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, which is offered in conjunction with AIM’s Employment Services Program, is free of charge.
For more information, contact Peer Services Coordinator Jessica Farin at (607) 962-8225 or (607) 654-0228 (videophone).
