The May 1, 2026 SILC Survey Committee meeting focused on refining the council’s two survey instruments ahead of the next State Plan for Independent Living. The collected documents are the meeting agenda plus drafts of the two-minute mini-survey, the full Community Needs Assessment, and a summary explaining how the assessment was redesigned.
Meeting Documents
- 5.1.26 SILC Survey Committee Agenda for Statewide Independent Living Council Survey Committee Meeting
Brief agenda for the one-hour Survey Committee meeting (1-2pm) at Hub Coworking Hawaii and via Zoom. The substantive items are reviewing the mini-survey and reviewing the draft Community Needs Assessment to provide feedback, followed by standard public comment and adjournment. The rest is boilerplate participation, accessibility, and testimony instructions.
- DRAFT SILC Mini Survey for Statewide Independent Living Council Survey Committee Meeting
A short, plain-language Independent Living mini-survey designed for quick completion at tabling events. It asks who is filling it out (self, family/caregiver, advocate, or provider), which needed services are not being received (rights, emergencies, benefits, social, work, school, housing, transportation), why services are lacking, how hard help is to get, which Hawaiʻi county the respondent lives in, and optional contact information and comments.
- DRAFT Hawaii SILC Community Needs Assessment for Statewide Independent Living Council Survey Committee Meeting
The full draft Community Needs Assessment (10-15 minutes) intended to guide the next SPIL, written in plain language with a glossary for CIL, SILC, and SPIL. It spans ten sections covering respondent demographics and disability type, a 26-service two-lens rating of what helps the individual versus what the community needs, barriers in housing/transportation/daily life with intensity ratings, ability to meet daily needs, open-ended values and improvement questions, advocacy participation, preferred communication channels and workshop/event interests, and a legislative-priorities rating section (Medicaid expansion, guardianship reform, HCBS, housing, transportation, disaster preparedness, voting rights, and more).
- Hawaii SILC Survey Redesign Summary for Statewide Independent Living Council Survey Committee Meeting
A summary explaining how the Community Needs Assessment was redesigned by combining the strongest parts of Hawaii's existing survey with proven elements from the California SILC survey. It tabulates what was kept (island question, full 26-service list, daily-needs grid, workshop/event/legislative sections), what was adopted from California (disability-type question, two-lens YOU-vs-COMMUNITY framing, barriers with intensity ratings, plain-language rewrite at a 6th-grade level, glossary), and new Hawaii-specific additions (inter-island travel barriers, rural access, cultural/language responsiveness, disaster preparedness, talk-story sessions, ʻokina place names). Key design decisions emphasize plain language, a wide audience beyond just people with disabilities, and accessibility by design.
