Independent Living Choices

Contact Person: Lisa Peterson, Program Director

Agency Name or Parent Company: Independent Living Choices

Name of Home Modification Program / Resource: Independent Living Choices

Address: 4107 S. Carnegie Circle, Sioux Falls, SD 57106

Email Address: i-l-c@ilcchoices.org

Phone Number: 605-362-3550

Homepage/Website: ilcchoices.org

Established: 1982

Partnerships: Other non profits and Medicaid Waivers

Target Population: Persons with disabilities

No. of Persons Served/Year: 2500

No. of Paid Staff: 23

Services Provided:

• Minor home modifications (e.g., grab bars, raised toilet seats, handheld showers, handrails, lever door handles)
• Major home modifications (e.g., remodel bathrooms, adjust counter/cabinet heights, ramps, elevator/platform or chair lifts, widen doorways, roll-in showers)
• Home assessments
• Raise consumer and/or professional awareness
• Advocacy for home modification policies and funding
• Integrate home modification or repairs within existing home and community-based and/or long-term care programs
• Partners with state or local non-profit home modification programs (e.g., Rebuilding Together, Habitat for Humanity, etc...)

Funding Source(s):

• Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver
• City/County Housing and Community Development Department (e.g., Community Development Block Grants, HOME Block Grants)
• State Funded In-Home Service Program
• Fundraising
• Grant funds

Is your organization Non-Profit?: yes