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Access Living is the Center for Independent Living that operates within the City of Chicago. The company is a local private and non-profit center for people living with disability. Access Living has a disability consumer controlled, and cross disability set up. The company engages in advocacy at the local, national, and international level. It also works with policy makers to ensure that people living with disability are considered in policy discussions.
The organization engages in advocacy to help people living with disability. One of the main aims of advocacy is the creation of a positive and inclusive education environment in public school settings to help people living with disabilities. The group engages in campaigns to recommend policy makers and government to invest in programs that enhance accessibility in schools for people living with disability. The organization also fosters awareness of disability initiatives to caregivers and schools. The awareness addresses issues such as the availability latest accessibility and assistive technologies that can be enacted in special education programs. Overall, the organization is committed to help education agencies improve service delivery to people living with disability.
The disability advocacy organization also links people living with disabilities to services that help them access education effectively. One of the main missions reported by the administrator of Access Living encompasses initiatives to enhance the economic security of learners with disability. According to the administrator, the disability advocacy organization connects students and families to grant programs that offer support to people living with disability. The advocacy group also works with educators to make sure teens in public school setting transition smoothly to college.
Access Living consists of various publications that provide important information for helping people who live with disabilities. The publications cover topics such as quality care training to help educators in public schools effectively attend to learners with disability. The publication also covers wellness strategies that further enhance the know-how of educators who attend to learners with disability in public school settings. The administrator further reported a number of essential publications that focus on the rights of people who have intellectual and development disabilities. It was also evident from the institution’s website the large number of publications focused on techniques to assist people living with disabilities in public institutions. The website also shows the cultural responsiveness for effective assistance to public schools by making information available in various languages including the native American languages. The public schools also benefit from the information that helps install features that improve sustainability.
Some of the activities done by the organizations include advocacy, training, research, and public education. Access Living engages in advocacy through holding vigils and demonstrating against abusive and unethical acts against people living with disability. Advocacy also includes letter writing campaigns that involve the organization’s 2 million volunteers. The letter writing addresses arising issues in public schools, and other settings that involve people living with disability, and targets policy makers and others in positions of power. The administrator also informs on the extent of research activities done by the organization that focus on improving the experience of learners living with disability.
Professional groups and referral agencies work in liaison with Access Living to identify, assess, and offer services to people who live with disabilities. One of the groups is the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD). The international organization is dedicated to ensure that people who live with disabilities are included in all the aspects of life. The organization also helps Access Living connect its subjects to grant programs. Other organizations involved include Amnesty organization that facilitates access to resources that enhance inclusion of those living with disability, and present issues affecting people with disabilities at the local level to international organizations.