Caring & Sharing Center for Independent Living DBA Disability Achievement Center

What the center reported

1,443Consumers served921 carried over, 522 new
1,274Information and referral contacts
$1,579,576Total income
$65,163Part B
$334,773Part C
1,095Goals achievedof 1,883 set
13Moved out of institutionsrelocation goals achieved
8Years reportedof 8 since 2016

Funding sources

Income by source, report year 2023Dollars received, as reported. The report does not show expenditure.
Source	Amount
Title VII Part B (through the state)	$65,163
Title VII Part C (direct federal)	$334,773
Title VII Chapter 2 (older individuals who are blind)	$0
Other federal funds	$316,611
State government funds	$168,390
Local government funds	$0
Private and other	$694,639
Total income	$1,579,576

Eight years of reports

Caring & Sharing Center for Independent Living DBA Disability Achievement Center by report yearA blank row means no report was found for that year.
Report year	Consumers served	Total income	Part B	Part C	Moved out of institutions
2016	906	$1,088,873	$59,897	$242,120	3
2017	1,154	$983,551	$59,825	$245,381	3
2018	1,122	$853,875	$60,196	$280,231	0
2019	1,049	$886,592	$61,543	$291,726	2
2020	918	$1,069,666	$61,504	$292,569	1
2021	1,064	$967,757	$61,102	$293,749	5
2022	1,242	$1,166,232	$58,005	$303,755	1
2023	1,443	$1,579,576	$65,163	$334,773	13

Consumers served, by year

2016906
20171,154
20181,122
20191,049
2020918
20211,064
20221,242
20231,443

Measures against peers

Percentiles place this center among the 349 centers reporting in 2023 (national) and among centers of similar size (size peers: quartile 3 of 4 by total income). 100 is the most favourable position. How each measure is built and what it cannot tell you.

Relative measures, report year 2023
Measure	Value	National percentile	Size-peer percentile	What it is
Income per consumer	$1,095	88th	91th	Total income divided by consumers served. Lower ranks higher. It is intensity, not efficiency: a center doing nursing-home transitions costs more per person than one doing mostly information.
Income per goal achieved	$1,443	85th	85th	Total income divided by goals achieved. Lower ranks higher. Goals are self-reported and are not weighted by difficulty.
Goal achievement rate	58.2%	60th	57th	Goals achieved as a share of goals set. A rate near 100% can mean goals are recorded only when already met.
Records closed with all goals met	82.8%	71th	62th	Share of closed consumer records closed as "completed all goals set". Recorded at exit, so a stronger signal than goal counts.
Transitions per 100 consumers	0.90	52th	53th	Relocation-from-institution goals achieved per 100 consumers. Zero is common at small centers; the percentile shows how common.
Transitions per $100,000 of Part C	3.88	67th	67th	The same count against direct federal funding.
Service fill rate	85.6%	20th	13th	Consumers receiving a service as a share of consumers requesting it, across all service types except information and referral.
Board members with significant disabilities	82.0%	72th	70th	The regulation requires more than 50%. 9 of 11 members.
Staff with disabilities	70.0%	36th	44th	Share of staff full-time equivalents filled by people with disabilities. 6.2 of 8.9 FTE.
Equity index	19.6	56th	48th	Index of dissimilarity between the race and ethnicity of consumers and of the state's disability population, 0 to 100. Lower ranks higher. Compared with the state, not the center's actual service area.
Income volatility	19.9%	50th	55th	Coefficient of variation of total income across the years reported. Lower ranks higher.
Data-quality flags	0	54th	56th	Failed arithmetic checks in this year's report. Fewer ranks higher. Listed below.

Title VII funds (Parts B and C and Chapter 2) were 25.3% of income; Part B varied by 3.2% (coefficient of variation) across the years reported.

