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...

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...

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.