Services for Independent Living

RESCHEDULED - Connect with Conversation
2025-09-26 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | ZOOM
Due to scheduling conflicts, the Connect with Conversations Meeting scheduled for September 26, 2025, will now take place on October 3rd, 2025 from 11am-12pm via Zoom.

If you previously RSVP’d for the original date and will still attend on the new date, you do not need to RSVP again.

Topic – Budgeting for Fun and Necessities

RSVP to Maddi Steimle at 216.903.2469 or msteimle@sil-oh.org

Medicare and Medicaid Waivers Presentation
2025-09-25 10:30 | Middleburgh Heights Senior Center
Middleburgh Heights Senior Center

Young Adult Council
2025-09-24 17:00 - 18:30
Young Adult Council (YAC) is a statewide community led council for adults between the ages of 18 and 33 and who have a disability with a hands-on/internship approach that will provide young adults the opportunity to participate in a realistic policymaking environment.

Board Meeting
2025-09-23 00:00 - 23:59

March for Access!
2025-09-20 10:00 - 12:30
Join NOCDO for our 4th annual March for Access!

The March for Access will take place from 10 am – 12:30 pm on Saturday, September 20, (rain or shine). This is a FREE event.

March theme and purpose:

Accessible and inclusive transportation options. This is to honor and build on the 40th anniversary of the Cleveland Transportation Protests.

Schedule:

Saturday, September 20, 2025

10:00 am: Visit resource tables and make posters

11:00 am: Rally and March

12:00 pm: March photo and resource tables

Accessibility:

Masking encouraged

Captioning and ASL interpretation of rally

Wheelchair accessible restrooms and route

Wheelchair charging station

Location and Transportation:

Rally location: 127 Public Square, Cleveland

From 9:45 – 12:45 pm: Free parking and ADA shuttle transportation provided by Youth Challenge between County Board of Developmental Disability Lakeside parking lot and Public Square.

CCBDD parking lot address: 1275 Lakeside Avenue East, Cleveland OH 44114

Solon Wellness Fair
2025-09-17 09:00 - 13:00
Information Table

Closed
2025-09-01 00:00 - 23:59

Advocacy Day!
2025-07-26 10:00 - 15:00 | ZOOM
In honor of the ADA’s 35th Anniversary, SIL’s Young Adult Council would like to invite you to our first annual virtualAdvocacy Day!

Saturday July 26th, 202510:00 am – 3:00 pm

Advocacy Day Schedule

10:00 AMWelcomeElla Hanley10:15 AMWhat is AdvocacyJennifer Kucera11:15 AMBuilding relationships with legislators and the legislative processGina Wilt12:15 PMLunch break 12:45 PMPeople First of OhioMichael Richards1:30 PMHealth Care InequitiesEizabeth Brassell2:00 PMADA Title I Employment ProtectionApril Shaw2:30 PMClosing RemarksMichael Jung

We’d love to have you join us all day, but feel free to come by whenever it works best for you!

Register (opens email)

Please register via email to: ashaw@sil-oh.org(Zoom link will be emailed to you)

For more information on Advocacy Day, please contact April Shaw at ashaw@sil-oh.org or (216)389-2356

Download Flyer (pdf)

Young Adult Council is an amazing opportunity for young adults with disabilities to learn vital leadership skills, gain a host of new networking skills, increased knowledge, and confidence of how to appropriately bring forth systems change, and increased awareness of the policies affecting those of the disability community.

For more information on YAC please contact April Shaw-ashaw@sil-oh.org at 216.389-2356

Through Young Adult Council, Your Advocacy Counts!

Connect with Conversation
2025-07-18 11:00 - 12:00
Connect with Conversation is a new program offered through Services for Independent Living (SIL). Connect with Conversation will be a monthly Zoom meeting that will allow individuals with disabilities to connect with others wit lar experiences. Each month a topic will be discussed that is chosen by the group.

Join us for our next meeting on July 18th from 11:00-12:00pm via Zoom.

Topic: Open Discussion
