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is people, in Boulder & Broomfield Counties, with IDD, from birth to end of life, regardless of gender, income level, or ethnicity. When family members are involved they are included in the advocacy process to develop support systems and skills for self -advocates. In 2023, the ACL served 251 unduplicated people with IDD with individual advocacy, with 7724 advocacy hours. We also served 321 family members. Recently, a deeper connection between individual advocacy and systems advocacy has organically emerged at the ACL. Currently all of our advocates are doing both individual and systems advocacy. Of the 251 people, 138 adults were served. 113 were children served to improve access to hybrid & virtual learning and to advocate for special education to be provided safely in school. In 2023, in addition to Individual Advocacy, we provided Group and Systems Advocacy through Support Groups, Community Capacity Building, Interagency Collaborations, Public Policy, Membership Activities and Trainings. In 2023, the ACL provided 275 group activities with 3662 total attendence. Of the 275 activities in 2023, 45 were Parent Network Groups, 73 were Self Advocate groups, 37 were Caminando Juntos, 36 were for Cultivating Relationships, 15 were trainings and 24 were Public Policy efforts where our participation was to advocate on behalf of people with IDD. Systems advocacy was focused on state-wide Case Management Redesign, participating in the Boulder County Mil Levy Council and local and state -level advocacy done by self advocates that participate in SABE (Self Advocates Becoming Empowered) and Speaking For Ourselves. 25 Residents of Louisville with IDD and 78 family members received individual advocacy with 145 advocacy hours and 13 Louisville families participated in our groups. Qualitative measures: How will you measure the success of this program/activity? To measure progress we use a customized database that connects our advocacy efforts to the 21 domains of the Self Sufficiency Matrix. We analyze this data annually. This analysis shows us the tangible impacts of our work and patterns that we use to make informed program development decisions and that give us empirical verification that we are effective in our work and that we have an impact on our community. We evaluate our programs on an ongoing basis to assess our success in meeting goals and to create new data architecture. We are balancing the black and white of our data analysis with the stories of the people we serve who breathe life into the work that we do and whose input enables us to co -create solutions to the barriers people with IDD face. We define success as access to general education, housing, health care, employment and the opportunity to participate fully in the experiences of life and to contribute to your community. Success for the people we serve is having the ability to navigate systems and advocate as independently as possible for their needs. We expect to accomplish our mission through the activities we provide. As a result of our new database updates, we are able to capture Group and Systems Advocacy with increasing specificity and accuracy. This attendance is not unduplicated because the same person can attend multiple events. We do not collect extensive demographic information on event attendees. We strive to measure to outcomes, beyond the indicators of program participation, beyond how many people we served. For the past nine years, we used the Self -Sufficiency Matrix to measure the progress of our advocacy activities across 21 domains. For six years, the data showed that although there was progress overall in a positive direction, it is in very small increments from vulnerable to safe and thriving is elusive. Since 2019, we have reported on how many people we work with in each domain and how much we work in each domain. A review of the data suggests that the person - centered work of the ACL covered all 21 domains in 2023. We worked with the most people in the domains of child education, support systems and housing. 4. Evaluation: If you offered this program in the past year, provide a brief description of successes and challenges. What, if any, changes will you implement to address this evaluation? In 2023, the ACL was instrumental in including people with IDD in the planning of community 17/251