[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR366.60]

[Page 374-375]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
            REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 366--CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart G--Evaluation Standards and Compliance Indicators
 
Sec.  366.60  What are the project evaluation standards?

    Source: 60 FR 39221, Aug. 1, 1995, unless otherwise noted.


    To be eligible to receive funds under this part, an applicant must 
agree to comply with the following evaluation standards:
    (a) Evaluation standard 1--Philosophy. The center shall promote and 
practice the IL philosophy of--
    (1) Consumer control of the center regarding decisionmaking, service 
delivery, management, and establishment of the policy and direction of 
the center;
    (2) Self-help and self-advocacy;
    (3) Development of peer relationships and peer role models;
    (4) Equal access of individuals with significant disabilities to all 
of the center's services, programs, activities, resources, and 
facilities, whether publicly or privately funded, without regard to the 
type of significant disability of the individual; and
    (5) Promoting equal access of individuals with significant 
disabilities to all services, programs, activities, resources, and 
facilities in society, whether public or private, and regardless of 
funding source, on the same basis that access is provided to other

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individuals with disabilities and to individuals without disabilities.
    (b) Evaluation standard 2--Provision of services. (1) The center 
shall provide IL services to individuals with a range of significant 
disabilities.
    (2) The center shall provide IL services on a cross-disability basis 
(i.e., for individuals with all different types of significant 
disabilities, including individuals with significant disabilities who 
are members of populations that are unserved or underserved by programs 
under title VII of this Act).
    (3) The center shall determine eligibility for IL services. The 
center may not base eligibility on the presence of any one specific 
significant disability.
    (c) Evaluation standard 3--Independent living goals. The center 
shall facilitate the development and achievement of IL goals selected by 
individuals with significant disabilities who seek assistance in the 
development and achievement of IL goals from the center.
    (d) Evaluation standard 4--Community options. The center shall 
conduct activities to increase the availability and improve the quality 
of community options for IL to facilitate the development and 
achievement of IL goals by individuals with significant disabilities.
    (e) Evaluation standard 5--Independent living core services. The 
center shall provide IL core services and, as appropriate, a combination 
of any other IL services specified in section 7(30)(B) of the Act.
    (f) Evaluation standard 6--Activities to increase community 
capacity. The center shall conduct activities to increase the capacity 
of communities within the service area of the center to meet the needs 
of individuals with significant disabilities.
    (g) Evaluation standard 7--Resource development activities. The 
center shall conduct resource development activities to obtain funding 
from sources other than chapter 1 of title VII of the Act.

(Authority: 29 U.S.C. 796f-4)