CENTRO PRO VIDA INDEPENDIENTE INC

DURING FISCAL YEAR 20242025 SERVICES WERE PROVIDED TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY: WORKSHOPS, EDUCATIONAL TALKS, AND SERVICE FAIRS WERE CONDUCTED SERVING 119 INDIVIDUALS. OUTREACH ACTIVITIES WERE HELD IN MULTIPLE MUNICIPALITIES, PROVIDING SERVICES TO 196 INDIVIDUALS. EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS INCLUDED YOUTH TRANSITION, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES, HOME SAFETY, ADA LAW, AND MORE, IN COLLABORATION WITH PARTNER AGENCIES (47 ACTIVITIES). 8 CONSUMERS RECEIVED INDEPENDENT LIVING PHILOSOPHY TRAINING IN 4 WORKSHOPS. 15 ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES WERE CONDUCTED TO PROMOTE SYSTEMIC CHANGE AND IDENTIFY COMMUNITY BARRIERS. 17 VOLUNTEERS CONTRIBUTED TO SERVICE DELIVERY. MEDIA OUTREACH INCLUDED 9 RADIO PROGRAMS WITH PARTICIPATION FROM 26 INDIVIDUALS. OTHER SERVICES: REMOVABLE PARKING PERMIT: 3 / 3. ID (DEAF PERSON ID, LAWS 107 AND 51): 3 / 3. DIRECTORIES: 10 / 10. ADDITIONAL CATEGORY: 11 / 11. ELEVEN (11) COMMUNITY MEMBERS BENEFITED FROM DISABILITY PARKING PLACARD AND ONE (1) PERSON BENEFITED FROM ID PWD: ID EXPRESS LINE AND DISCOUNT IN ACTIVITIES (ID LAW 51, ID LAW 107). THROUGHOUT THE FISCAL YEAR, THREE HUNDRED AND FIVE (305) PEOPLE IMPACTED THROUGH WORKSHOPS, EDUCATIONAL TALKS, AS FOLLOWS, SERVICES FAIRS WERE ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN (119) INDIVIDUALS SERVED, SERVICE OUTREACH ONE HUNDRED NINETYSIX (196), AND RADIO INTERVIEWS BENEFITED TWENTY-SIX (26) PEOPLE. ON OTHER WORKSHOP ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENT LIVING 4 TRAININGS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF INDEPENDENT LIVING WERE PROVIDED TO EIGHT CONSUMERS. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WAS PROVIDED TO FOUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS. C.P.R. TRAINING WAS OFFERED TO 32 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 22 COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND 10 CONSUMERS. EMPLOYEES, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, CONSUMERS, AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PARTICIPATED AND BENEFITED FROM THIS ACTIVITY. SYSTEM ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION WERE PROMOTED THROUGH PUBLIC HEARINGS ATTENDED BY 13 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 11 CONSUMERS AND 2 COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 15 (FIFTEEN) ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT ACTIVITIES WERE CONDUCTED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF 155 INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING 78 CONSUMERS AND 77 COMMUNITY MEMBERS.