In the Loop
Keeping pace with the world of Disability, one blog post at a time
Federal RIF Threatens Essential Disability Protections, Services
These layoffs reverse decades of progress in disability rights and put the health, stability, and welfare of millions at risk.
Click/copy the link below to tell the White House that you oppose these RIFs and demand that essential positions be restored immediately.
https://aapd.quorum.us/campaign/144743/?utm_source=Main+AAPD+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=b3877092ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_15_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-afb89cbdef-4877585
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...
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.
Sign up for Barnard College Disability Benefits Research Study
Join a study about people who live in New York and are “on disability”, led by undergraduate thesis student Myriam Joseph-Schilz (msj2155@barnard.edu). I’m looking to center people’s own narratives of their experiences with disability benefits programs, and the decisions they make through, after, and beyond their application processes, in order to highlight a perspective often overlooked in academic research.
Nassau Aviators Want You For Summer Sports!
Looking for a new sport for summer? Join our friends from Aviators of Nassau County Wheelchair Softball for fun opportunities in softball and a variety of other sports. Check out the deets:
Beginning May 1, 2023
Mondays @ 5:30 pm
Eisenhower Park, East Meadow
Parking Field 4
LICIL to Host Comedy Night Fundraiser
Join the Long Island Center for ndependent Living, Inc for our Spring Comedy Night Fundraiser! Get ready to meet old friends, make new ones and share laughs and good times for a great cause! Place: GOVERNOR’S Of Levittown -- 90 Division Ave., Levittown, NY 11756 Date:...
Nassau PWD: Share Your Point of View On Accessibility at UBS Arena Transit Hub!
PWD in Nassau County: Share Your Point of View On Accessibility at UBS Arena Transit Hub!
To participate, contact Ken Thompson — kthompson@easterseals.com.
LICIL Partners with Stony Brook and BLG to Offer Accessible Mobile Mammography
ACCESSIBLE Mobile Mammography Van for Breast Cancer Screenings
Brought to you by the Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc. (LICIL) and the Bell Law Group
Presidential Debates 2020: Stay Informed and VOTE!
Presidential Debate happens tonight @ 9 PM ET.
American Association of People with Disabilities
provides helpful background here.
#RevUp and #CripTheVote
Downstate NY ADAPT
201 S. Cherokee, Denver, CO 80223
Tel: 303-733-9324
Website: www.adapt.org
American Association of People with Disabilities-AAPD
1629 K Street N.W. Suite 503, Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 800-840-8844/202-457-0046
Fax: 202-457-0473
TTY: 800-840-8844/202-457-0046
E-mail: aapd@aol.com
Website: www.aapd-dc.org
Consumer Link
16 Main Street, Hempstead, NY 11550
Tel: 516-489-0100
Fax: 516-485-4314
DRIVE- Disabled Rights Initiative for Voter Empowerment- A LICIL Initiative
3601 Hempstead Tpk, Suite 500, Hempstead, NY 11756
Tel: 516-796-0144
Fax: 516-520-1247
Website: www.licil.net
Early Childhood Direction Center (Info & Options)
47 Humphrey Drive, Syosset, NY 11791
Tel: 516-364-8580
Fax: 516-496-4958
E-mail: nassauecdc@vclc.org
Website: www.vclc.org
Family and Children Association
100 East Old Country Rd., Mineola, NY 11501
Tel: 516-746-0350
Fax: 516-294-0198
ILRU- Independent Living Research Utilization
2323 South Shepherd, Suite 1000, Houston, TX 77019
Tel: 713-520-0232
Fax: 713-520-5785
TTY: 713-520-0232
E-mail: ilru@ilru.org
Website: www.ilru.org
Long Island Advocacy Center
999 Herricks Rd., New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Tel: 516-248-2222
Fax: 516-248-2290
Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc. (LICIL)
3601 Hempstead Tpk., Suite 208, Levittown, NY 11756
Tel: 516-796-0144
Fax: 516-796-0529
TTY: 516-796-0135
E-mail: licil@aol.com
Website: www.licil.net
NAMI Queens/Nassau National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
1981 Marcus Avenue, Suite C 117, Lake Success, NY 11042
Tel: 516-326-0797 / 718-347-7284
Fax: 516-437-5785
NARPA-National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
P.O. Box 4058, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
Tel: 205-464-0101
Website: www.narpa.org
National Amputation Foundation
40 Church Street, Malverne, NY 11565
Tel: 516-887-3600
Fax: 516-887-3667
E-mail: amps76@aol.com
New York Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for persons w/ Disabilities
401 State Street, Schenectady, NY 12305
Tel: 518-388-2892
Fax: 518-388-2890
TTY: 800-624-4143
E-mail: webmaster@cqc.state.ny.us
Website: www.cqc.state.ny.us
New York State Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Inc
1 Columbia Place, 2nd Floor, Albany, NY 12207
Tel: 518-436-0008
Fax: 518-436-0044
Website: www.nyaprs.org
The Health & Welfare Council of Long Island
150 Broadhollow Road, Suite 118
Melville, NY 11747
Tel: 516-483-1110
Fax: 516-483-4794
Website: www.hwcli.com
Through the Looking Glass
2198 6th Street # 100, Berkeley, CA 94710
Tel: 800-644-2666
Fax: 510-848-4445
TTY: 800-804-1616
E-mail: hg@lookingglass.org
Website: www.lookingglass.org
United Spinal Association
75-20 Astoria Blvd., Jackson Heights, NY 11370
Tel: 718-803-3782
Fax: 718-803-0414
Website: www.unitedspinal.org
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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