Community Living Skills

The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library includes success skill resources to use in the design of educational and workforce development curricula. 

The California Department of Education has compiled information from state and national sources to assist California youth with disabilities with the transition to adulthood. 

Alliance of Disability Advocates in Raleigh, North Carolina is a center for independent living offering trainings in self advocacy and self determination, communication skills, employment, budgeting, meal preparation, and a variety of other independent living skills. 

Rising Ground of the Greater New York City area offers recreational opportunities and workplace skills training to people with disabilities.  

disABILITY Resource Center is a Center for Independent Living in Knoxville, Tennessee offering independent living skills trainings on a variety of topics. 

A list of disability advocacy organizations in Illinois from Olmstead Rights. The page also includes miscellaneous information about home health services, Medicaid, and other community living resources. 

A list of disability advocacy groups and CILs in the New York City area. 

An independent living skills program offered by Jewish Family Services Houston for people age 15-36 with intellectual disabilities. 

An Independent Living Skills Training for people with disabilities in the Upper Peninsula area of Michigan. 

This case study from the Center on Human Policy, Syracuse University, describes formal and informal supports and explores the importance of informal social networks to people with developmental disabilities.