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Please enter goal number 1: Â Systems Change within the wider community for Healthcare, accessible In Home Support Services, accessible bike lanes, nature trails, and beachs, Cal Poly Campus and access to resources and support to our Tribal communities.Â
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Self-Advocacy/Self-Empowerment: Definition
Self-Advocacy/Self-Empowerment: Goals involving improvement in a consumer’s ability to represent himself/herself with public and/or private entities, the ability to make key decisions involving himself/herself, or the ability to organize and manage his/her own activities to achieve desired objectives. Communication: Goals involving either improvement in a consumer’s ability to understand communication by others (receptive skills), and/or improvement in a consumer’s ability to share communication with others (expressive skills). Mobility/Transportation: Goals to improve a consumer’s access to her/his life space, environment, and community. This may occur by improving the consumer’s ability to move, travel, transport himself/herself, or use public transportation. Community-Based Living: Goals that provide for a change in living situations with increased autonomy for the consumer. This may involve a consumer’s goals related to obtaining/modifying an apartment or house. Community-based living arrangements may include apartments, privately owned housing, self-directed assisted living, or self-directed living with family/friends. Educational: Academic or training goals that are expected to improve the consumer’s knowledge or ability to perform certain skills that would expand his/her independence, productivity or income-generating potential. Vocational: Goals related to obtaining, maintaining, or advancing in employment. Self-Care: Goals to improve/maintain a consumer’s autonomy with respect to activities of daily living such as personal grooming and hygiene, meal preparation and nutrition, shopping, eating, and other aspects of personal health and safety. Information Access/Technology: Goals related to a consumer obtaining and/or using information necessary for the consumer’s independence and community integration. These may include use of a computer or other assistive technology, devices, or equipment, as well as developing information technology skills, such as using computer screen-reading software. Personal Resource Management: Goals related to a consumer learning to establish and maintain a personal/family budget, managing a checkbook, and/or obtaining knowledge of available direct and indirect resources related to income, housing, food, medical, and/or other benefits. Relocation from a Nursing Home or Institution: Goals related to relocation from nursing homes or other institutions to community-based living arrangements. This significant life area specifically pertains to consumers who live in a nursing home or institution, unlike the Community-Based Living life area, above, which includes any consumer regardless of his/her living situation prior to receiving IL services. Community/Social Participation: Goals related to full participation in the mainstream of American society, including the ability to participate in community events such as community fairs and government functions, attend worship services and access recreational activities and facilities. Other: IL goals not included in the above categories. Report the number of UNDUPLICATED consumers who set/met goals in each area during the cumulative reporting period covered by this report. Consumers can be reported in more than one Significant Life Area category. Consumers cannot be reported more than once in any Significant Life Area category. Provide the number of unduplicated consumers who set goals related to each Significant Life Area listed below and the number who met their goals during the cumulative reporting period covered by this report.Â
Bike audit report for CRTP campaign  with a feature from Systems Change Advocate-Jess
Letters to our Representatives, Congressman and Assemblyman for Systems Change and educational purposes.
Advocates climbing the stairs of the Senate building to advocate for Section 504.
Advocatess taking to the streets to march for protestation of the changes to Section 504.