Western Reserve Independent Living Center
Western Reserve Independent Living Center
4076 Youngstown Rd. SE
Warren, OH 44484
United States
ph: 330-372-3325
fax: 330-373-1826
alt: 330-373-1825
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Services
We provide referral service to all ages of people with disabilities. We have a newsletter and Family Days, social/educational/independent living skills get-togethers, and computer and Emergency Preparedness classes.
Independent Living
What is Independent Living?
Philosophy
Independent living is about having the right to make choices, to make one's own mistakes, and to learn from them in the same way that people without disabilities can. People with disabilities must be empowered to take control over their own lives.
"CILs promote a philosophy of consumer control, peer support, self-help, self-determination, equal access, and individual and systems advocacy in order to maximize the leadership, empowerment, independence, and the integration and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities into the main stream of American society." (RSA, 1992)
Emergency Closings :
When Warren City Schools are closed due to emergency weather, our offices are also closed.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
History
The first CILs were established in the early 1970s, and were defined much as they are today as consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private, nonprofit agencies.
To learn more about the history of independent living see:
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Western Reserve Independent Living Center
4076 Youngstown Rd. SE
Warren, OH 44484
United States
ph: 330-372-3325
fax: 330-373-1826
alt: 330-373-1825
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