AIM Independent Living Center works with consumers in the state’s Adult Career and Continuing Education Services-Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR) programs.
AIM staff draw from personal and professional experience with disability and employment to help ACCES-VR consumers prepare for — and successfully maintain — jobs in the community. We help people with disabilities identify and remove barriers to employment.
We 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
The Peer Services Program is free of charge.
For more information, contact Peer Services Coordinator Jessica Farin at (607) 962-8225, ext. 231 or (607) 654-0228 (videophone).