Disability Resource Center
Center For Accessible Living
Meeting the Challenge of Independent Living
Mission
The Center for Accessible Living is an innovative leader in empowering all people to achieve their goal of independent living while involving the entire community.
Welcome
The Center for Accessible Living is Kentucky’s first Independent Living Center with offices located in Louisville and Murray and services spanning the entire state of Kentucky. The Center for Accessible Living (CAL), a private, non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization, is a disability resource center for people with disabilities, governed by people with disabilities. It operates on a cross disability basis, which means that individuals will be served regardless of type of disability.
Our experienced staff provides information, advocacy and services that create opportunities for people with disabilities to live as independently as possible. Independent living for people with disabilities means having the opportunity and responsibility to exercise their right to control their own lives and make their own decisions.
Contact
Louisville, KY
305 W. Broadway, Suite 200
Louisville, KY 40202
Voice: (502) 589-6620
TTY: (502) 589-6690
Fax:(502) 589-3980
Toll Free: (888) 813-8497
Louisville Info@calky.org
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Murray, KY
1051 N. 16th Street, Suite C
Murray, KY 42071
Voice: (270) 753-7676
TDD: (270) 767-0549
Fax: (270) 753-7729
Toll Free: (888) 261-6194
Murray Info@calky.org
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VOTE! November 4th, 2008, 6 am - 6pm
In Kentucky
Important voter information can be found at the State Board of Elections website.
Kentucky: State Board of Elections – Voter Information
The deadline to register to vote is 28 days before election.
October 6, 2008 is the last day to vote in the November 4, 2008 Election.
You may print a Voter Registration card from this site.
Kentucky: State Board of Elections - Register to Vote
Then submit the completed voter registration card to your local county clerk.
Click Kentucky: State Board of Elections - County Clerks for a listing of
Kentucky 's county clerks.
Want to Learn More?
Vote Smart - A non-partisan website which includes information about the voting records of elected officials.
The American Association for People with Disabilities has created a non-partisan website which includes information about all the 2008 presidential candidates and their views on disability issues.
If you encounter problems casting your vote on General Election Day (November 4)
Call your
local County Clerk
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Protection and Advocacy’s voter hotline
(1-800-372-2988) Hours: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (EDT)
Have a legal guardian? Have questions about voting? Give P&A a call!
Quick News and Notes
Please visit our calendar or what's new section for more events, news and notes.
Healthcare Barriers Survey for Kentuckians with Disabilities
Kentuckians with disabilities have many barriers in accessing healthcare. The Center for Accessible Living will hold forums and conduct surveys across the Commonwealth of Kentucky to determine what your barriers and unmet needs are. The Center will compile that information for a report on the top five unmet health care needs of Kentuckians with disabilities. If you are interested in giving us your comments, please take a minute to fill out this healthcare barriers survey. The Center encourages you to attend a healthcare forum in your area. For more information, please contact Angela Casey at (502) 589-6620.
This project funded by a grant from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. The Foundation's mission is to address the unmet health care needs of Kentucky, by developing and influencing health policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities and promoting health equality.
Survey of community participation for individuals who have a sensory impairment and/or mobility impairment
Take part in a Study of Community Participation. If you have a sensory impairment and/or mobility impairment, you may be eligible to participate in a new research project. This research aims to understand what people with sensory and/or mobility impairments do in their daily lives, how their environments affect their community participation and what, if any, help they need to complete activities.
Help TARC with long-range planning
TARC is distributing this survey as part of a long-range planning effort. Please take a minute to fill out this brief online survey and help TARC set a course for the 21st Century! Click here for the TARC survey.
Services
Our Commitment to Service and Outreach
The Center for Accessible Living is committed to being the premiere technical assistance, information, and referral resource center on disability in Kentucky and southern Indiana. We are committed to the improvement of the community in which we live and the quality of life of the people we serve. Our goal is superior service and anticipation of the community's needs.
Through community education and individual supports and knowledge, people with disabilities have increasingly become integral members of our community. From individuals living with disabilities for decades to people who have newly acquired their disability, people have been turning to the Center for Accessible living for service, information, and support for over twenty-five (25) years.
All services are at no cost, unless otherwise noted.
