ILO News & Updates

Thursday, February 23, 2017 Hello everyone, and welcome back to our blog this week! Today, we would like to take the opportunity to congratulate Debbie Fickenscher on the recent release of her book, The Right to a Full Life. Debbie and her family are an important part...

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Written by Barbara Goldschmidt A valentine is not instructions. Or an essay with footnotes. A valentine is an emotional message that tells someone you care. But it’s not easy to express how we feel, even when we want to, so we often get...

Thursday, February 2, 2017 As parents of individuals with disabilities, we all worry for the future of our children. We are united in our anxiety about what will happen to our family members with disabilities when we are gone. And, as a community of parents of...

Friday, January 20, 2017 Hello everyone and welcome back to our blog this week! Thank you all for taking the time to visit our website today. 2016 was a huge year for Integrated Living Opportunities (ILO). As we mentioned in our Year In Review blog, we achieved many...

Thursday, January 5, 2017 Hello everyone, and welcome back to our blog! Thanks for taking the time to visit our website today. A few months ago, we came across a touching open letter titled, A Letter to my Autistic Son about Where You Will Live as an Adult, written by...

Thursday, December 29, 2016 Hello everyone, and welcome to our blog today! From all of us here at Integrated Living Opportunities (ILO), Happy Holidays! We hope that you are enjoying a relaxing and joyous holiday season with family and friends. As the past year draws...

Thursday, December 15, 2016 Hello everyone and welcome back to our blog today! We appreciate you taking time out of busy schedules to visit our website. At ILO, our board members, participating families and self-advocates all recognize the importance of employment in...

Integrated Living Opportunities has one mission: to help our adult self-advocates with significant challenges (along with their families) build intentional, integrated, inclusive communities. It is our goal that these communities enable safe, productive, and...

Thursday, December 1, 2016 Hello everyone, and thanks for visiting our blog today. We are very excited and proud to share with you our incredible news: as of November 19th, 4 more ILO self-advocates (with the support of their family members as well as ILO staff and...

Saturday, November 26, 2016 Hello everyone, and welcome back to our blog this week! We appreciate that you have taken the time to visit our website today. The last year and a half has been trying for the American people. The 2016 presidential election was a...