The May 15, 2026 Survey Committee meeting to review version 2 of Hawaii’s own community needs assessment. The documents are the meeting agenda, the v2 draft survey itself, and a summary of changes made from the prior draft.
Meeting Documents
- 5.15.26 SILC Survey Committee Agenda for Statewide Independent Living Council Survey Committee Meeting
Brief agenda for the May 15, 2026 Survey Committee meeting (2:30-3:30 p.m., Hub Coworking Hawaii Board Room and Zoom). The substantive agenda item is reviewing the version 2 draft community needs assessment and providing feedback; remaining items are standard call to order, roll call/quorum, purpose review, public comment, and adjournment, with the usual accessibility and public-testimony boilerplate.
- V2 DRAFT Hawaii SILC Community Needs Assessment v2 for Statewide Independent Living Council Survey Committee Meeting
Version 2 of Hawaii's own plain-language Community Needs Assessment survey (about 10-15 minutes to complete) to guide the next SPIL. It has 11 sections: demographics (island, ZIP, age, role, race/ethnicity, preferred language, disability type, work/school status), helpfulness of CIL services to self and to community, barriers (housing, transportation, financial literacy, daily life/well-being), a new Section 5 on emergency preparedness and disaster response (referencing the Maui wildfires), meeting daily needs, open-ended thoughts, taking action, getting connected with SILC, legislative priorities (including Medicaid/Med-QUEST and Medicare), and an anything-else section. It is Hawaii-specific with detailed rating tables and inline definitions of services and key terms.
- V2 SILC Survey Changes Summary for Statewide Independent Living Council Survey Committee Meeting
A changelog documenting edits to the needs assessment made after the May 1, 2026 working group meeting (Amanda, Philip, Nani, Val, Roxanne). Key changes: added contact info and QR codes, new race/ethnicity and preferred-language questions, added 'environmental,' 'hidden/unseen,' and 'cognitive/intellectual' disability types, a brand-new Section 5 on emergency preparedness (shifting later sections down), a new financial literacy subsection, split healthcare into general vs. accessible, 'accessible air travel between islands' for Lanai/Molokai, and 'Protecting work incentives and benefits' under legislative priorities. Next steps note sending the draft to Kylie for accessibility/QR code review, identifying a data analyst (Lisa Grove and/or Dr. Megan Miller), and reviewing v2 on May 15.
