{"id":73342,"date":"2016-09-21T17:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73342"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:12:04","slug":"resource-center-for-independent-living-receives-funding-for-statewide-systems-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73342","title":{"rendered":"Resource Center for Independent Living receives funding for statewide systems advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=71911\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71911\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-71911\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rcil-300x113.png?resize=300%2C113\" alt=\"rcil\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rcil.png?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rcil.png?resize=150%2C56&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rcil.png?resize=400%2C150&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rcil.png?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Resource Center for Independent Living is pleased to\u00a0announce it has received a $90,000, 3-year grant from the New York State Education Department to\u00a0participate in the Statewide Systems Advocacy Network. Fifteen Independent Living Centers\u00a0across the state receive this funding to support their collaborative efforts to advocate for priority\u00a0issues that lead to improvement in the lives of individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The SSAN is coordinated by the New York Association of Independent Living Centers and strives to\u00a0raise awareness <!--more-->about the concerns of individuals with disabilities and to increase accessibility for\u00a0everyone. This network of organizations reaches every corner of New York State and works tirelessly\u00a0to keep the need for basic civil rights for all residents of the state in the forefront of local and\u00a0statewide plans.<\/p>\n<p>The primary goal of all Independent Living Centers is to support the rights of individuals with disabilities to live their lives as they choose and avoid unnecessary or premature institutionalization.<\/p>\n<p>It is crucial that individuals with disabilities are included in all endeavors to ensure full accessibility and\u00a0participation for all New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>More information about RCIL\u2019s advocacy services is available at www.rcil.com\/programs\/advocacy or\u00a0by calling RCIL at 315-797- 4642.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Resource Center for Independent Living is pleased to\u00a0announce it has received a $90,000, 3-year grant from the New York State Education Department to\u00a0participate in the Statewide Systems Advocacy Network. Fifteen Independent Living Centers\u00a0across the state receive this funding to support their collaborative efforts to advocate for priority\u00a0issues that lead to improvement in the lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-j4W","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rcil.png?fit=480%2C180&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}