Core Services Include:
Advocacy
Advocates work in partnership with consumers to resolve incidents of discrimination and denial of services through mediation with governments, business, and service providers. Advocacy also includes working for systems changes that reflect the needs of people with disabilities at the federal, state, and local levels.
Individual Advocacy efforts help consumers learn and develop self-advocacy skills, provide assistance with the resolution of conflicts that impede service delivery, investigate discrimination claims, and disseminate information regarding program services.
Systems Advocacy helps consumers learn to interact with appropriate social services, to understand the program reporting requirements and to encourage the achievement individual goals, including employment goals, if desired.
Information and Referral
The Center serves as a resource center and a clearinghouse of information concerning disability. Information and Referral provides the Kentuckiana area with information about individuals with disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act, other disability laws, and individual access. The Center also makes provides appropriate referrals to assist the community in learning about disabilities and disability related issues. CAL makes information and Referral Services available to everyone.
Independent Living Skills
Classes develop skills needed to help consumers learn basic and advanced skills to achieve self-reliance for a more independent lifestyle. Classes include credit counseling, assertiveness training, adaptive cooking, mobility training, nutrition, homemaking, education opportunities, and communication skills among others.
Peer Counseling
One-on-one counseling, group counseling, and peer support assists individuals with disabilities to help each other on a cross-disability basis. Peers provide assistance and support to increase skills and knowledge that will overcome interpersonal, family, social, financial, interagency and other disability-related challenges.
Nursing Home Transition
Assistance to people residing in nursing facilities who wish to move back to the community. Along with local partners, identify and assist people to make an informed decision to move out of nursing facilities into the community setting of their choice.
Other Cooperative Programs and Services Include:
Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA)
Choices Navigator, the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Program is a funded by Social Security and administered through the Center for Accessible Living to serve the western counties of Kentucky. The Center will make available a Community Work Incentives Coordinator, a knowledgeable advocate, to help beneficiaries and recipients to understand complex work incentive program requirements.
This program helps SSI and SSDI disability beneficiaries ages 14 through 64 understand their work options so that they may make more informed choices regarding work. The program provides information about Federal, state, and local work incentive programs and related issues.
As a part of this program, participants also receive information about protection and advocacy services that are available without charge.
Employment Program
The Projects with Industry (PWI) Program, funded by the US Department of Education is for persons with disabilities seeking career opportunities. The Center partners with private industry, government, and education agencies to promote and expand employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Career Choices, a PWI program, is offered at both Center for Accessible Living sites, located in Louisville and Murray, KY.
Housing Assistance
The Housing Coordinator maintains a computerized list to assist individuals with disabilities to locate accessible rental units.
Kentucky ADA Outreach
Through Kentucky ADA Outreach, the Center offers assistance with disability-related issues and promotes voluntary implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 (ADA), a Federal law that promotes full participation in society and economic self-sufficiency for people with disabilities.
Kentucky ADA Outreach is dedicated to removing barriers and creating equal access for people with disabilities.
The Kentucky ADA Outreach is an affiliate of the Southeast Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center, one of ten regional Disability Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) across the nation funded by the United States Department of Education and supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
Personal Care Attendant Program
The program enables eligible adults with significant disabilities to hire employees to assist with domestic, personal, and transportation needs.
Rampbuilders Program
The program manages the ramp construction for people with mobility impairments in the Louisville Metro area.
Equipment Loan
Consumers may borrow Wheelchairs, walkers, and other equipment.
Newsletter
A quarterly publication, Taking Charge, is a forum for community dialogue on independent living, the Center's services and projects, upcoming events and advocacy for disability rights.
Fee for Services Include:
Sign Language Interpreter Services
The Center employs one full-time, certified staff interpreter and several certified, professional freelance interpreters to serve the needs of individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Interpreters are available to travel throughout Kentucky. Interpreters adhere to the NAD/RID Code of Ethics. Whatever the situation, the Center has an interpreter to fill the need. Standard Rates apply. The Center can also arrange sensitivity training for interested groups.
Technical Assistance
Staff provides ADA compliance consultation, conducts accessibility surveys in public buildings, or architectural modifications. Non-profit and government rates available.
Presentations
Presentations educate the community concerning disability-related issues. Non-profit and government rates available.
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