The purpose of Prairie Independent Living Resource Center (PILR) is to achieve the full inclusion and acceptance of people with disabilities through education and advocacy. PILR is a Non-Profit organization.
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Are you needing a little help around the house?
Prairie Independent Living Resource Center, Inc. (PILR)
Is now offering home maintenance and cleaning services as “Chore Busters.”
Now recruiting for Clientele.
Call us Today at 620-663-3989
Vision for the future:
A world of inclusion where diversity is celebrated and choices are honored.
“It’s easy to tell if a center’s doing strong advocacy. Someone from the state
is telling them they’re not allowed to lobby.”
~ Ed Roberts
Disability Mentoring Day
Stories
Work Works!
I met Tom when he was a freshman in high school but did not get to know him until his Junior year. I got to know him because he was involved with a project that our center did to show youth with disabilities the importance of community service. This young man had always been told that he would graduate high school and get on SSI and that would be his life, but I, and others here at the Independent
Prisoner in her Sister’s Home
When I met this consumer she was living in squalor in her sister’s basement. She is in her mid-fifties and struggles with depression and anxiety as well as living with a life-long learning disability. She was paying her sister rent but was not allowed to have a key to the home. She stated that she felt like a prisoner...
Down the Lighted Path of Recovery
PILR was there for me. The people who work for PILR are a special bunch of people who are the most positive and encouraging and sincere I’ve ever come across. Having given up on hospitalization, I asked the people of PILR if I could stay in their waiting area during the day -- for hours...