The Center offers individualized and group facilitated peer support services to share experiences, resources, and find solutions to disability related issues. The Center also provides training to persons who want to volunteer their time to mentor others.

The Peer Support Program runs cross-disability peer support groups. The group members choose a topic to focus on for a number of weeks and conduct structured discussions on the topic.

• Parents with disabilities
• Couples with disabilities
• Job search
• Hidden disabilities
• Interpersonal communication
• Disability-related communication / self advocacy
• Social skills
• Relationships
• Assertiveness
• Self-Esteem/Self-Image
• Healthy grieving of disability-related losses

• Peer Mentoring—matches experienced consumers of CILO with new consumers for individual support toward reaching specific goals
• Community Transition—matches residents of nursing homes with other people with disabilities as guides to support them when leaving the nursing home and becoming integrated into the community

For assistance or questions regarding the Center's Peer Support Program, please email us or call (513) 241-2600.