1. Teaching consumers effective advocacy skills and how to use them.

2. Finding adequate time (for staff, board, and others) to devote to
advocacy efforts.

3. Learning how to network effectively and how to build local, state,
and national coalitions to work effectively on advocacy issues.

4. Overcoming bureaucratic barriers to making change in service
agencies and systems.

5. Dealing with issues from a cross-disability perspective, rather than from the perspective of a special interest group or A single disability type.

6. Making people with disabilities understand that advocacy is important and that they can have an influence on policies and other matters that influence them.

7. Organizing board members, staff, volunteers, and consumers to advocate effectively.

8. Obtaining and maintaining resources to do advocacy effectively.

9. Dealing with inadequate transportation services that severely
hamper advocacy efforts.

10. Understanding the politics of specific issues so that advocacy efforts can be undertaken in an effective manner.

*Preliminary results of a study conducted by ILRU using a modified Delphi approach.  ILRU, 3400 Bissonnet, Suite 101, Houston, TX 77005 713-666-6244 666-0643 (TDD).

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1. Overcoming lack of consumer motivation and self direction.

2. Insuring that independent living planning is consumer directed.

3. Assessing consumer needs and developing appropriate independent
living plans for addressing those needs.

4. Meeting the needs of persons with all types of disabilities.

5. Overcoming inadequate family support for work being done in skills
training sessions.

6. Determining if services are effective for both the individual being served and for the program as a whole.

7. Having adequate funding to support the skills training program.

8. Identifying or developing an effective skills training curriculum.

9. Recruiting qualified people to do independent living skills training.

10. Conducting a program that is attractive to consumers, so that they
want to participate.

*Preliminary results of a study conducted by ILRU using a modified Delphi approach.  ILRU, 3400 Bissonnet, Suite 101, Houston, TX 77005 713-666-6244 666-0643 (TDD)

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1. Formulating goals and objectives for peer counseling program

2. Recruiting peer counselors to represent various disabilities and areas of interest

3. Documenting activities with minimal paperwork

4. Receiving adequate and appropriate referrals for peer counseling

5. Evaluating individual peer counselor performance (both staff and volunteer peer counselors)

6. Marketing the peer counseling program (public information)

7. Finding time to be both service provider and program manager

8. Developing a quality assurance approach for determining quality and consistency of peer counseling services

9. Overcoming barriers associated with operating a peer counseling program in a sparsely populated rural area

9. Overcoming apathy on the part of consumers to help themselves and others

11. Ongoing training with resource materials (manuals, audiovideo products, etc.)

11. Overcoming transportation problems (getting counselors and consumers together

11. Obtaining more funding so that more time can be devoted to peer counseling

14. Determining how much management responsibility one can effectively assume

15. Time management: ability to manage time and to set priorities

16.   Defining peer counseling as a service

*Results of a study conducted by ILRU using a modified Delphi approach.  ILRU, 3400 Bissonnet, Suite 101, Houston, TX 77005  713-666-6244, 666-00643 (TDD)

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