Integrated Living Opportunities

Integrated Living Opportunities is a non-profit organization that is devoted to helping families with special needs build supportive, integrated communities that enable safe, productive, independent living options for their young adults with developmental disabilities. ILO was founded by Maedi Tanham Carney, CFP®, CWIC, owner and founder of M&L Special Needs Planning, LLC, and group of core participating families (affectionately referred to as the “founding families”).

ILO empowers adults in Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and Montgomery County, MD with disabilities to live as fully integrated, contributing and participating members in the wider community. ILO helps families create supportive communities to facilitate networks of support for adults with disabilities to enable them to live independently. We do this by developing teams of paid and unpaid individuals for our self-advocates as they move out of their family houses into their own homes.