Independent Living Centers (ILCs) are a Cost-effective Solution

• The unemployment rate for individuals with disabilities is 66.5% (Cornell survey, 2007)
  
  Independent Living Centers are the PRIMARY RESOURCE for more than 80,000 people with disabilities to:
  • Enhance community integration
  • Increase physical and communication access
  • Remove disincentives to work

Consumer-controlled --- Nonprofit, community-based, non-residential --- Self-help peer-driven model

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Demand has increased 27% from 2000 to 2007, while funding has increased only 11%

Restore: $1.5 million cut and
Request: Increase of $5.0 million to:

• Establish in statute the 3 ILCs new in 2007-08 and 1 new center for youth transitions, job readiness, and further de-institutionalization

• Serve an additional 7,500 individuals