Of the four, core independent living services at ECNV (peer counseling, independent living skills training, advocacy, and information/referral), by far the most frequently utilized service is information and referral. Thousands of volunteer and staff hours per year are dedicated to providing individuals with disabilities and the community with referrals to area resources and information about disability-related services.

As information and referral is a primary, core ECNV service, ECNV sought to place this valuable resource literally at the core of the Center itself.

The ECNV Disability Services Resource Library Core is a collection of disability-related printed and multi-media videos, periodicals, disability-specific subscriptions, peer-based advice, and answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Additionally, ECNV maintains three computers for drop-in use by all consumers with disabilities to access the Internet for information searches or to just refine their resume in a word processing program (pictured above).

Our goal is to maintain a dependable and up-to-date community resource that is easily accessed by all segments of the community, regardless of whether ECNV is actually open or not. To that end, significant effort is being directed toward inputting the data from our library into a format that is
accessible from our website: www.ecnv.org and to linking ECNV with local library systems.

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