Spokane Center for Independent Living (SCIL) is a consumer-driven, 501 (c) (3) non-profit Independent Living Center providing services to meet the needs of the Inland Northwest Disability Community. SCIL provides a comprehensive range of services to educate, assist, empower and provide resources to the cross-disability community. Our goal is to empower them to make their own decisions to live independently.
Services include:
Advocacy
Independent living skills training
Information & referral
Peer Support
Youth & Adult transition
Housing search assistance
SCIL provides services to primarily Spokane & Spokane Valley, Washington. We are located at 8817 E. Mission Avenue, Suite 106, Spokane Valley, WA 99212.
You can find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=spokane%20center%20for%20independent%20living%20-%20scil
We are new to Steemit.com and would like to thank @r2cornell for suggesting we take a serious look at this social media site. For disclosure purposes @r2cornell does work part time for us in the Youth In Transition Program.
We are not calling this an "introduceyourselfpost", because we want to get a picture taken of some of our staff in front of our office sign with the Steemit logo.
We are a small organization and as with many smaller non-profit organizations resources are limited. We did receive some some timely Steem as donations to get us started here on Steemit.
We hope to post a more thorough description of our organization and services we provide. We also hope this provides us the venue to provide information on independent living and disability issues. Our staff bring a lot of experience in the field of rehabilitation to the table.
It has been difficult to find much information on non-profit organizations on Steemit. We found a post by @patrice that was encouraging. She has indicated she may do a follow-up post to one she did months ago. We also found the following post that was encouraging: https://steemit.com/giving/@bethalea/taking-the-reins, and I know there were a few other posts as well. Hope to hear from others here on Steemit that might provide us with suggestions.
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Thanks for reading and we hope this is the first of many posts...
I enjoy working part time at SCILWA. The new director and staff are dedicated to provide these services in the Spokane area. I look forward to assisting them with this blog, and being a support for them in anyway I can.
This kind of organizations would be good to spread all over the world, they would be very helpful, thanks @scilwa for your contribution to spread this kind of things, I congratulate you friend.
Thank you for the kind words! There are Centers for Indepenndent Living (CIL's) worldwide. I don't know of a world-wide listing, but for a complete list of all the CIL's in the U.S. visit here:
http://www.ilru.org/projects/cil-net/cil-center-and-association-directory
Thank You. We appreciate your comment.
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Thank you. We appreciate it
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i really ur post and u got a new follower!
@R2cornell is a good person
Thank you