Posts for tag: Independent Living Movement

What is independent living to you?

Posted on June 26, 2015

After leaving the hospital with my new injury 29 short years ago, I rolled into a Center for Independent Living (CIL) because I needed help finding Personal Care Assistants (PCA) so I could live independently in my own home. I received no real help, just a very outdated list of phone numbers. I was both disappointed and bewildered. I was even more surprised to learn that providing this kind of help was not something that CILs are expected to

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