The mission at AboutAssistedLiving.org is to help people with disabilities and the elderly maximize their healthy years and age gracefully. There is an online database of tools, references, and articles that cover topics like available care options, financial support, and free resources that are available in every state. 

Alliance and its staff help people with disabilities solve day-to-day problems that interfere with independent living. Alliance provides information and referral services, peer support, independent living training, community-based housing transition services and advocating for people with disabilities.

Researching and selecting a college that fits the needs can be daunting, but that challenge can be even greater when you’re a student with disabilities. However, that doesn’t mean your options are limited. As technology has advanced, so has accessibility for all students.

Disability Partners provides independent living services, community education, advocacy and more for people with all types of disabilities.

Disability Rights helps people across North Carolina gain access to services and opportunity through its legally based advocacy.

The Center provides advocacy, peer counseling and peer support, independent living skills training, information and referrals, with other related services for persons with disabilities.

The NC Client Assistance Program (CAP) provides assistance and advocacy for several programs that were created under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) related to employment and independent living.

Centers for Independent Living (CILs) are consumer-controlled, community-based organizations that provide programs and services for people with disabilities and their families.  The goal of CILs is to promote and support opportunities for people with disabilities to fully participate in an integrated community and search for the possibilities to live as they choose.

NCCDD’s Supported Living: Making the Difference initiative set out to demonstrate how individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (I/DD) can live in a home of their choice in the community with certain supports. The initiative uncovered many of the challenges that individuals with varying levels of needs face in making a successful transition to living in their own home with support. Working with numerous community partners, Vaya Health compiled all of the learning experiences and lessons learned into this guidebook or resource manual titled “It’s My Home.”

The Adaptables encourages independent living for persons with disabilities and is committed to help individuals with disabilities become more fully integrated into society.

The Arc of North Carolina is committed to securing for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work and play.

A Know-Your-Rights Guide for Voters with Mental Disabilities and Advocates

This guide explains the voting rights of people with mental disabilities. It also talks about unfair laws or policies which might restrict your right to vote and explains what you can do about them. This guide, which you are reading now, is written for people with mental disabilities—such as intellectual, developmental, or psychiatric disabilities--and their families in language that’s easy to understand.