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Mission: Access to independence promotes full participation of people with disabilities.
Programs: As a center for independent living (cil), access to independence of san diego, inc. Is dedicated to providing information and referral, advocacy, peer support, independent living skills training and transition services free of charge to all people with a disability regardless of type of disability or age. In addition, access to independence is committed to community integration and therefore has chosen to concentrate its efforts on transition and advocacy in order to achieve greater life changing outcomes for our consumers. In the fiscal year ending 6. 30. 17 we provided services to 6506 individuals. 1078 of those individuals either became or already were consumers of our organization who successfully achieved, in total, 919 independent living goals increasing their independence in the community. As an example, we transitioned 45 consumers from institutional based settings to community based living , helped consumers with disabilities achieve 109 employment goals and assisted 37 youth with disabilities in the transition process to employment, career and post high school education options.