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Announcements
- NCIL Statement Condemning and Rejecting the Department of Justice’s Memo Attempting to Undermine Disability Civil Rights
- Join NCIL’s Advocacy and Public Policy Committee Orientation on June 22
- Conference Workshop and Agenda Details Now Available
- Memorandum: NCIL Takes Member-led Advocacy to the Next Level
- NCIL Mourns the Passing of Former President Kent Crenshaw
- 2026 Youth Scholarship Applications Now Open!
- Call for Volunteers
- Call to Action: Protect IL National Challenge
- Nominate for the 2026 NCIL Advocacy Awards!
- Announcing the Oral History Project: Pioneers of Disability Rights
- Statement to Membership and Explainer on the President’s FY 2027 Budget
- Member Exclusive: Nominate for the NCIL Board of Directors!
- NCIL Condemns Push for Guardianship for Veterans
- NCIL Seeks Region 2 Representative
- NCIL 2024 + 2025 Annual Report Now Available!
- Independent Living Funded for FY 2026!
- Early Sponsor Call
- Federal Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Update
- NCIL Regional Forums Start February 2026
- NCIL Welcomes Haley Yetter as Mobilization and Engagement Coordinator
- NCIL Seeks Strategic Planning Consultant
- Website Redesign Bootcamp: A Special Offer for NCIL Members
- NCIL Statement on the Passing of Bob Kafka
- Join the Protect Independent Living Campaign!
- Independent Living Appropriations and Budget Update
- NCIL Mourns the Loss of our Dear Friend, Jorge Pineda
- A Message from Insi & ArcStone: Special Offer to NCIL Members
- Federal Funding and Government Shutdown Update
- NCIL Announces Organizational Restructuring to Strengthen Membership Mobilization and Advocacy Impact
- Update and Explainer on Government Shutdown
- Federal Funding for Centers for Independent Living Secured Ahead of New Grant Cycle
- Unofficial Isn’t Enough: Centers for Independent Living Still Waiting for Federal Funding
- Update: Independent Living Program Funding
- NCIL Mourns the Loss of Shelly Simmons
- 2025 Conference Photos Now Available!
- Joint Action Alert: Protect the Programs That Support Our Community
- Hill Report Form
- NCIL Mourns the Loss of Tim Sheehan
- NCIL Statement on Passage of Budget Reconciliation Bill: H.R. 1
- Action Alert: Tell Your Senators to Vote NO on the Budget Bill
- NCIL, APRIL, and NASILC Response to the DHHS FFY 26 Budget Proposal
- NCIL Hosts a National Conversation on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility: Exploring Equity in a Shifting Landscape
- Reconciliation Bill: Medicaid and SNAP Update
- Medicaid Update: Act TODAY and TOMORROW to Protect Medicaid and SNAP!
- Mobilize for Medicaid: Tell State Legislators to Contact Your Federal Delegation
- NCIL, APRIL, and NASILC Full Joint Statement on Leaked Memo on Proposed Budget
- NCIL, APRIL, and NASILC Statement on Leaked OMB Memo Regarding HHS Proposed Budget
- Call for Strategic Partners: Join NCIL in Advancing Disability Rights and Access
- ACTION ALERT: Ask Secretary Kennedy and Congress to Protect ACL Programs
- NCIL, APRIL, and NASILC Statement on the Reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services
- HHS Restructuring and the Future of Independent Living Programs
- NCIL Welcomes Waymo to Washington, DC; Advocates for Inclusive Innovation in Autonomous Transportation
- Action Alert: Maintain the Department of Education!
- NCIL Announces 2025 Sponsorship Opportunities
- Action Alert: Act Now to Protect Medicaid
- Action Alert: Help Save Section 504
- A Heartfelt Thank You for Taking Action!
- A Call to Defend Our Communities: The Devastating Impact of Trump’s Funding Freeze
- Protect Independent Living Funding: Stop the Freeze on Federal Programs
- Action Alert: Urge Congress to Protect Medicaid!
- Action Alert: Tell DOL to End Subminimum Wage Now!
- Support NCIL’s Disaster Relief Fund – Give Aid to CILs and SILCs Affected by Disasters
- Information Alert: WIOA Reauthorization and Subminimum Wage Advocacy
- Urge Your Representative to Bring the Latonya Reeves Freedom Act to the Floor!
- NCIL Welcomes Four New Board Members!
- In Memoriam: Diane Coleman
- Action Alert: Urge Congress to Fund and Support Critical HCBS Legislation
- Statement on the 34th Anniversary of the ADA
- NCIL Statement in Support of Texas Advocates
- Information Alert: I&R Issue Brief
- Funding Opportunity for CILs: Disability Innovation Fund
- Action Alert: Tell Congress to Fund HCBS and the IL Program in the 2025 Budget!
