Helping Everyone Live Productvely (HELP)
PO Box 91256
Santa Barbara, CA
93101
- Disaster Preparedness
⇒ Everyone needs a plan: all people should review their needs with Family, Friends, and care givers. Build your support network now before disaster strikes. Construct a plan now -- prepare Yourself. Be proactive!
- Attendant & Resource Referral
⇒ Any Referral Program is to provide information and referral to community-based resource options that meet ones needs. Specifically, HELP referrals are made to resources and services available to consumers, families, service providers, businesses and the community.
⇒ Attendant Referral Program helps persons with disabilities learn how to employ Personal Care Attendants, covering aspects such as recruiting, screening, making the hiring decision and training.
- Networking & Peer Support
⇒ A cornerstone concept in the philosophy of the independent living movement is the principle that people with disabilities should be in charge of their lives and that they are best helped by other persons with disabilities who have experienced and delt with similar experinces, conditions or circumstances. The purpose of peer support is for people with disabilities to help one another to cope, to learn, to grow and thrive in healthy and empowering ways, to gain perspective and insight from real practical experience on a peer level.
- Advocacy
⇒ Designed to help both individuals and the community as a whole to facitate clear, and consice and effective communication. In our view, all people with disabilities or not have the potential and indeed the right to function
as prductive & contributing persons that fully integrate with all other parts of the community -- with empasis on a pragmatic, individualizied situations in an ecological perspective.
- Training & Consulting
- Domain & Web Hosting
- Technical Research & Development
- Student Scholarship:
⇒ Travel For Educational Purposes.