Summary

Center For Independence Inc. received a $322,115 formula grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (ACL) under the ACL Centers for Independent Living program (CFDA 93.432), awarded September 30, 2025, with performance through September 29, 2027. The award supports a statewide network of centers for independent living serving individuals with significant disabilities across Colorado. The organization delivers five core independent living services: information and referral, independent living skills training, peer counseling, individual and systems advocacy, and transition assistance from institutional to community-based living settings.

As a consumer-controlled, community-based nonprofit organization, Center For Independence Inc. provides services designed to empower individuals with disabilities to achieve maximum independence, self-sufficiency, and full community integration. The organization maintains a governance structure with a majority of board and key staff members having significant disabilities themselves, consistent with the cross-disability, nonresidential standards of the Centers for Independent Living program under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This award represents continued federal support for the organization's established service delivery capacity, consistent with the statutory priority to maintain funding for existing compliant centers within state allotments determined by population-based formulas.