- Recommit to the Independent Living Movement
- NCIL Signs Amicus Brief in Support of the Rights of the Homeless in Landmark Supreme Court Case
Executive Director Messages
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Ordinary People!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Little by Little
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Life Happens
- A Message from Theo Braddy: We Cannot Fix What We Refuse to Define
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Now is the Time
- A Message from Theo Braddy: The First Time
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Honoring Judy Heumann: Her Spirit Lives On
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Rethinking the Word ‘Vulnerable’: Am I Vulnerable?
- A Message from Theo Braddy: There Will Come a Time! The Pendulum Swings!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: The Revolution is Now
- A Message from Theo Braddy: The Narrative Remains
- A Message from Theo Braddy: The Tomorrow We See
- A Message from Theo Braddy: New Beginnings
- A Message from Theo Braddy: The Giants We Face
- A Message from Theo Braddy: A Precious Moment
- A Message from Theo Braddy: We Have Much Work to Do
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Am I Undesirable?
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Your Words Hurt Me
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Something Should Be Said!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Should I Accept?
- A Message from Theo Braddy: The Greatest Motivator!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: I’m Okay with That!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: A Bright Sunny Day
- A Message from Theo Braddy: We Must Be Stronger!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Unfinished Work
- A Message from Theo Braddy: We Gather!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: An Invitation to Join NCIL’s March and Rally on July 26!
- A Message from Theo Braddy on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Why We Are Stuck
- A Brief Message from Theo Braddy, Executive Director of NCIL: 5 for 5 Campaign
- A Message from Theo Braddy, New Executive Director, National Council on Independent Living
Jobs
- OPEN POSITION: Men’s Support Group Facilitator – Spinal Cord Injury, Ability360 (Phoenix, Arizona)
- OPEN POSITION: Disability Health Research Program Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (Hybrid in Bethesda, Maryland)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, SMILES Center for Independent Living (Southern Minnesota)
- OPEN POSITION: Independent Living Specialist, Disability Connection Midsouth (Memphis, TN)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director (Part-Time), Accessible Resources for Independence (Glen Burnie, MD)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Silicon Valley Independent Living Center (San Jose, CA)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Mainstream CIL (Little Rock, AR)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Rolling Start, Inc. (San Bernardino, Inyo, Mono Counties, CA)
- OPEN POSITION: Assistant Director, Access 2 Independence (Iowa City, IA)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Insight Enterprises, Inc. – Peninsula CIL (Hampton, VA)
- OPEN POSITION: Community Organizer, Center for People With Disabilities (Boulder, CO)
- OPEN POSITION: Transitions Coordinator, Tri-County Independent Living (Eureka, CA)
- OPEN POSITION: Programs and Political Director, The CIL (Berkeley, CA)
- NCIL Seeks Resource Development Consultant
- Now Hiring: NCIL Mobilization and Engagement Coordinator
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, APRIL (Remote with Occasional Travel)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Center for Disability Empowerment (Columbus, Ohio)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (Sacramento, CA)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Independent Living Center (Homer, AK)
- OPEN POSITION: Assistant Director, Access to Independence (Madison, WI)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, Western Reserve Iilc (Warren, OH)
- OPEN POSITION: Home Modification Program Manager, disAbility Resource Center (Fredericksburg, VA)
- OPEN POSITION: Operations Manager, Indiana SILC (Indianapolis, IN; Hybrid)
- OPEN POSITION: Peer Support Counselor, Independence Now (Hybrid Remote; Silver Spring, MD)
- OPEN POSITION: IL Coordinator, Disability Connections (Pitts, GA)
- OPEN POSITION: Executive Director, SILC of Kansas (Topeka, KS)
- OPEN POSITION: Director of Direct Care Workforce Development, National Council on Aging (Arlington, VA)
- OPEN POSITION: Independent Living Specialist, ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia (Hybrid remote; Arlington, VA)
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Press Releases
- SNEAK PEEK: Meet NCIL’s 2025 Keynote Speakers!
- NCIL to Launch Employment Resource Hub and Peer Network with Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grant
- United States Senator Bob Casey, Jr. to Receive the Frank Harkin Memorial Award for Second Consecutive Year
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- Meet NCIL’s 2026 Keynote Speakers!
- Update on ILP Funding and Questions on Government Shutdown
- CALL TO ACTION: Submit Comments to DOE by June 16!
- A Message from Theo Braddy: There Will Come a Time! The Pendulum Swings!
