MISSION
STATEMENT
The Lane Independent Living Alliance ("LILA") is a consumer-controlled
organization serving persons
with a range of disabilities in Lane County, Oregon. Our mission is
to enhance options which maximize independent living.
LILA
Bylaws
HISTORY
The Lane Independent Living Alliance (LILA) is a cross-disability, consumer-controlled
organization operating a center for independent living (CIL). A CIL,
LILA's Board hypothesizes, empowers people with disabilities, develops
their leadership skills and organizes them around a variety of issues
crucial to their lives. The Lane Independent Living Alliance (LILA)
addresses the significant accessibility, housing, employment, civil
rights, voting rights, recreational and other issues faced by community
residents with disabilities. With support from OODH , a group of more
than fifteen leaders with disabilities secured grant funding from the
State Independent Living Council (SILC) for grassroots organizational
efforts. Thanks to grant funding, the grassroots group opened a CIL
on the first floor of the Atrium Building in downtown Eugene.
LILA has secured grant funds from the archdiocesan and national Catholic
Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) to organize persons with disabilities
in electoral and decision-making processes. LILA has become a county
and statewide leader in efforts to make the State’s voting system
more accessible. Since Oregon is the only state with a vote-by-mail
system, the state is in a unique position to ensure greater access to
the electoral system for citizens with disabilities.
LILA is expanding its own base as a cross-disability, multi-issue organization
involving Lane County and the disability community. Assuring that persons
with disabilities direct the activities which affect them is among LILA
core values. More than 51% of members of the LILA Board will always
be persons with disabilities. Further, a majority of LILA Board and
decision makers will be low income.
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LILA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Eugene Organ
President
Gene is the former Executive Director of the Oregon Disabilities Commission.
He has chaired the National Association of Governors' Committees for
People with Disabilities. He also served on the President’s Committee
for the Employment of People with Disabilities. He is currently on the
board of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, Inc. (SVDP)
and the Eugene Sister City Foundation board of directors.
Bruce Barney
Vice President
Bruce
is a Registered Nurse who has worked in rehabilitative medicine, geriatrics
and mental health for 15 years. He has worked for the Center for Independent
Living in Berkeley, CA and the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Northern
California. He heads the Eugene Chapter of the Tetra Society of North
America.
Gweneth van Frank Carlson
Secretary
Gweneth
van Frank Carlson is an educator and entertainer, using singing, dance
and drama as organizing tools. She is currently spearheading Save Oregon
Services Alliance (SOSA), which is involved with the statewide effort
to restore funding for services for disabled Oregonians.
Anthony
Borelli
Treasurer
For the past 15
years Anthony has been a Personal Assistant for the elderly and individuals
with disabilities, and Personal Growth Coach. He has worked as a Psychiatric
Technician Assistant and A teachers assistant at Camarillo State Hospital
in Camarillo, CA. He was also a Co-founder of a youth organization in
Oxnard, CA.
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