Life and Independence for Today
Regional Action Teams
At the present time LIFT sponsors ten Regional Action Teams. Each group is part of the StateWide Action Team (SWAT).
SWAT is funded through the Pennsylvania Statewide Independent Living Counsel (SILC). The SWAT is a consumer controlled cross-disability, statewide advocacy effort, to effect systems change for persons with disabilities.
Each action team is comprised of people with and without disabilities who advocate for disability-related issues on a local and state level.
Please visit the links below for the time, date, and location of team meetings.
Bradford Area Consumer Advocacy Group
Brookville Area Consumer Advocacy Group.
Cameron County Consumer Advocacy Group
Clearfield Area Consumer Advocacy Group.
DuBois Area Consumer Advocacy Group
Elk County Consumer Advocacy Group
Kane Area Consumer Advocacy Group
Smethport Area Consumer Advocacy Group
Potter County Consumer Advocacy Group
Punxsutawney Consumer Advocacy Group
Training is provided to teach an individual with a disability to exercise his or her rights to self-advocate. This assistance is available not only to consumers, but also to their families and to organizations that want to teach people self-advocacy skills.
We teach consumers how to achieve the independent lifestyle they desire. This is accomplished through periodic advocacy workshops, teaching individual consumers how to handle situations requiring advocacy, providing information which affects the individual's quality of life, and encouraging consumers to become involved in issues which affect them.
For further information about LIFT's Consumer Advocacy Groups, please contact LIFT at (814) 781-3050 or toll free (800) 341-LIFT (5438). Or email us at lift@liftcil.org.