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STATE of CFILC

CFILC aims to increase access and equal opportunities for people with disabilities by building the capacity of Independent Living Centers. They are working on strategic plans, securing funding, and providing resources and training to ILC staff and board members.

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STATE of CFILC

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  1. Teresa Favuzzi, Executive Director 2016 Summer Statewide, Ontario STATE of CFILC

  2. WELCOME Increasing access and equal opportunity for people with disabilities by building the capacity of Independent Living Centers

  3. TRANSITIONS Last year at this time we had nearly 20% of the ILCs going through a leadership change Today we have just one still in transition

  4. WELCOME Sam Moore Resources for Independence Central Valley Fresno

  5. MEMBERSHIP 21 out of 28 ILCs 2016 Non-Members DRAIL Modesto, RIL Sacramento A2i San Diego, CIL Berkeley ILCSC, CALIF, SCRSIL Los Angeles

  6. STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE CFILC will develop and organize around policy that impact long-term funding for ILCs. • AB204 & New Funding Formula • Rehab Act Reauthorization CFILC will invest in the ILC workforce by developing and organizing ILC staff and board trainings in collaboration with ILCs w/expertise. • Develop a Business Plan – including profit, cost, feasibility, gaps analysis • Develop a Curriculum & Board to develop the curriculum and certification/re-certification • Explore how IL services can be evidence based. CFILC will explore long-term viability of maintaining a Peer Review System in California.

  7. DEVELOPMENT New: AT&T $5000 for DOnetwork and Ability Tools Conferences CalEndow $5000 for DOnetwork Conference The ARC of California $1000 DOnetwork Conference Modern Support Services $1000 DOnetwork Conference Southern CA Edison $5000 YO! stipends American Red Cross - $5000 AT/DME for wildfire survivors California Department of Education $25,000 for YO! CETF-Frontier $136,000 x 24 months Department of Rehabilitation $983,781– Ability Tools California Public Utilities Commission-$1.3 million x 18 months On the horizon: Department of Rehabilitation-DOnetwork Safeway-YO! Wells Fargo-FreedomTech

  8. FINANCES

  9. FINANCES Review of Financials Audit in process Working on Budget Revision

  10. Personnel Transitions: Kirk Aranda - Youth Organizer Ted Jackson - Organizing Director Eliminated Position: Kim Hogan - Digital Access Coordinator New Hire: Jackie Moura - Admin & Accounting Lisa Austin - Logistics Coordinator New Position: Caroline Zentner – Program Manager

  11. Technical Assistance Grants Executive Exploration – 3 Executive Mentorship – 4 Peer Review – 1 We had more requests than we could grant We do not anticipate future funding

  12. Interest rate is 6% reduced to 5.75% if borrower chooses automatic payments You can borrow $500 to 15,000 AT/DMEHome ModVehicle Mod Loan Fund $875,000 Loan Loss Reserve of $200k Annual Loan Cap$225k We may not exceed 32 loans annually We will next explore how to increase funds and capacity by becoming a CDFI

  13. PILOT PROGRAM Speech Generating Device Pilot Program Demonstration Pilot for CA Public Utilities Commission Phase 1 • Hire Staff • Develop contracts for 14 DLLs & AT Centers • Develop contract for 3rd party evaluation • Develop contract for software/hardware trainer • Develop logistics for training of demo centers • Purchase iPads & Apps • Develop brand and marketing • Launch October???

  14. We collaborated with SCE and reached out to 12,000 of their low-income customers primarily in the high desert • We have continued to collaborate with SMUD and reached out to over 150,000 of their customers through the Sacramento region • We completed our grant goals three months early • We are using call center software to take more live calls per day • We are making about a dozen adoptions per week, even without free hotspots • As of today we have made 2,645 adoptions • CETF paid CFILC an additional $42,000 for adoptions over our goal

  15. VOTE DISABILITY 2016 • 9 GOTV onsite trainings at ILCs • GOTV Conference 100 participants • 9 states were represented at the conference • Vox Video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klgsXfgiSOY What NOW?

  16. Device Lending Libraries: 1599 loansby 11 device lending libraries Reuse: 1089 loans by 5 reuse centers Reuse Conference 60 participants from 7 states Meeting to discuss with multiple state entities Medicaid Reuse Programs in other states and what we can do in CA?

  17. We have 6 YO! volunteers with 3 new volunteers in the queue • We received 9 summer internship applications for our work with Add Us In • We hosted and co-hosted 3 YO! summits this year that brought together over 80 new youth to YO! • We have 4 YO! members attending the NCIL Conference 3 were awarded NCIL youth scholarships • A former YO! volunteer completed a two week Japan Exchange with the ILC and Japan Association • We have a YO! Volunteer who was accepted to the ADAPT Youth Training in NY on a full scholarship • 16 YO! youth attend the GOTV Conference in Pasadena • Our next youth summit is in collaboration with IEHP in San Bernardino • Then a collaboration with CA Family Voices on a Family & Youth Transition Conference • Finally we are collaborating with the Transition Alliance Conference to do a youth track on IL

  18. QUESTIONS?

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