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What to Expect at CCCILPrograms and services tailored to the independent lifestyle -
Explore the Rich History of CCCILWe have decades of experience in advocacy on your behalf
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Learn Independent Life Skills at CCCILLive fully on your own terms everyday
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Stay Informed! Get the Latest News from CCCILFrom events to our newsletter, CCCIL keeps you updated
What is Independent Living?
"We support equality and full participation in life."
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PLEASE NOTE, DUE to COVID-19: CCCIL is modifying office operations. All business will be conducted by phone or electronically. All essential services will continue to be provided by phone, online and by mail.
Central Coast Center for Independent Living
Serving Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
CCCIL promotes the independence of people with disabilities by supporting their equal and full participation in life. CCCIL provides advocacy, education, and support to people with disabilities, their families, and the community. We’re one of a nationwide network of Centers for Independent Living whose philosophy is that we who have disabilities have the right to control our lives and make our own choices.
Explore our website by clicking the links below:
- • Living independently in the community
- • Working and living with a mental disability
- • How to get involved and offer support
- • Make a donation to CCCIL
- • Explore devices, tools, and gadgets for daily living
- • Hiring or becoming a personal assistant
- • Living independently with a traumatic brain injury
- • Assistance for homeless veterans and their families
What is Assistive Technology? Assistive Technology (AT) includes devices, products, and services that allow people with disabilities to move freely, obtain jobs, and maintain their independence. These include such items as eyeglasses, hearing aids, wheelchairs and ramps, communication devices, specialized computer software, and assistance dogs.
Device Lending and Demonstration Center
CCCIL is one of twelve device lending and demonstration centers in the state of California that provides short term loans of assistive devices and gadgets that can help consumers live independently. CCCIL has a variety of devices to choose from ranging from easy to use “low-tech” to more advanced “high-tech” devices.
- Assistance in applying for Federal and County Benefit programs (medical/financial)
- • Problem Solving and Advocacy
- • Benefits Analysis and Advisement
- • Benefits Support Planning
- • Benefits Management
Therapist Helping Patient
Connect with us!
CCCIL is part of a nationwide network of Centers for Independent Living (CIL) – 1 of 28 in California – and is the only organization on the Central Coast serving people of all ages with all forms of disabilities in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties.
At the Central Coast Center for Independent Living (CCCIL), we are passionate about assisting those of us living with disabilities to make our own choices and participate fully in our communities.
Main Office
Monterey County
318 Cayuga Street, Suite 208
Salinas, CA 93901
Voice (831) 757-2968
Fax (831) 757-5549
Monterey County
Branch Office
Santa Cruz County
Located in the State Dept.
of Rehabilitation Office
1350 – 41st Avenue, Suite 101
Capitola, CA 95010
Voice (831) 462-8720
Fax (831) 462-8727Santa Cruz County
Located in the State Dept.
of Rehabilitation Office
info@cccil.org
Office Hours
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday & Sunday:
Closed
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