Services requested and received

Consumers requesting and receiving each service, report year 2023Information and referral is counted as contacts (1,274) and is not in this table.
Service	Requested	Received	Fill rate
Assistive technology	613	544	88.7%
Preventive services	459	417	90.8%
Housing and home modifications	447	391	87.5%
Advocacy and legal services	181	139	76.8%
IL skills training	68	52	76.5%
Youth transition	53	52	98.1%
Vocational services	29	14	48.3%
Transportation	23	14	60.9%
Peer counseling	18	11	61.1%
Communication services	17	5	29.4%
Prostheses and orthotics	5	4	80.0%
Children's services	4	3	75.0%
Family services	4	1	25.0%
Physical restoration	4	2	50.0%
Counseling and related services	3	1	33.3%
Personal assistance	3	3	100.0%
Recreational services	3	2	66.7%
Mobility training	2	2	100.0%
Other services	2	2	100.0%
All services	1,938	1,659	85.6%

Largest unmet demand

Services with ten or more requests, ordered by the share that went unfilled.

Communication services: 5 of 17 requests filled (29.4%).
Vocational services: 14 of 29 requests filled (48.3%).
Transportation: 14 of 23 requests filled (60.9%).
Peer counseling: 11 of 18 requests filled (61.1%).
IL skills training: 52 of 68 requests filled (76.5%).
Advocacy and legal services: 139 of 181 requests filled (76.8%).

Goals by category

Goals set, achieved and in progress, report year 2023
Goal category	Set	Achieved	In progress
Self-advocacy and self-empowerment	152	41	80
Communication	13	6	4
Mobility and transportation	384	289	57
Community-based living	437	131	219
Educational	12	1	9
Vocational	24	5	12
Self-care	623	509	43
Information access and technology	141	77	39
Personal resource management	28	9	11
Relocation from a nursing home or institution	28	13	10
Community and social participation	32	10	13
Other	9	4	1

Who the center served

Consumers by age
Age	Consumers
Under 5	2
5 to 19	22
20 to 24	26
25 to 59	423
60 and older	970
Age unavailable	0

Consumers by disability type
Disability	Consumers
Cognitive	73
Mental or emotional	60
Physical	616
Hearing	60
Vision	17
Multiple disabilities	509
Other	108

Race and ethnicity against the state's disability population

Consumers compared with Florida residents with a disabilityCenter shares exclude 24 consumers of unknown race. State shares are from ACS B18101A to B18101I. A ratio above 1 means the group is a larger share of consumers than of the state's disability population.
Group	Consumers	Share of consumers	Share of state disability population	Ratio
White	1,030	72.6%	57.4%	1.27
Black or African American	216	15.2%	11.7%	1.30
American Indian or Alaska Native	15	1.1%	0.3%	3.59
Asian	17	1.2%	1.6%	0.74
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	3	0.2%	0.0%	4.81
Two or more races	13	0.9%	10.9%	0.08
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	125	8.8%	18.0%	0.49

Hispanic or Latino is an ethnicity reported alongside race in the PPR, so shares can sum to more than 100%. The comparison is with the whole state, which overstates any mismatch for a center that serves one part of it.

Data quality

Eight arithmetic checks run over every center's report. They test whether the tables agree with each other, nothing more. How often each check fails nationally.

None of the arithmetic checks failed for this report. That means the tables add up, not that the counts are verified.

What this cannot tell you

The report is unaudited self-report. Nobody verifies the consumer counts.
It reports income, not expenditure. A cost measure here is a stand-in until checked against the center's audited financial statements.
Part B and Part C outcomes are not separable. The center reports total activity.
There is no county, city or island detail in the public file.
Percentiles compare centers whose definitions of "consumer" and "goal" may differ. The data-quality row is the only signal of that in the public data.
Relative position is not impact. Nothing here supports a causal claim about what the center changed in anyone's life.

Source: Administration for Community Living, Centers for Independent Living Program Performance Report public datafiles, report years 2016 to 2023. Generated 2026-10-25.