About Us

Independent Living Resources, Inc. (ILR) is based in Durham, North Carolina and was incorporated in 1987. ILR is a private company that specializes in producing, researching, and marketing products for educators, human service agencies and staffs, social workers, foster parents, youths, other caregivers, and others involved in youth development. Our primary areas of focus are adolescents, life skills (interdependent living), foster care and adoption services, group and residential care, at-risk youth, and workplace safety for human service staffs. ILR is staffed by social workers and other professionals with experience working with adolescents.

ILR has a publishing division that emphasizes developing materials covering the spectrum of child welfare programs an agency might be involved with on a daily basis. Products include books, videos, training curricula, multimedia (CD, DVD), and Internet web-based materials. ILR also has a research and program evaluation division, and conducts research on the efficacy of its products, as well as providing research and program evaluation services to other organizations. The company has presented hundreds of seminars and training sessions individually and at national conferences and consulted at the state, county and local level in 47 of the 50 United States, Canada, and Bermuda. ILR staffs have been members of numerous task forces and standard setting groups including those organized by the Child Welfare League of America, National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators, and National Independent Living Association.