Helping Everyone Live Productively (HELP)

PO Box 91256
Santa Barbara, CA
93190
Helping Everyone Live Productively — provides avenues which allow individuals to recognize and implement available opportunities; helps to facilitate the education of those with disabilities or otherwise disadvantaged, thereby enabling them to achieve greater independence; to integrate with and realize productive roles in society; to realize their value and their potential, thereby living happier, healthier and simply more productive lives.

 Projects
  • Advocacy
  •   ⇒  Designed to help individuals and the community as a whole; to facilitate clear and concise and effective communication in order to assist with end goals of independent living and seamless integration with society at large. In our view, all people with disabilities or not have the potential and indeed the right to function as productive & contributing persons that fully integrate with all other parts of the community — with emphasis on a pragmatic, individualized situations in an ecological perspective.

  • Attendant & Resource Referral
  •   ⇒  Any Referral Program is to provide information and referral to community-based resource options that meet ones needs. Specifically, HELP referrals are made to resources and services available to consumers, families, service providers, businesses and the community.
       Attendant Referral Program helps persons with disabilities learn how to employ Personal Care Attendants, covering aspects such as recruiting, screening, making the hiring decision and training.

  • Disaster Preparedness
  •   ⇒  Everyone needs a plan: all people should review their needs with family, friends, and care givers. Build your support network now before disaster strikes. Construct a plan now — prepare yourself. Be proactive!

  • Networking & Peer Support
  •   ⇒  Cornerstone concepts in the philosophy of the independent living movement are the principle that people with disabilities should be in charge of their lives and that they are best helped by other persons with disabilities who have experienced and have dealt with similar experinces, conditions or circumstances and for people with disabilities to help one another to cope, to learn, to grow and thrive in healthy and empowering ways, to gain perspective and insight from real practical experience on a peer level.

  • Evaluation, Consulting & Training Services

  • Domain & Web Hosting

  • Technical Research & Development
    •   ⇒  Adaptive technologies & assistive devices (hardware & software)

  • Student Scholarship
    •   ⇒  Travel For Educational Purposes.

  • Possibility for sponsorship of individualized projects
    •    ⇒  Living up to its name, Helping Everyone Live Productively, HELP is open to take proposals for projects of highly individualized nature. Projects for motivated individuals or group adopted based on a set framework of requirements - a structure based on recommendation, referral, need, availability of resources, objective evaluation, and other considerations, see our proposal page. Projects considered are those concerning: independent living circumstances, adaptive devices and other assistive technologies, vocational training (job skills) and integration with mainstream society.