Visitability
- Architectural Digest: Americans Need Home Design That Welcomes Everyone
- Making Homes Visitable: A Guide for Wheelchair Users and Hosts
- Mandating Visitability for New Housing is a No-Brainer
- HGTV: ‘Visitability’ Makes Homes Accessible
- Builder: Understanding the Need for Accessible Home Design
- Baltimore Sun: With aging population, a gap in home design
- Builder: 75% of Baby Boomers Unready to Age in Their Homes
- Back Home in Indiana Alliance: ‘Visitability’ moves from a new idea to an important trend in Indiana
- LIVESMART Design: “Visitability” – a way of thinking about aging and design
- Builders: Cincinnati may be model on ‘visitability’
- Council resolution makes city more inclusive
- Book advocates for accessibility in single-family homes
- Canton veteran welcomed back to his renovated home just in time for the holidays thanks to Purple Heart Homes
- Aging at Home? Be the Host With the Most (Visitability)
- Builder: 7 Aging-In-Place Essentials
- Concrete Change cited in “Psychology Today” blog
- Concrete Change hosts U.S. Secretary for Fair Housing at East Lake Commons
- Advocate Gets Visitability Guest Column in City Paper
- Memphis Downtowner Visitability Article
- Public Health Award for Concrete Change
- Nevada Public Radio: Let us in: Why Southern Nevada needs visitable homes
- PVA Magazine: Visitability – A Growing Trend
Events
- 2026 Annual Conference on Independent Living!
- Coffee Chats for Organizers, Advocates, Non-Management Staff
- Coffee Chats for Organizers, Advocates, Non-Management Staff
- Coffee Chat for Executive Directors and Management-Level Staff
Resources
- Disability and Independent Living Book & Movies List
- Freedom of Movement
- The Movement for Independent Living: A Brief History
- The Independent Living Movement: History and Philosophy to Implementation and Practice
- The Independent Living Service Model
- A Philosophical Foundation for The Independent Living & Disability Rights Movements
- History of Independent Living
- “The Independent Living Paradigm”
- Consumer Control in Independent Living
- Systemic Barriers to Community Living Experienced by People of Color in Institutional Settings
- Report: Generative AI and IEPs
- Empowerment Through Partnership Toolkit for Centers for Independent Living (CILs) Toolkit
- Centers for Independent Living Connecting People with Disabilities to Competitive, Integrated Employment
- I&R Issue Brief: Service Delievery
- I&R Issue Brief: Quality Assurance
- I&R Issue Brief: Technology Supports Connection
- Partnering with CILS and the IL Network for Housing and Services Support
- Advance Housing Stability: Centers for Independent Living (CILs)
- Visitability Resource Hub
- Accessibility Standards for Medical Diagnostic Equipment
- Final Rule Implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Advocacy and Lobbying in Centers for Independent Living
- Disability and Housing Instability: Lived Experience Panel Hosted by NCIL
- NCIL and HelloFresh Present: Community Conversations – Fresh, Accessible, Affordable Meal Solutions
- NCIL Statement of Inclusion
- Beyond Payroll: Optimizing Your Organization’s Financial Processes
- Budget 101! Overview of the Federal Appropriations Process
- End Subminimum Wage Webinar
- NCIL Listening Session: Housing
- IL Network and ADVC Update and Community Listening Session
- Introducing A Home Usability Peer Network
- NCIL and Verizon Present: Affordable Connectivity Program – The Basics
- More Calls, Increased Needs – Trends in I&R
- COVID-19
- Tools and Strategies for Independent Living Advocates Mentoring Families of Children with Disabilities
- Follow Up NCIL Listening Session on the End of COVID Federal State of Emergency and “Medicaid Unwinding”
- Rally to Protect Medicaid
- Regional IL Showcase Archives – AprIl 2023
- NCIL Listening Session on the End of COVID Federal State of Emergency
- 5 for 5: Independent Living Budget Increase Campaign Launch
- Regional IL Showcase Archives – January 2023
- Regional IL Showcase Archives – November 2022
- Community Living Summit
- Home Modifications Fact Sheet for Centers for Independent Living
- Elevate 2021 – Campaign Outreach Methods: Paid, Earned and Owned Media, Direct Mail, and Email Marketing
- Funding Options for Transition and Diversion During COVID-19: A Fact Sheet for CILs
- Elevate 2021 – Fundamentals of Digital Media
- Elevate 2021 – Harnessing Your Power to Advocate for Change
- Elevate 2021 – Organizing Post Obama, Trump, and COVID
- Elevate 2021 – POWER Fundraising: 5 Keys to Raising Money Confidently and Effectively (Even If You’re a First-Time Candidate and Never Fundraised Before!)
- Elevate 2021 – Your Story. Your Campaign. Your Brand Online.
- Elevate 2021 – Introduction to Campaigns, Self and Opposition Research for Candidates
- Disability Equity During Disasters Toolkit
- How Centers for Independent Living Can Access Support from the CARES Act and Small Business Administration
- National Organizing Project
- National Organization Project – Resource Archive
- Sex Ed for Individuals with I/DD
- CILs and Parenting with a Disability
- The Art of Negotiation: Closing the Deal
- Advocacy – We CAN Do It!
- Including People with Disabilities in Your Political Campaign: A Guide for Campaign Staff
- Disability Pride Toolkit and Resource Guide
- We Can’t Breathe: The Deaf & Disabled Margin of Police Brutality Project
- Fragrance-Free Policy (Example)
- Environmental Health Barriers Signage Examples
- Suggestions for People Going Fragrance Free
- Environmental Health Barriers Toolkit
