These organizations provide critical services and advocacy every day, helping people transition out of institutions, securing housing, making homes accessible, providing peer mentoring, and ensuring access to healthcare, education, and employment.

When funding is disrupted, lives are disrupted. Without support, people risk losing their independence, being forced into costly institutions, or going without essential services.

That’s why NCIL is launching the Protect IL Campaign. This campaign will defend the infrastructure that makes supports and service delivery possible and stronger.

• Provide a safety net so CILs and SILCs can continue serving people without interruption.
• Strengthen advocacy and mobilization by engaging our membership and individuals with diverse disabilities to organize and meet directly with legislators at the state and federal levels.
• Ensure rapid response when risks emerge, so people with disabilities aren’t left behind.
• Support legal action if necessary, while our priority is advocacy and direct engagement, if those avenues fail and the harm worsens, the Protect IL Campaign funds will give us the resources to protect Independent Living through the courts.

Your partnership makes this possible. By contributing to the Protect IL Campaign, you are helping safeguard the right to live independently and with dignity, today and for the generations to come.

Together, we can protect what matters most: the freedom of every person with a disability to live in their own home, make their own choices, and participate fully in community life.

Join us. Protect Independent Living.