Some examples of these types of skills are Job Readiness, Life Skills, Office Skills, Transportation Training and Social Skills. Group activities are one way we learn and practice social skills. Another group activity is Peer Support. Peer support consists of persons with disabilities working with other people with disabilities who may need support exploring options and solving problems. Commonly shared problems and feelings are addressed and possible solutions explored.
Peers are role models and support givers.
See the Peer Support Conference available at this site. This service involves providing information to individuals and the community about resources or other services in the community that the person may need but not know about. This involves ways to assist the person present their position to others in order to achieve, maintain, or improve their independent living goals. It may include accessing services from appropriate agencies, appeal of an agency decision, learnign rights under the law, and completion of forms to receive services such as Social Security applications and Voter registration. This may include assisting businesses in making their place of business assessible for persons with disabilities and working toward changing policies in the government that negatively affect persons with disabilities.