Policy, Program Evaluation, and Research in Disability: Community Support for AllExplore case studies from the 1980s and 1990s that highlight the progress of community programs for people with disabilities! Policy, Program Evaluation, and Research in Disability: Community Support for All is an essential research reference on how community support systems can greatly assist people with diverse disabilities to live fuller lives outside of institutions. Based on qualitative research methods, Policy, Program Evaluation, and Research in Disability reflects over a decade of technical assistance and research in state, regional, and local communities throughout the United States. Community service managers, policy makers, researchers, activists, individuals with disabilities, and their families will benefit from the numerous studies that promote a better quality of life for those living with disabilities. Structured around the support and empowerment paradigm, which strives to enhance the independence of people with disabilities, Policy, Program Evaluation, and Research in Disability offers studies that combine in-depth, qualitative research approaches for use with field practicums, research internships, and professional development. You will examine studies that cover several different types of community support systems, in the fields of mental health, mental retardation, brain injury, physical and multiple disabilities. In Policy, Program Evaluation, and Research in Disability, some of the topics you will read about include:
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Contents
The New Hampshire StoryLessons | 25 |
Community | 31 |
The Role of the Courts | 53 |
Key Factors Contributing to Positive Outcomes | 59 |
Litigation Institutional Closures and Community | 69 |
Knitting and Connecting | 79 |
A Qualitative Study of SelfAdvocacy | 85 |
The Development of SelfAdvocacy in New Hampshire | 91 |
Introduction | 227 |
The Role of Family Case Study Research | 235 |
The Role of Family Case Studies in Evaluation Research | 254 |
Conclusion | 261 |
Introduction | 270 |
Residential Reform and Deinstitutionalization | 276 |
Housing Neighborhoods and Communities | 284 |
Introduction | 297 |
New Hampshires Guardianship Program | 97 |
Local Control | 101 |
Conclusion | 117 |
Community Places and Relationships | 125 |
Ways of Organizing to Provide Support | 132 |
MOVING TOWARD UNIVERSAL ACCESS | 139 |
Combined Physical and Cognitive Disabilities | 146 |
Psychiatric Survivors the International | 153 |
Tasks and Roles of Personal Assistants | 160 |
Decision Making and Consumer Control | 166 |
Universal Access to PAS | 173 |
Support and Decision Making | 179 |
Conclusion | 187 |
Perspectives | 207 |
The Meaning of Cognitive and Emotional Support | 213 |
Practical Aspects of Personal Assistance Services | 221 |
Foster Care Models in the United States | 303 |
Quality of Homes and the Safety of Children | 313 |
Introduction | 319 |
Toward Better Futures | 335 |
Nature of Qualitative Evaluation Research | 346 |
Data Collection | 352 |
Selection of Agencies | 358 |
Report References | 364 |
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