State Plan Comments

2025 -2027 State Plan for Independent Living

Background

The North Carolina Statewide Independent Living Council (NC SILC) works with the NC Centers for Independent Living (NC CILs) to create the State Plan for Independent Living (SPIL). The SPIL is a three-year plan that gives the SILC and CILs goals to work on together to improve services and the community.

This draft of the SPIL is ready for public comment and must be finished and submitted to ACL by June 30, 2024.

When approved, the SPIL will be active on October 1, 2024 and end September 30, 2027.

Summary

The NC SILC started the process of developing the SPIL with forums for people to provide input on different topics that are important to the disability community. There were also surveys and data collection done at this time.

The NC SILC and NC CILS created a SPIL workgroup to review the information and write the language for the SPIL. After the workgroup provided direction and input, the SILC staff assembled the needed information and documents to create the SPIL draft.

The SPIL draft will now be up for a 30-day comment period to ask for additional feedback. All feedback will be reviewed by the State Plan Committee.  Responses will be provided at the end of the Public Comment Period.  Any recommendations to make changes will be made to the SILC before voting to approve.  Comments should be emailed to [email protected]. ALL COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN JUNE 10, 2024. 

Once the SPIL has been approved and signed by the SILC and at least 51% of the NC CIL Directors,  the SPIL is sent to our DSE, which is the North Carolina Division of Employment and Independence for People with Disabilities (i.e Vocational Rehabilitation) to sign agreeing to continuing to be the Designated State Entity (DSE).
The final SPIL, with all signatures, is due to the Administration on Community Living (ACL) by June 30, 2024.

Download Updated Plan and Summary Notice:

Details in the SPIL by Section

Title Page and

  • This page gives the details of the date the SPIL starts, the State, and the federal funding included.

Executive Summary

  • This part gives you a summary of the SPIL. It lists the goals of the SPIL and gives a summary of the reason for all the sections.

Section 1: Goals, Objectives, and Activities

  • Section 1.1 – The Mission of the three-year plan.
  • Section 1.2 – The Goals of the three-year plan.
  • Section 1.3 – The Objectives and the specific work that will be done for the three-year plan.
  • Section 1.4 – The ways that the three-year plan will be reviewed.
  • Section 1.5 – The financial information for the three-year plan.

Section 2: Scope, Extent, and Arrangement of Services

 – Section 2.1 – The services that will be provided by CILs.

– Section 2.2 – The plans for outreach for the three-year plan

  – Section 2.3 – The plans to work together and with other organizations.

Section 3: Network of Centers

  • Section 3.1 – The list of the NC CILs, the funding they have, and the compliance they will follow.
  • Section 3.2 – This gives information on CIL funding, expansion, and other important details about the CILs.

Section 4: Designated State Entity (DSE)

  • Section 4.1 – The things the DSE will be doing.
  • Section 4.2 – The support the DSE will provide.
  • Section 4.3 – Rules from the State that need to be followed.
  • Section 4.4 – The way the DSE will give funding to CILs.
  • Section 4.5 – The way the DSE will review the CILs.
  • Section 4.6 – Affirms that North Carolina is a 722 state. This means that there is more federal funding than state funding for CILs.

 Section 5: Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC)

  • Section 5.1 – This gives information about the SILC and it’s structure.
  • Section 5.2 – This gives information about the SILC’s funding.
  • Section 5.3 – This gives information about how the SILC will keep working.

Section 6: Legal Basis and Certifications

  • Section 6.1 – Gives the information about the DSE.
  • Section 6.2 – Gives the information about the SILC.
  • Section 6.3 – Lists the CILs that can sign the SPIL.
  • Section 6.4 – This makes sure that everyone can work on the SPIL.

Section 7: DSE Assurances

  • This section gives the list of what the DSE is required to follow as the DSE.
  • The DSE (NC DEI) Director, Kathie Smith, will sign this agreeing to the information.

Section 8: SILC Assurances and Indicators of Minimum Compliance

  • This section gives the list of what the SILC will make sure it is doing to be the SILC.
  • The Chairperson of the SILC must sign agreeing to this.

Section 9: Signatures  

  • The Chairperson of the SILC and the CIL Directors sign here agreeing to work on the information in the Plan together.
  • The SILC must sign agreeing to work on the goals and the SPIL.
  • A majority (51%) of the CIL Directors must sign the SPIL for it to be sent for approval to ACL.

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