Learn About INSILC
Individuals with significant disabilities should have the same civil rights, choices, options, and control over choices in their own lives as do individuals without disabilities.
Calling all Hoosiers of Indiana’s Disability, Deaf, Blind, DeafBlind, Aging, Mental Health, Intellectual / Developmental Disability, Neurodiverse, and other diverse communities!
Are you ready to put your leadership skills and lived experience into action? The Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council (INSILC) seeks leaders with diverse disabilities and are from marginalized communities, believe in disability justice, and interested in learning in depth about opportunities to serve on the INSILC council.
Our Vision
Lead an effective statewide independent living movement resulting in people with disabilities living without barriers, fully integrated in society.
Our Mission
To empower our peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Our Values
INSILC is committed to a culture that consists of following core values: Independence, Equality, Integration, Choice, Freedom, Control, and Integrity.
INSILC Duties
- Develop the State Plan for Independent Living (SPIL) in partnership with the Indiana Centers for Independent Living.
- Review, monitor and evaluate the implementation of the SPIL
- Meet regularly and ensure such meetings are accessible and open to the public
- Submit periodic reports to the Administrator of the Administration on Community Living (ACL)
- Coordinate independent living activities with other state entities and organizations that provide services similar to or complementary to independent living services
INSILC Authorities
As described in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Work with Centers for Independent Living to coordinate services with public and private entities to improve services provided to individuals with disabilities
- Conduct resource development activities to support the activities described in the approved SPIL and/or provision of independent living services by Centers for Independent Living
- Perform other such functions that promote a philosophy of Independent Living and promote the integration and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the mainstream of American society and furthers the purpose of the Rehabilitation Act, as the Council determines to be appropriate
Meet The Council
Get to know the awesome team at INSILC! We're a group of people who care a lot about making sure folks with disabilities in Indiana have their voices heard. We come from different backgrounds but share a goal of including everyone and making things better.
Executive Team
Council Members
Abagail Fleenor
Past Chair
Afleenor@indianasilc.org
Ann Barnhart
Board Member
Abarnhart@indianasilc.org
Halie Brown
Board Member
HBrown@indianasilc.org
Linda Greeno
Board Member
Lgreeno@indianasilc.org
Laura Kitterman
Board Member
Lkitterman@indianasilc.org
Gary Olsen
Board Member
Golsen@indianasilc.org
Christina Trimnell
Board Member
Ctrimnell@indianasilc.org
Catherine Vest
Board Member
Cvest@indianasilc.org
Ex-Officio
INSILC Council Membership Opportunities
INSILC is a statewide disability advocacy nonprofit organization – directed, led and operated by Hoosier leaders with disabilities. These leaders consist of, but are not limited to, our peers with physical / mobility disabilities, intellectual / developmental disabilities, mental health disabilities, conditions of aging and our peers who are Deaf, Blind, Neurodiverse, etc. INSILC is driven by the Independent Living Philosophy, which emphasizes that as people with disabilities, we have crucial and valuable perspective to contribute to society and should have the same meaningful opportunities, choices, freedoms and liberties as individuals without disabilities.
The Council operates as a 501c3 nonprofit organization and federally-required state entity that is mandated to be independent and autonomous from the state and the Indiana Centers for Independent Living. Council Members are appointed by the Governor for three-year terms. Candidates selected for appointment to INSILC by the Governor must have significant knowledge and understanding of the independent philosophy, a dedication to disability justice and a commitment to prioritize what is in the best of the Council and its Hoosier peers with disabilities. INSILC recognizes that the Indiana Disability, Deaf, Blind, Aging, Mental Health, Intellectual / Developmental Disability, Neurodiverse, etc. communities all intersect with other marginalized communities and the vital importance of centering their voices and experiences. As such, empowering our peers from these communities with varying and intersecting layers of lived experience and marginalization is critical to the work of our organization. While many new members with disabilities with these intersecting marginalized identities have been appointed to INSILC within the last few years, the Council is still missing many other marginalized voices. Therefore, INSILC continues to prioritize and push for future Governor appointments to include these missing peer voices.
To learn more about INSILC and its Council Membership opportunities, please contact info@insilc.org
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