Annual Report 2009
Services Statistics
The Independent Living Center of the North Shore and Cape Ann, Inc. during FY'09 provided individual independent living services to 209 persons with disabilities comprehensively. Each of the 209 consumers was paired with an ILCNSCA staff that provided the four mandated core services: information and referral, independent living skills development, peer counseling, and individual self-advocacy skills development. Through this peer relationship each consumer chose his/her goals for increasing their independence and independent living, and from their Peer Guide received guidance, information, and opportunities for skill development including self advocacy skills to attain their chosen goals.
The consumers came to the Center from 21 of the twenty-five cities and towns in our services area in '09. The Center also provided 889 individuals Information and Referral services. 99 groups (such as agencies, workers in agencies) received Information and Referral Services. This equals 656 units or hours of Information and Referral services provided in '09.
A total of 2822 units/hours of Community Services were provided by ILCNSCA in '09. These services included: technical assistance on ADA issues and Architectural Access Board variances; advocacy and newsletter mailings to our mailing list of over 1100 as well as postings on our web page of information regarding issues critical to independent living; on-going groups (Peer Support Group; RASP; CAAT); representation on the Statewide Independent Living Council, and on other community collaborative groups such as the HOME consortium, Lynn Multi-Disciplinary Team, the Aging and Disability Resource Consortium of the Greater North Shore; lectures to students of UMASS Medical Center/Shriver Center LEND program, UMASS Lowell, North Shore Community College and Salem State College on Disability Awareness and Rights as well as Emergency Preparedness for People with Disabilities; multiple visits to the Statehouse with our sister centers and the Statewide Independent Living Council; visits in DC with MA US Congressman John Tierney and Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, letters, emails and petitions to legislators along with letters of support on a wide variety of advocacy issues affecting federal and state legislation on critical life services, and social and recreational opportunities such as luncheons at Restaurants, Celtics, Bruins, Red Sox games, Jazz brunch at the Hawthorne Hotel, Plaster Fun time, and bowling. Overall, we had another productive year of ILCNSCA addressing and overcoming the cultural barriers to full inclusion of citizens with disabilities in all of community life.
Charts of Service Statistics follow.
