Where are CILs responsible for Providing the 4 Core Independent Living Services?
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In almost 30% of U.S. counties, no CIL is responsible for providing IL Services.
"Responsibility" indicates that a CIL has assumed responsibility to provide the 4 Core IL services in a county as a condition of receiving State, Federal, or other funding, and/or the CIL Board has included the county in its 4 Core IL service area responsibility. The 4 core independent living services are: information and referral, independent living skills training, peer counseling, and individuals and systems advocacy.
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There are 3141 counties, county equivalents, and independent cities. In 268 counties more than one CIL is responsible for all or part of the county. For example there are 7 CILs in LA county -- home of almost 10 million people ( 1.75 million are people with disabilities) with 4000 square miles; some counties have one CIL for a large city, and another for the non-city area of the county -- eg Camden NJ, Chicago IL; Massachusetts uses "Cities and Towns" designations to assign responsibility; and CILS which serve only tribal jurisdictions e.g the Navaho nation or the South Dakota's Indian reservations, overlap county lines.
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Research support by US Dept of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research grant #H133B030501. Opinions expressed reflect those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the funding agency. |