-prot organizations. CILs
provide many services.
Some of these services include:
• Information and Referral: CIL staff helps people
nd resources and services. Examples of this
can include:
• Helping persons who are blind nd adaptive
cooking equipment
• Finding the nearest van rental business that
has wheelchair-modied vans
• Offering information on the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
• Independent Living Skills Training: CIL staff
offers trainings, resources and information
on adaptive equipment. In some cases,
skills training is provided in the home to help
consumers learn how to do new tasks in a
familiar setting. The training topics available will
change as the needs change.
Skills training programs may include such topics
as:
• Independent living philosophy
• Advocacy
• Stress management
• Personal assistance management
• West Virginia legislative process
• Personal development
• Time management
• First aid
• Money management
• Cooking
• Bus riding
• Advocacy: CILs believe people with disabilities
have the ability and responsibility to direct
their own life. Through training and leadership
development, CILs help people with disabilities
learn how to be self-advocates.
• Peer Support: CILs offer peer support and
mentoring to individuals with disabilities. Peer
mentors serve as role models. They share their
own experiences and explain the "ups and
downs" of having a disability.
The CILs also offer the Community Living
Services Program (CLSP). This statewide program
provides independent living services such as:
• HomeModications such as adding a ramp
for wheelchair access to the home; bathroom
modications such as roll-in showers, grab
bars; and other modications to make a home
accessible to a person with a disability.
• Assistive Devices and Equipment includes
items such as hearing aids, amplied telephones
and low vision devices.
• Communication Devices and Services
such as touch screens, speech keyboards and
synthesized speech output devices (used with
computers), as well as training in equipment use,
braille instruction and reading services.
• VehicleModications including van conversion
to accommodate a wheelchair; wheelchair
and scooter lifts; hand controls such as a
spinner knob on the steering wheel to allow
controlled steering with just one hand and other
specialized modications.
• Durable Medical Equipment such as a shower
chair, walker and related items.
For more information or to access these services,
contact one of the CILs in WV.
• Appalachian Center for Independent Living
800-642-3003
• Mountain State Center for Independent Living
866-687-8245
• Northern WV Center for Independent Living
800-834-6408
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