“Take Care” | Prioritizing Self-Care While Living With a Disability
Dr. Ali Carter, host of Independence Now’s “Facing COVID Now” series, shares valuable insights on the importance and evolution of self-care for individuals with disabilities.
Stories that highlight the core services offered by Independence Now and other Centers for Independent Living.
The Power of Peer Support: Independence Now Staff Share Their Thoughts
Peer Counseling is support from people with shared life experience, in our case, people with disabilities serve as counselors for others with disabilities.
Systems Advocacy for the Disability Community
As members of NCIL, Independence Now attends visits with our Federal Elected Officials to educate them on areas of significance for the disability community.
Implementing Ideas
The Independence Now team looks back at 2020 and lists all the new ideas that were implemented – and what a list it is!
Advocacy through Supports Planning
Read how the Supports Planning Agency (SPA) within Independence Now had a recent individual advocacy success.
Core Service Focus: Advocacy
Advocacy is an important part of the past and present of CILs and while we have made progress in advocating for the rights of people with disabilities, we still have a long way to go.
Supports Planning Agency Helps Consumers Stay Connected with Technology
The SPA has had to get really creative with figuring out how to stay connected with our consumers during COVID. One positive thing to come out of the pandemic is that we were able to assist consumers as they learned new types of technology that they now use in many ways to stay connected!
Maryland’s Medicaid Buy-in: Employed Individuals with Disabilities (EID)
Marylanders with disabilities CAN WORK and keep their health benefits! The Employed Individuals with Disabilities (EID) Program extends Medical Assistance health benefits to working Marylanders with disabilities.
Many Work Incentives Exist
Work incentives include employment programs that are funded by SSA as well as benefits management services. In this post, we mention a few of the many work incentives available.
Ticket to Work Help Line and Busting Myths!
There are many myths floating around about work and benefits that create widespread fear about going back to work. MD-WIN wants to spread the truth about how employment affects Social Security disability benefits and associated medical insurance.