Peer Counseling is provided between two or more individuals with disabilities, to share ideas and experiences about living with a disability, in order to gain greater awareness and control over their lives.

Independent Living Skills Training teaches everyday life skills and is often provided by people with disabilities. Training may include budgeting, meal preparation, arranging transportation, or personal assistance services, job seeking, and self-advocacy.

Information and Referral to provide individuals with resources and options that may be necessary in making informed choices about living, learning, and working independently.

Individual and Systems Advocacy addresses access to equal opportunities in exercising social, economic, educational, and legal rights. Independent Living Centers work with individuals, community organizations, state/national networks; to promote full inclusion of people with disabilities, and to improve the implementation of existing laws: federal, state, and local.

Additional Services & Programs

• Sign Language Interpreting [Mid-Hudson Interpreter Service]
• Mobile Benefits Counseling
  
• Barrier-Free Architectural Consultation
• Special Education Advocacy
• Employment Readiness Training
• Housing assistance
• Securing, using and maintaining adaptive equipment
• Voter registration and voting accessibility
• Americans with Disabilities Act workshops
• Disability awareness training
• Independent Living Philosophy training
• Deaf culture awareness training
  
  
  

Taconic Resources for Independence, Inc.
82 Washington Street, Suite 214
Poughkeepsie NY 12601
845-452-3913 voice
845-345-8416 VP
845-485-8110 TTY
845-485-3196 fax
tri@taconicresources.org