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Provides access to various instruments and checklists for evaluating the quality of supports and administration provided by agencies and service systems.

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Managed by: John G. Smith of Research and Training Center on Community Living, University of Minnesota

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Books and Printed Material (20 Products)
Electronic Media (9 Products)
Organizations, Programs, and Projects (4 Products)
Other (1 Products)
People Who Can Help (3 Products) new


Books and Printed Material
2010 CARF Employment and Community Services Standards Manual
The Standards Manual can be used as a blueprint to providing quality employment and community services, including day habilitation, community living services, assistive technology, and workforce development services.
Assessment Workbook for Use with Personal Outcome Measures
A tool for gathering information and making decisions regarding the presence or absence of selected outcomes in a persons life.
CARF - Managing Outcomes
Geared to employment and community services, this publication provides a how-to guide to implement an outcomes system.
Consumer and Family Guide to Quality Services
A booklet of questions a family or consumer may want to ask in selecting a provider or a specific service.
Designing and Delivering Quality Assistive Technology Services
This publication was developed to assist organizations develop and deliver quality assistive technology services.
Family Quality of Life Survey
This is a survey that addresses family quality of life and helps families or family support personnel identifiy family strengths and priorities for support.
Functional Independence Skills Handbook
An assessment and curriuclum to assist people with special needs in the development of greater personal independence
Handbook on Quality of Life for Human Service Practitioners
A book about the quality of life concept with many practical applications. It is appropriate for human service practitioners, educators, legislators, advocates, program administrators, and researchers.
Quality in Practice: Data System
A resource guide that provides suggestions on how an organization can best use a data system
Quality in Practice: Expectations for people
A resource guide helping organizations manage the constantly changing expectations for them and the people they support
Quality in Practice: Personal Records
A resource guide to help organizations with personal records and information systems. It addresses such questions as what information is kept, how that information is kept, and who has access to the information.
Quality in Practice: Quality Enhancement Plans
A resource guide that provides suggestions on how organizations can follow quality enhancement plans to to create strong, solid, high quality services and supports for the people it serves.
Quality Measurement Instrument Review
A comparison of seventy-two quality assurance instruments from across the country.
Quality Measures 2005
Quality Measures 2005SM combines CQL’s previous personal outcomes approach to quality definition and measurement with the lessons of social capital and the growing importance of Community LifeSM.
Quality of Life and Disability: An Approach for Community Practitioners
This book is about providing quality of life for people with disabilities.
Quality of Life: Applications Across Individuals, Organizations, Communities, and Systems
A careful look at the concept of quality of life, quality assessment and quality improvement. This book is based on new ideas about person-centered needs and outcomes.
Recommendations for Satisfaction Surveys
This guide gives advice to people creating satisfaction surveys, and to the consumers of disability services who respond.
Shaping Our Destiny: A Consumer's Guide, and a Provider's Guide, to Quality Community Services
A consumer's guide and a provider's guide to quality in services
The Importance Satisfaction Map TM
A guide for exploring consumers' satisfaction with services
Wyoming "Quality Enhancements" Site Review Reports
Wyoming's Developmental Disabilities Division conducts annual site reviews of residential and vacational programs and makes results available to the public via the web.
Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)
About Quality - Mosaic's on-line e-learning course
This online "About Quality" course introduces the user to internal quality assurance, accreditation, and quality enhancement plans.
Adults with learning difficulties in England 2003/04
This is the report of the first national survey of adults with learning disabilities (mental retardation) in England. It tells us how much more needs to be done if people with Learning Difficulties are to be more included and have a better life.
Australian Center on Quality of Life
A web site where people can learn about quality of life and people with disabilities. The web site is especially for researchers and university students who want to investigate this interesting area, but everyone is welcome to come and take a look.
Community Residential Core Competencies
This is a 17 page guidebook that describes 14 core compentencies that are necessary for direct support staff who work in residential services supporting persons with developmental disabilities.
Info about licensed or certified providers
A report is available online about every service provider in Massachusetts. These reports use a common set of indicators to explain the quality of services provided by each agency.
N.O.D. Harris Survey (National Organization on Disability Harris Survey of Americans with Disabilities)
The N.O.D. Harris poll summarizes the latest findings on quality of life issues for people with disabilities.
Quality Measurement Instrument Review
A comparison of seventy-two quality assurance instruments from across the country.
Recommendations for Satisfaction Surveys
This guide gives advice to people creating satisfaction surveys, and to the consumers of disability services who respond.
Wyoming "Quality Enhancements" Site Review Reports
Wyoming's Developmental Disabilities Division conducts annual site reviews of residential and vacational programs and makes results available to the public via the web.
Organizations, Programs, and Projects
Assessing Goal Attainment at Mobius
A way of measuring whether the goals of person-centered plans have been met.
Family Quality of Life Survey
This is a survey that addresses family quality of life and helps families or family support personnel identifiy family strengths and priorities for support.
ID/DD Performance Management & Satisfaction Systems
An agency performance management system for determining satisfaction of consumers, family/guardians, and employees.
N.O.D. Harris Survey (National Organization on Disability Harris Survey of Americans with Disabilities)
The N.O.D. Harris poll summarizes the latest findings on quality of life issues for people with disabilities.
Other
VOICE (Value Of Individual Choices and Experiences)
A set of eight life areas used to evaluate quality in services, one person at a time. VOICE is a "person-centered" way to think about the work of agencies.
People Who Can Help
Howard J. Miller, PhD
Effective facilitator of learning and behavior change for people serving people at every level from top management up to direct care. Extraordinarily strong focus on self-advocacy as THE solution for problems companies serving people might encounter in...
James Conroy
We can assist with program evaluation of all kinds in the human services. We specialize in ways of measuring qualities of life, and demonstrating that they are valid and reliable.
Tom Nerney
Together with 17 other Center for Self-Determination Resource Guides we provide training and technical assistance on all aspects of self-determination including: developing highly personal individual budgets and plans; crafting Medicaid waivers that pr...


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