Empowerment Zone -- helping individuals and communities achieve self actualization and full citizenship
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DIMENET HOT NEWS NETWORK Click image to enter memorial page DIMENET BACKGROUND Historically, people with disabilities have been excluded from participating fully, or most often even minimally, in the day to day life and decision making processes of their families, communities and governments. With the advent of independent living centers (ILC's) created by people with disabilities and through their struggle, the exclusions have begun to erode. Among the most formidable means to this end has been information
The mission of ILC's is to empower persons with disabilities to exercise greater control of their own lives, conduct community systems change activities to ensure greater integration into the community, and provide consumer-directed services to enable them to live in the least restrictive and most integrated environments. Providing independent living services is one of the most information intensive tasks ever undertaken. ILC staff seek to empower consumers by connecting them with knowledge so consumers can
DIMENET addresses the problem created by the Federally mandated purpose that the ILC mediate the process of peer to peer information sharing between individuals with disabilities both consumers and/or professionals. To accomplish this objective, the ILC must efficiently collect, access, and manage large amounts of data. Additionally, the philosophy of independent living requires reliance on the extemporaneous sharing of non-tangible knowledge that people acquire as a result of their own previous life experi
Empowerment Zone -- helping individuals and communities achieve self actualization and full citizenship
DIMENET NETWORK