Access Alaska

Access Alaska is a private, non-profit, consumer-controlled organization that provides independent living services to people who experience a disability. As an Independent Living Center, the company's mission is to encourage and promote the total integration of people who experience a disability and Alaskan elders to live independently in the commu... nity of their choice. Through the company's assistance and support individuals with disabilities can identify and obtain needed services in an effort to maintain their independence as opposed to living in an institution. Access Alaska was formed in 1983 to serve the Anchorage area. Services were later expanded in 1984 and 1998 when offices in were opened in Fairbanks and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. "Independent Living does not mean that the company want to do everything by ourselves, do not need anybody or like to live in isolation. Independent Living means that the company demand the same choices and control in the company's every-day lives that the company's non-disabled brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends take for granted. The company want to grow up in the company's families, go to the neighborhood school, use the same bus as the company's neighbors, work in jobs that are in line with the company's education and interests, and raise families of the company's own. The company is profoundly ordinary people sharing the same need to feel included, recognized and loved.Read More