AIM Independent Living Center employs Peer Integration Specialists who work with consumers in the state’s Adult Career and Continuing Education Services-Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR) programs.
Peer Specialists share their own experiences with disability and employment to help ACCES-VR consumers prepare for — and successfully maintain — jobs in the community. They help people with disabilities identify and remove barriers to employment.
Peer Specialists provide assistance to ACCES-VR consumers with:
- Self-advocacy/self-sufficiency
- Obtaining reasonable accommodations
- Understanding rights and responsibilities in employment as a person with a disability
- Transportation coordination
- Locating affordable, accessible housing
- Navigating benefit programs and community services
- Developing a Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) for the Social Security Administration
- Health care self-management
- Applying for the Medicaid Buy-In Program for Working People with Disabilities
ACCES-VR Peer Integration Project services are free of charge.
For more information, contact Peer Integration Coordinator Jessica Farin at (607) 962-8225, ext. 231.