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Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment

Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Centers for Independent Living
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disease/Disability Registries
Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Case management assists youth in transition to adulthood to be successful in their community by helping them learn life skills, find support systems, mentoring, etc.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Provides 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, transition from institutions into the community, deflection from institutional placement, transition from youth to adult services, and advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
RISE provides independent living skills training and supervision services for individuals of all ages with developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, brain injury, or mental illness.
Provides individuals with disabilities the skills to increase and maintain independence. Will help to identify and work toward goals and put together a plan to succeed.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Community Living (SCL) Program helps individuals develop skills needed to live independently. Skills developed includes: money management, household management, healthy living, and recreation/community activities. Service is tailored to each individual's goals and needs.
Offers classes for those with a mental illness, an intellectual disability, or other disabling conditions. Classes help clients learn and develop skills to live successfully in the community and live independently at home.

Offers services which assist persons with disabilities in achieving and/or maintaining independence. Services include, but are not limited to:

- Information and Referral (personal assistant, interpreter, and housing referrals).

- Access and Advocacy (accessibility surveys, assistive devices, Braille printing).

- Skills Development (personal assistant management training, basic computer skills, public transit use, budgeting).

- Counseling (independent living, peer, vocational).

- Free Amplified Phones for Illinois residents with verifiable hearing loss who have a land line.

- Independent Living Needs Assessment.

- Mass Transit District Disability Verification.

- Reintegration into the community from nursing home, etc. (Includes possible financial assistance for moving home or into supportive living).

- PACE Presentations.

- PACE will readily provide sign language interpreters to access PACE events on request.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Specialized Information and Referral
Peer Counseling
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Empowers people with disabilities to attain new skills and techniques so they are able to participate in daily living, recreational/social opportunities, and vocational/volunteering activities. The Center adapts to and address the individual needs of those served.

Assists people with disabilities in mastering skills they need to live independently including:

- Managing a personal budget.

- Teaching home-making skills.

- Promoting self-advocacy.

- Obtaining assistive devices and medical equipment.

- Utilizing community services.

- Accessing public transportation.

Training Advancement Skills in the Community provides supportive services for people with disabilities who are living in their own apartments/homes. Support services available include, but are not limited to: medication management, transportation, meal planning, and budgeting. Trainings for the use of community resources, home and community safety, and social skills are also available. The agency can provide assistance for up to 24 hours/day.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Social Skills Training
Medication Information/Management
Disability Related Transportation
Provides HCBS Intellectual Disability and Brain Injury Waiver Community Living and employment supports to adult age 18 and up. Candeo now offers outpatient mental health therapy to children and adults. Services include:

COMMUNITY LIVING SUPPORT for individuals with disabilities including in-home and community supports that assist individuals with disabilities to live independently in the community of their choice. Serves individuals with autism, intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, brain injury, individuals dealing with interfering behaviors and dual diagnosis of intellectual disability and mental illness.

EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT for individuals with disabilities. This service provides community supports to find, obtain, learn and maintain a competitive employment position in the community. Specializes in individuals with intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, brain injuries and chronic mental illness.

HOME BASED HABILITATION SERVICES are for individuals who have a mental illness. Provides supports in the home, community and employment site to assist the individual to maintain independent living and employment.

MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY for children and adults of all ages. Candeo therapists specialize in Art and Play Therapy, Trauma recovery and more. The team also specializes in therapeutic support for adults experiencing both an intellectual disability and a mental health diagnosis.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Prevocational Training
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Centers for Independent Living
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Supported Employment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Provides assistance with regaining or maintaining independence in the home and community. Primarily serves those who, due to advanced age or secondary disability, do not wish to obtain paid employment. Rehabilitation teachers travel throughout the state to assist with learning simple techniques to complete everyday tasks such as marking canned goods when a person can no longer read the labels, dialing the telephone, using the microwave or oven, identifying clothing and medications, getting around in the community safely, obtaining newspaper reading programs, and much more.

A program designed to provide community-based services that will meet the needs of individuals with brain injuries and help prevent unnecessary institutionalization.

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Disability Rights Groups
Case/Care Management
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Teaches life skills and community mobility. This is a supported community living environment. Respite care is provided.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Provides disability services, including intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, daily and hourly home-based habilitation and support community living, day habilitation, and supported employment.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Supported Employment
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Provides person-centered services directed toward Supported Community Living and self-advocacy training. Training in independent living skills: self-care, social skills, home maintenance/ housekeeping, and community access for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and chronic mental illness.

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Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Provides person-centered services directed toward Supported Community Living and self-advocacy training. Training in independent living skills: self-care, social skills, home maintenance/ housekeeping, and community access for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and chronic mental illness.

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Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Independent Living Skills Instruction

- Assists qualified individuals who are blind or have low-vision learn the skills needed to maintain an independent lifestyle.

- Provides a variety of low-vision aids and assistive devices at no cost.

- Offers referrals for additional services such as community orientation, mobility training, and guide dog services.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Orientation and Mobility Training
Assistive Technology Equipment

Services include, case management, independent living skills training, financial literacy training, parent skills classes, counseling, and affordable supportive housing placement.

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Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Financial Literacy Training
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers different types of residential and supported living services to those with intellectual, developmental and mental health disabilities.

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Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Communities/Complexes
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities
Adult Residential Care Homes
Offers classes for those with a mental illness, an intellectual disability, or other disabling conditions. Classes help clients learn and develop skills to live successfully in the community and live independently at home.