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December 2019
Financial Literacy Workshop
Interested in mastering your money? Attend Access Living's Financial Literacy Workshop. No registration is required. To attend, simply walk in to Access Living. Contact the Independent Living Skills Coordinator for additional information or to make an accommodation request.
Find out more »Step Ahead – Peer Support Group Meeting
Step Ahead is an Access Living program and peer support group for people with disabilities who are living independently in the community. It aims to support people with disabilities who have already transitioned out of nursing homes as they further develop their independent living skills. Participation is open to all. **Please contact the Independent Living Skills Trainer in advance to meeting dates, as some meetings take place at various locations in the community. **
Find out more »PA Training @Access Living
Personal Assistant training sessions are open to family members of people with disabilities as well as members of the public who wish to become a personal assistant. An RSVP is required to attend this or any other PA training session. To RSVP, please contact a PA Training Coordinator. Please bring the following items to your training session: 1. Photo ID (Driver’s License or State ID)2. Social Security Card3. Resume and three professional references4. Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate (if applicable) Learn…
Find out more »Independent Voices
Independent Voices is one of Access Living’s community advocacy groups. Its members are nursing home survivors as well as folks living in nursing homes who want to move out. Members convene to build community and cultivate activism in current nursing home residents.
Find out more »Annual Meeting
Join Access Living leadership, consumers, allies, and board members for our 2019 Annual Meeting where we discuss our accomplishments and our goals for the year ahead. RSVP or make accommodation requests to Brenna McCauley by Monday, December 2nd.
Find out more »Cross Disability Support Group
Access Living’s Cross-Disability Support Group (CDSG) is for people with all kinds of disabilities to teach and learn from one another. To attend, or to make an accommodation request, call or email the contact person listed below. CDSG Meeting Topics: Tuesday, 10/8: Group Outing, Lunch and Movie Tuesday, 10/22: Disability in the Workplace Tuesday, 11/5: Emotional Health vs. Mental Health - What's the difference? Tuesday, 11/12: Coping with Depression Around the Holidays - Guest Speaker Simon Applyrs Tuesday 11/26: Topic…
Find out more »Cambiando Vidas Meeting
Cambiando Vidas meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month, and provides a critical space for immigrants with disabilities to come together, organize, and effect change. Learn more about Cambiando Vidas. Cambiando Vidas meetings are conducted in Spanish. Interpreters are provided.
Find out more »Adult Dance Class
Each week we'll explore new tenets of making inclusive dance, such as choreographic tools, improvisation, and technique, culminating in a performance on December 14th, 2019. Adults (18+) of all abilities and experience levels are encouraged to attend. Attendance at every session is encouraged, but not required. To request an accommodation, please email Sydney Erlikh at serlik2@uic.edu.
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