What services does LEND provide?
LEND staff are persons who have disabilities and they provide a unique combination of peer-based, self-help services that include: • Peer Counseling – LEND peer counselors assist individuals with disabilities to develop and work toward their own goals to achieve independence and self-reliance by providing peer mentoring, encouragement, and information about community resources and adaptive techniques as well as sharing insights and perspectives gained through their own experience of living with disability. Peer counseling can be provided on an individual basis and through support groups. • Independent Living Skills Training – LEND staff can provide specific training in adaptive skills and techniques that enhance one’s capacity to face the challenges of living with disability and become more self-reliant, e.g., acquiring and learning to use assistive technology, learning to use public transportation when you can’t drive, make your home environment more accessible and usable, budgeting a
