The Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council (ICOIL) is supposed to be empowering people with disabilities, but it has done the opposite.  See for yourself what has been happening with the Indiana SILC visit these resources.

Useful Resources about ICOIL found on the onecandream site

• The Secretary's Chronicles - The People's Secretary (a former Council Secretary) documents Indiana SILC corruption and fraud chronologically -- providing links to evidence, documents and supporting resources.
• The Secretary's Chronicles Documents page
  
• Onecandream Audio archive  - Audio recordings and clips of actual meetings.
• Onecandream Dimenet archive - Directory of relevent articles posted on dimenet.
• Onecandream Community - Contains stories and downloads regarding ICOIL
• The Onecandream blog
  

Other Important Reads:

• Empowerment Hell - A True Story - about Jodi James and my experience with the Indiana SILC council known as ICOIL
• Jodi James October 12, 2006 Statement to ICOIL -A call from Jodi James for the end of corruption and true empowerment of people with disabilities.  Updated with New Information: November, 27 2009.

Offsite ICOIL resources

• ICOIL video Archive
  
• Dimenet
  
• Report Of Findings, Kathleen P. Kleinmann - relevent because the Indiana SILC still has the same problems and has not addressed the issues in these findings.

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All States have a Statewide Independent Living Council that is supposed to be made up of a majority of people with disabilities who are not working for a CIL or representing the state.  In Indiana the council has not even met basic membership requirements.

Instead individuals who have direct fiscal conflicts of interest such as CIL directors and those seeking a CIL have used positions on the council not to ensure the best interests of people with disabilities in Indiana, but rather to ensure their own security by using their positions to make sure they get funding and to keep information such as what money is actually being spent on from being discussed.

The council works hard to keep their activities hidden from the public in Indiana -- they go out of their way to ensure that people do not know what is going on.

Latest news

A call from Jodi James for the end of corruption and true empowerment of people with disabilities.  Updated with New Information: November, 27 2009.