Core Services   |
Advocacy |
ATI provides personal (individual) and systems (public policy) advocacy services in the following areas: Education, Employment, Health Care, Commerce, Social, and Citizenship. Systems. ATI aims to increase access to equal opportunities in exercising social, economic, educational, and legal rights. ATI works with individuals, community organizations, and state/national networks to promote full inclusion of people with disabilities, and to improve the implementation of existing laws: federal, State, and local. For more information on this service, contact: |
Independent Living Skills Training |
ATI provides individuals with training on everyday life skills. The ATI Independent Living Advocate facilitates a variety of group and one-on-one training sessions that relate to budgeting, meal preparation, arranging transportation, personal assistance services, job seeking, and self-advocacy. Other independent living skills trainings relate to locating community resources, managing benefits, accessing health care and other social services, doing laundry, using a computer, managing difficult family situations, and many others. For more information on this service, contact: |
Information & Referral |
ATI provides individuals with resources and options that may be necessary in making informed choices about living, learning, and working independently. Individuals of all ages, with and without disabilities, call upon ATI to provide information relating to disability rights and services, and to help them locate other needed resources locally and state-wide. ATI also offers its information & referral services to other businesses and human service agencies. For more information on this service, contact: |
Peer Counseling |
Every ATI staff member offers peer counseling services to individuals with disabilities, sharing ideas and experiences about living with a disability. ATI aims to offer individuals greater awareness and control over their own life through application of the independent living philosophy. For more information on this service, contact: |
"Nothing More, Nothing Less For All People with Disabilities"