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Disability Services - Housing / Community Living
Missouri Centers for Independent Living (CIL)
Independent Living Centers are typically non-residential, private, non-profit, consumer-controlled, community-based organizations providing services and advocacy by and for persons with all types of disabilities. Their goal is to assist individuals with disabilities to achieve their maximum potential within their families and communities. Also, Independent Living Centers serve as a strong advocacy voice on a wide range of national, state and local issues. They work to assure physical and programmatic access to housing, employment, transportation, communities, recreational facilities, and health and social services. These are just a few of the services offered.
Department of Mental Health - Division of MRDD
The division improves the lives of persons with developmental disabilities through programs and services to enable those persons to live independently, productively and safely, and in the most integrated living arrangements possible. The eleven Regional Centers serve as the entry point into the developmental disability service system. Those determined eligible are given a case manager who works with the person and or families/guardian to make appropriate community connections for supports needed.
Department of Health and Senior Services
The section for Senior Services provides home and community based services adults with disabilities age 18 to 59, and eligible persons 60 and over, in order for them to remain independent and safe in their communities. In addition, the Physical Disabilities Waiver provides home and community-based services to a limited number of individuals with serious and complex medical needs who have reached the age of 21 and are no longer eligible to receive these services through the HCY program.
Senate Bill 40 Boards
Senate Bill 40 Boards fund services for individuals with developmental disabilities and mental retardation in 74 counties in Missouri. These counties have enacted legislation establishing the boards. The organizational structure of each Senate Bill 40 Board is different. Some Boards provide direct services, some provide funds to community agencies to provide services, and some Boards provide both direct services and funds to community agencies.
Home of Your Own
The home of your own initiative is a grass roots initiative to help people with developmental (and other) disabilities own or control their own housing. It can include personalized support. The initiative's goal is to create an infrastructure of exemplary practices and public and private sector partnerships which link the home mortgage and social services industries to better serve people with disabilities.
Coalition for Independence (CFI)
CFI’s Independent Living Specialists are available to help any person with a disability acquire the skills needed to live as independently as possible in the greater community and not be confined to a nursing home or other institution. Independent living skills training can be provided on everything from budgeting to accessing public transportation to seeking more education.
Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act, as amended in 1988, prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, and national origin. Its coverage includes private housing, housing that receives Federal financial assistance, and State and local government housing. The Fair Housing Act requires owners of housing facilities to make reasonable exceptions in their policies and operations to afford people with disabilities equal housing opportunities.
Governor’s Council on Disability
Information from the Governor’s Council on Disability about the Olmstead decision. The Supreme Court decision asks states to demonstrate that a comprehensive, effectively working plan for placing qualified people with disabilities in the least restrictive setting appropriate to their needs is in place. Olmstead also requires states to maintain a waiting list that moves at a reasonable pace which is not controlled by state endeavors to keep its institutions fully populated.
A Guidebook on Consumer Controlled Housing
A guidebook on consumer controlled housing (housing arranged with the needs and preferences of the consumer in the forefront, rather than the needs and preferences of the service provider or service funder); A joint publication of Arc Minnesota and the Research and Training Center on Community Living Institute on Community Integration (UAP) University of Minnesota.
The Center for Universal Design
The Center for Universal Design is a national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products.
