Utah Independent Living Center

A program specifically for youth 14 - 22 that teaches life and employment-related skills. Provides employment skills training to youth including identifying job skills, creating resumes, interviewing skills, and maintaining a job. Topics covered include money and time management, dating, shopping, how to look for and keep a job, community safety, completing forms for jobs, general hygiene, riding the bus, TRAX, and using bus schedules. These skills are taught on location in high school classrooms and post-high school classrooms.

This program provides people with disabilities the chance to engage in recreational and leisure activities within their community. It offers outings to group activities and events allowing people with disabilities to interact with others and discover the community resources available.

Provides disability-related information and referrals to available services including accessible housing, transportation options, equipment, support services, etc.

Loans assistive equipment to those with a temporary need, such as a person needing equipment while waiting for funding to purchase their own or a person needing a temporary wheelchair while their own is repaired. Equipment can be loaned out for 3 months with the option to renew the loan if required. Borrowers assume responsibility for the upkeep of all loan equipment. Equipment available includes wheelchairs, scooters, shower benches, walkers, crutches, commodes, bedside tables, canes, toilet seat risers, and shower seats.

Local nonprofit, non-residential agency that assists persons with disabilities to achieve greater independence by providing services and activities that enhance independent living skills. It also promotes the public’s understanding, accommodation, and acceptance of their rights, needs, and abilities through public awareness efforts.

The program supports individual and community advocacy strategies that create positive change for persons with disabilities and their environment at a local and state level. It also provides direct advocacy for individuals at the community level. This ensures that persons with disabilities are successfully integrated into their communities. Also, teaches persons with disabilities self-advocacy skills. They learn to communicate and negotiate with agencies, service providers, employers, and others to obtain needed benefits, services, or accommodations.

The program provides skills training to enhance the independence of adults with disabilities in their homes, families, and communities. Classes offered include cooking, assertiveness, relationships, financial management, adjustment to disability, and other consumer needs.

This program provides services to people living in nursing homes who want to move out into the community. Services available also help divert individuals living in the community from having to enter a nursing home. The program identifies the needs of participants, helping them make the transition and connects them to appropriate agencies and support systems in the community.

Provides a peer/mentor support program to people with disabilities. People with similar disabilities provide skills training activities like using public transportation, budgeting, and resource navigation. The peer support specialist also assists in completing applications for services like housing.