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Home routines
Meal planning, cooking, cleaning, laundry, organization, and routines that make daily life easier to direct.
ILS · RCEB
Independent Living Services for skills used in real life.
Functional skill training, skill maintenance, and individualized assistance for adults pursuing greater independence across home and community life.
ServiceILSRegional CenterRCEBDesigned aroundChoose a real goalFirst stepAsk about fit
Availability and next steps are confirmed through a conversation with RILC and the planning team.
The question behind ILS
What skill does the person want to learn, maintain, or use with greater independence?
Current California guidance describes ILS as non-center-based training, skill maintenance, and individualized assistance connected to functional daily living. It may support an adult living in their own home or with a parent, family member, or another person. The work begins with goals identified through the IPP and keeps the person actively involved in learning and practice.
The ILS skill-building loop
A skill becomes useful when it works in real life.
Teaching is connected to a real routine, practiced with the person, and adjusted as strengths, circumstances, and support needs change.
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Choose a real goal
The person identifies a routine, task, or decision that matters in daily life.
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Break it into steps
Together, the activity is made understandable, manageable, and suited to the person’s communication.
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Practice beside the person
Staff explain, model, prompt, and practice without automatically taking over.
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Use it in real life
The person applies the skill where it matters: at home, in the community, or during a routine.
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Review and adjust
Teaching methods, pace, and prompts change as skills, barriers, and circumstances evolve.
Illustrative teaching sequence. Actual goals, frequency, and methods depend on the IPP and authorized service plan.
Areas of daily life
Skills become useful through real practice.
These examples show how support can connect with everyday life. Each person’s plan is individual.
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Money & purchasing
Budgeting instruction, shopping, price comparison, bill awareness, and informed choices about everyday spending.
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Community mobility
Planning routes, using transportation, arriving safely, and building confidence in familiar community settings.
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Health access & organization
Calendars, appointment preparation, questions, wellness routines, and access to care within non-medical role boundaries.
A useful fit conversation
Start with purpose, rights, and the person’s real situation.
These signals can help organize a discussion with the Regional Center planning team. They do not determine eligibility or authorization.
A functional goal matters now
The person wants to learn, maintain, or strengthen a skill connected to actual daily life.
Practice can happen in context
Teaching can be connected to the setting, routine, decision, or task where the skill will be used.
The method needs personalization
Communication, culture, pace, sensory needs, strengths, and preferred prompts shape instruction.
Progress can be reviewed
Participation, barriers, maintenance, and changing support needs can be discussed with the planning team.
Regional Center pathway
RCEB service pathway
RCEB coordinates services and supports in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Its ILS procedure begins with needs identified through the IPP, followed by possible provider referral, mutual-fit discussion, assessment when authorized, and planning-team review.
Ask RILC aboutAsk about a specific city in Alameda or Contra Costa County. RILC provider status, operational coverage, geographic fit, staffing readiness, and current availability are confirmed separately.
Explore Regional Center areas Information for Service Coordinators
Service code: 520
Regional Center: Regional Center of the East Bay
Official jurisdiction: Alameda, Contra Costa
Frequently asked questions
Understand the pathway before sharing details.
Must a person already live alone to receive ILS?
No. Current DDS guidance allows ILS to support an adult living in their own home or with a parent, family member, or another person. The IPP identifies the functional goals and authorized support.
How is ILS different from SLS?
ILS focuses on learning, maintaining, and applying specific skills for greater independence. SLS coordinates broader individualized supports for an adult living in a home they own, lease, or rent.
Does ILS provide jobs or employment services?
No. RILC does not offer Supported Employment through ILS. It does not provide jobs, job development, placement, job coaching, vocational assessment, worksite training, supervision, or employment retention. If employment is an IPP goal, any RILC involvement is limited to non-vocational daily-life support or coordination expressly included in the authorized plan; Supported Employment requires separate authorization and an appropriate provider.
Does ILS support decrease as skills grow?
RCEB’s ILS procedure expects teaching and assistance to fade when possible as the person gains independence in the identified skill areas. If ongoing support remains necessary, the provider communicates with the planning team so goals, safety, and the appropriate service model can be reassessed. Any change remains an IPP and authorization decision.
Can an ILS Instructor drive someone?
Authorized support may include route planning, learning to use community transportation, or accessing ordinary transportation resources. This website does not promise staff transportation. Any staff-provided ride must be within RILC’s authorized service design and the person’s written plan and must meet driver, vehicle, insurance, consent, and safety requirements.
What health-management teaching can ILS include?
When expressly included in the written plan and within staff training, nonclinical teaching may include helping the person use their own calendar or routine, appointment preparation, health and hygiene routines, observation, documentation, and communication with licensed professionals. RILC does not prescribe, change dosage, administer medication, provide skilled nursing, or make clinical decisions.
A careful next step
Ask about ILS · RCEB without sending private records.
Start with your role, the service, a city or county, and a general question.
Continue With ILS · RCEB Email a General QuestionDo not attach IPP documents, diagnoses, UCI numbers, medical records, addresses, or identifying files.