The professionals trained to read a home before life changes it.
CILS is the professional credential issued by Inclusive Living International to practitioners who evaluate homes that are already built and already lived in, and translate what they find into decisions a family can act on.
ILS certifies properties. CILS certifies people.
The Inclusive Living Standard certifies developments. CILS certifies the professionals who carry the methodology into homes that are already standing, and already occupied.
The distinction matters. A development is read on plans, before anyone lives there. A home is read with the people inside it: how they move, where they hesitate, what they have quietly stopped doing and never mentioned to anyone.
A CILS is trained to see that, to measure it against a defined standard, and to write it down in a way that leads to a decision rather than to alarm.
The credential is issued by Inclusive Living International. It is a professional credential, not a licence to practise, and it does not replace the qualification each holder already carries.
A credential that can be verified.
Every holder receives a unique credential number and is listed in ILI’s register. A family, a clinic or an employer can confirm in seconds that a credential is real and still active.
The seal may be displayed by the holder for as long as the credential remains current. It identifies a professional who has completed supervised practice under the ILI methodology, not simply someone who attended a course.
For the professionals who already enter the home.
Occupational therapists
Practitioners who already assess function and daily performance, and who need a structured method to carry that reading into the physical environment where it actually happens.
Physiotherapists
Professionals managing recovery, mobility and fall risk, for whom the home is the setting where clinical progress is either sustained or quietly lost.
Health and care practitioners
Nurses, gerontologists, case managers and rehabilitation staff involved in the transition from hospital back to home, where most of the risk concentrates.
Final-year students
Students of the health professions preparing to enter practice with a differentiated competence that few professionals in the region currently hold.
What CILS is not
CILS is not an architectural or engineering credential. It does not authorise structural work, plan approval, or code compliance review, and it does not qualify the holder to sign off on construction. Those responsibilities remain with licensed design professionals. A CILS works alongside the architect and the builder, never in place of them, and the report is written precisely so that they can act on it.
A reading of the home, and a plan the family can act on.
A CILS conducts a structured evaluation of an existing home, zone by zone, against defined levels of risk, using the resident’s own performance as the reference. It is not a checklist run against a building. It is a reading of the fit between a person and a place.
The output is a professional report: what is happening today, what will happen if nothing changes, what should be resolved now, and what should simply be prepared for later. Written so that a family can decide without being frightened, and precise enough that an architect or a contractor can execute from it.
A home is not evaluated for how it looks. It is evaluated for how it will hold.
Earned in practice, not in attendance.
A structured programme
Ninety hours across four modules, combining classroom work, live online sessions, supervised practice and independent study.
Three real home evaluations
Not simulations. Three real supervised evaluations in occupied homes, documented and submitted as professional reports with written feedback on each.
Defence of a case
Presentation and defence of one of the candidate’s own cases before the teaching team and peers.
Final examination
A written examination taken in person, covering methodology, risk classification, and professional judgement.
A note on standards
Attendance alone does not earn the credential. Candidates who complete the programme without meeting the practice and examination requirements receive a certificate of participation instead. The requirement exists for one reason: the value of the credential depends entirely on the work of the people who hold it.
Certifying a development rather than a person?
ILS is the certification for residential and mixed-use developments, evaluated on plans before construction. It is a separate standard, for a separate audience.
ILS CertificationCILS applies to homes that are already built and already inhabited, and to the professionals who evaluate them.
Issued by Inclusive Living International.
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