The Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc. (LICIL)
LICIL Workshops and Events for Fall 2025
As the evenings become crisp and leaves begin to fall, check out what we've got in store! EMERGENCY HOUSING FOR FAMILIES: presented by Marc Ross Miller, Ph.D., Director of Housing Guest Speaker: Evol Sweeney, of New Ground, whose focus is on breaking the cycle of homelessness. New York State...
Participants Needed for Health-Related Needs Survey
Please consider supporting the work of our colleagues from the School of Health Sciences at Hofstra University by sharing your opinions about health-related needs on Long Island. If you would like to fill out the survey, any information you share will not be shared with anyone and kept private....
Joint Action Alert: Protect the Programs That Support Our Community
Contact your Members of Congress today. Tell them you support:
The Independent Living Program
The University Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.,
Projects of National Significance
Limb Loss Resource Center
Paralysis Resource Center
State Developmental Disabilities Councils
Protection & Advocacy for Voting Accessibility (PAVA)
Protection & Advocacy (P&A) for Individual Rights (PAIR)
Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) and Client Assistance Program
Tell Congress these programs must be preserved and fully funded, not restructured or sacrificed.
Take Action Now.
https://ncil.org/advocacy-action/?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f129064%2fRespond
You’re Invited: Share Your Voice in New York’s Olmstead Listening Sessions
Via Olmstead Plan NY:
New York State is working on a new Olmstead Plan — a plan that helps make sure people with disabilities can live in the community they choose, with the support they need.
To help shape this work, we’re hosting nine virtual listening sessions, and we want to hear from you.
Medicaid Matters New York Condemns Passage of Rushed, Inhumane Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill
July 3, 2025 – A budget is a moral document, creating the framework for how a government will provide public services. H.R. 1, which Republican leaders have dubbed “beautiful,” is anything but beautiful for people with low income and people with disabilities who need health coverage. It will strip affordable health insurance coverage away from millions of Americans who don’t have other coverage, including 1.5 million people here in New York.
Action Alert: Fight Federal Threats to Medicaid and the ACA
BREAKING: New Yorkers would make up over 10 percent (1.5 million) of the 16 million Americans at risk of becoming uninsured due to federal threats to Medicaid and the ACA. But there’s still time to fight back. Act now!
ABOUT LICIL
We are a not-for-profit, non-residential advocacy center controlled by and serving persons with disabilities. Since its opening in 1980, LICIL has worked with thousands of Long Islanders with disabilities and their families and has also been a unique resource for other professionals who provide disability related services. Our Center’s mission is to promote empowerment through education, information and rallying behind issues that directly impact the daily lives of persons with disabilities. LICIL effectively serves people of all ages and across all disability experiences, whether lifelong or acquired. Learn more about LICIL
Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc.
3601 Hempstead Turnpike, Suite 500
Levittown, NY 11756
The Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc.
is a non-for-profit organization established in 1980.
TEL: 516-796-0144 En Español: 516-796-6176
TTY: 516-796-0135 Fax: 516-796-0529 / 516-520-1247
E-MAIL: info@licilinc.org
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