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	Core Services: Information and Referral   RCIL staff has information concerning community resources and is able to make referrals for persons with disabilities.  RCIL's resource library provides valuable information on disability topics.  We also make appropriate referrals to other community agencies to help individuals obtain these services.   Advocacy   • Individual Advocacy - RCIL helps people with disabilities develop the skills they need to represent themselves.  These skills help them act on their own behalf to obtain support services from agencies in the community.   • Systems Advocacy - We work at community, state and federal levels for policy changes that make facilities, services, and opportunities accessible to people with disabilities.     IL Skills Training   RCIL offers training to help people with disabilities learn skills to live as independently as they choose.  Individualized support includes personal care training, help to obtain and use assistive technology, housing search assistance, how to access transportation or healthcare systems, budgeting, and other topics as needed.     Peer Counseling   RCIL helps connect a person with a disability with other people who have a disability and are living independently in the community.  Together, they explore options and solve problems that sometimes occur for people with disabilities.  For example, they may help each other adjust to a newly aquired disability, adapt to changes in living arrangements, or learn to use community service more effectively.     Deinstitutionalization   Individuals who live in a facility, or are at risk of entering one, have community options.  We help them learn their options and find the resources they need for the option they choose.
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