Address
115 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60654
Website
www.accessliving.org
Description
Founded in 1980, Access Living is a cross-disability organization governed and staffed by a majority of people with disabilities.
Access Living fosters the dignity, pride and self-esteem of people with disabilities and enhances the options available to them so they may choose and maintain individualized and satisfying lifestyles.
To this end, Access Living offers peer-oriented independent living services; public education, awareness and development; individualized and systemic advocacy; and enforcement of civil rights on behalf of people with disabilities.
Access Living recognizes the innate rights, abilities, needs and diversity of people with disabilities, works toward their full integration into community life and serves as an agent of social change.
Category
Arts & Culture, Children & Youth, Community, Volunteerism & Philanthropy, Disabled, Education – Preschool, Education – K-12, Education – Higher Ed, Elderly, Homeless, Human Rights, Hunger & Poverty