Virginia Administrative Code › Title 22 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT FOR AGING AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES › Chapter 30 - PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING REHABILITATION SERVICES › Part II - Centers For Independent Living (CIL) Program › Section 22VAC30-30-191 - Compliance indicators

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. The
				  compliance indicators establish the activities that a center for independent
				  living shall carry out to demonstrate minimum compliance with the evaluation
				  standards in
				  22VAC30-30-181. If a center fails
				  to satisfy any one of the indicators, the center is out of compliance with the
				  evaluation standards.
B. To be
				  eligible to receive a continuation award for the third or any subsequent year
				  of a grant, a center shall have complied fully during the previous project year
				  with all of the terms and conditions of its grant; provide adequate evidence in
				  its most recent annual performance report that the center is in minimum
				  compliance with the evaluation standards in
				  22VAC30-30-181, and meets the
				  requirements in 34 CFR Part 366. If a recipient receives funding for more than
				  one center, each individual center shall meet these requirements.
C. Evidence a center must present to
				  demonstrate that it is in minimum compliance with the evaluation standards is:
1. Compliance indicator 1, Philosophy. The
				  center shall provide evidence in its most recent annual performance report
				  that:
a. Individuals with significant
				  disabilities constitute more than 50% of the center's governing
				  board;
b. Individuals with
				  disabilities constitute more than 50% of the center's employees in
				  decision-making positions and employees in staff positions. A center may
				  exclude personal assistants, readers, drivers, and interpreters employed by the
				  center from this requirement. The determination that over 50% of a center's
				  employees in decision-making and staff positions are individuals with
				  disabilities must be based on the total number of hours (excluding any
				  overtime) for which employees are actually paid during the last six-month
				  period covered by the center's most recent annual performance report. However,
				  a center must include in this determination its employees who are on unpaid
				  family or maternity leave during this six-month period;
c. The center promotes self-help and
				  self-advocacy among individuals with significant disabilities (e.g., by
				  conducting activities to train individuals with significant disabilities in
				  self-advocacy);
d. The center
				  promotes the development of peer relationships and peer role models among
				  individuals with significant disabilities (e.g., by using individuals with
				  significant disabilities who have achieved IL goals (whether the goals were
				  achieved independently or through assistance and services provided by a center)
				  as instructors (volunteer or paid) in its training programs or as peer
				  counselors);
e. The center ensures
				  equal access of individuals with significant disabilities, including
				  communication and physical access, to the center's services, programs,
				  activities, resources, and facilities, whether publicly or privately funded.
				  Equal access, for purposes of this subdivision, means that the same access is
				  provided to any individual with a significant disability regardless of the
				  individual's type of significant disability;
f. The center advocates for and conducts
				  activities that promote the equal access to all services, programs, activities,
				  resources, and facilities in society, whether public or private, and regardless
				  of funding source, for individuals with significant disabilities; and
g. The center makes available in alternative
				  formats, as appropriate, all of its written policies and materials and IL
				  services.