This section pertains to Personal Support Planning and related documents for developing community or place-based solutions for human services.
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A New Social Architecture for Canada’s 21st Century -David Hay, 2004 — Additional resources of the Canadian Policy Research Networks at http://www.cprn.org/index.cfm
A new social architecture -Judith Maxwell, 2005 — See related publication, Creative Communities and A New Social Architecture - Presentations From CPRN, at http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1314&l=en
Approaches to Measuring: Community Change Indicators -2010 — Approaches to Measuring: Community Change Indicators consolidates the research and content of four previously published papers measuring less poverty in communities, more vibrant communities, more collaboration and more citizen engagement.
Are We Having Fun Yet? Overcoming Social Barriers and Getting the Outcomes and Activities You Want With Existing Funding Sources -2000 — The changes in what people with developmental disabilities wanted and got for living and daytime settings in South Dakota and Wyoming during 1988 were compared to what they wanted and received in 2000.
Best Practices in Transition to Adult Life for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities: A National Perspective Using the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2011 — To improve postschool outcomes, several best practices are recommended by researchers and professionals in the field of transition either specifically for youth with intellectual disabilities or all youth with disabilities.
Costs and Outcomes of Community Services for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities -2004 — This article focuses on a number of key issues related not only to public expenditures, but also to funding systems, related policies and regulations, and their impact on service systems, on specific service types, and on service users.
Designing Outcomes-Oriented Performance Measures for Social Services -2001 — PPT in pdf form on a California agency
Developing an Individual Support Plan for an Adult- 2007
DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN A SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY -2008 — This paper discusses the role of performance measures in human service agencies, emphasizing some possible directions in their evolution, and offers a view of their connection to other agency elements and their potential in the management process.
Developmental Disabilities Program — Market Analysis State of Montana — Department of Public Health and Human Services -2004 — The State of Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Developmental Disabilities Program (DDP) is redesigning its approach to allocate individual resources for persons with developmental disabilities. As part of this redesign effort, Mercer Government Human Services Consulting (Mercer) conducted a market analysis of current social, economic, and service delivery trends affecting Montana’s developmentally disabled (DD) persons.
Guide on Person-directed Planning -2006 — see http://www.individualizedfunding.ca/home.html
NWT Health and Social Services Performance Measurement and Reporting -2003
Person centred planning and support planning — an example
Person-centred planning in social care -2006 — The study describes how person-centred planning began, discusses the existing evidence base and explains why many practitioners find it an effective way to support people with social care needs.
Principles and Practices in Person-Centered Services -2009 — The What Really Matters initiative identifies person-centered services with the greatest impact on people’s quality of life. We measure the effectiveness of person-centered services through the right blend of measures, indicators, and questions such as the Personal Outcome Measures.
Removing Social Barriers and Building Social Institutions -2000
Selection of Performance Indicators for Community and Government Agencies -2007 — Overview presentation
Support Plan Graphic — For more guidance on personal support plans, see http://www.supportplanning.org/
The Board Role in Strategic Thinking and Planning
The Challenge of Discerning The Real Foundations Of “Sustainability” -2002 — Excerpt: . A key starting point is to recognize that services are, at best, a supplement to what it is that the community offers as a general matter. In this respect, it is not that we do not need services, or that paid services cannot be useful, but the place they play, the actual role they play in the overall scheme of things has to be looked at rather carefully.