60 Temple Place
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-338-6665
TTY: 617-338-6662
Youth Services
BCIL Resources
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BCIL provides our four core services for youth consumers, 14 to 22 years old, as well as adults with disabilities. These core services include Peer Mentoring, Skills Training, Information and Referral, and Advocacy.
We help young people with disabilities during these key transition years find housing, search for jobs, solve transportation issues, and obtain appropriate equipment. We work with them to develop skills such as resume and cover letter writing, budgeting, and checkbook balancing. BCIL provides guidance with the Individual Education Plan (IEP) and Individual Transition Plan (ITP) processes and our peer mentoring helps young people sort through questions such as these:
BCIL has three staff people dedicated to working with young people and we’ve greatly increased the number served by forming relationships with several school systems and various agencies. We coordinate, along with Easter Seals, monthly Youth Forums where young people with disabilities get together to discuss issues unique to their age group and organize activities to address these issues. Our Youth Specialists also help our consumers publish a newsletter targeted to young people with disabilities.
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