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Adjusting Housing Practice towards a Social Inclusion Framework -2002
Affordable Clustered Housing-Care: A Viable Alternative for Long-Term Care in a Residential Setting? -2007 — Identifying how affordable dwelling alternatives in the community can offer long-term care services is a pressing policy challenge.
A National Snapshot of Home Support from the Consumer Perspective Enabling People with Disabilities to Participate in Policy Analysis and Community Development -2005 — This research project represents a joint effort between the Council of Canadians with Disabilities and the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University. Both parties shared an interest in conducting a national study of home support (home care) policy and service that emphasized the perspectives of individuals with disabilities who require the service.
At Home in the Community? Promoting the social inclusion of people with a learning disability living in supported accommodation -2007 — People with a learning disability are among the most marginalised in our society. To date there has been relatively little research into the factors that hinder social inclusion and how they might be removed.
Breaking Ground: Peer Support for Congregate Living Settings -2010 — This community based research project began as a simple enquiry into the nature of peer delivered housing support, in the hopes of designing an ideal model for a supportive housing project. (Ontario)
Community-Based Residential - best practices -Duncan Blackman, 2009 — 5 page chart of resources.
Costs and Outcomes of Community Services for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities -2004 — Published by the Research and Training Center on Community Living, Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD) http://ici.umn.edu/default.html
Developing Supported Living Services: A Guide to Essentials for Service Agencies and Regional Centers -2000 — Other relevant resources at http://www.allenshea.com/
Do persons with intellectual disability have a social life? The Israeli reality -2008 — Living in the community does not, in and of itself, guarantee social integration and inclusion for persons with intellectual disability.
Draft National Quality Standards: Residential Services for People with Disabilities (Ireland, 2008)
Factors Associated With Outcome in Community Group Homes -2005 — There is evidence of considerable variability in the quality of residential services and a tendency for residents' quality of life to co-vary with ability level.
Home and Community‐Based Services: Examining the Evidence Base for State Policymakers The Hilltop Symposium, June 11, 2009 — More than 130 policymakers, health services researchers, practitioners, and policy experts discussed the measures and evidence to examine whether the expansion of home and community-based services has produced desired outcomes (quality, choice, cost, satisfaction and safety) in the long term for older adults and persons with disabilities.
Housing and care for older and younger adults with disabilities -2002 — This paper outlines research, by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute University of Sydney Research Centre, into the relationships between housing and care for younger and older adults with disabilities.
Housing and support strategy for people with learning difficulties 2007 - 2012
Housing Options (UK) — Housing Options is an independent advice and information service for people with learning disabilities.
Housing support for people with learning disabilities -2008 — The crucial distinction between types of support is "accommodation-based" and "floating". The former is provided by a team of staff working round the clock in a single location. Floating support refers to staff who are based separately but visit tenants in their own homes to help with specific tasks.
Included in Society: Results and Recommendations of the European Research Initiative on Community-Based Residential Alternatives for Disabled People -2004 — More at http://www.community-living.info/
Independent Living, Politics and Implications -2004
Learning for care homes from alternative residential care settings 2014 — This review explores the learning from delivery of care in residential services for children and young people, residential services and supported housing for people with learning disabilities and hospice care, and considers how this can be applied in care homes for older people.
Linked Service Array as a Model for Effective, Efficient Service Delivery -1999 — The family service coordinator/treatment supervisors who comprise the clinical management team for the service array are qualified to fulfill the dual roles of behavior consultant specialist and mobile therapist as defined for wraparound services, but implement those roles across the overall array of services.
Living in the Community A Comparative Study of Foster Homes and Small Group Homes for People With Mental Retardation -1989 — Of historic relevance
Negotiating the Curves Toward Employment: A Guide About Youth Involved in the Foster Care System — More at http://www.ncwd-youth.info/
No Place Like Home: A Report on the Housing Needs of People with Intellectual Disabilities -2008 — This report looks at housing issues for people with intellectual disabilities. It provides a working definition of this population and looks at the nature and extent of their need for housing. The focus of the report is on non-institutional housing options beyond the family (e.g., parental) home.
OUTCOMES AND COSTS OF COMMUNITY LIVING: SEMI-INDEPENDENT LIVING AND GROUP HOMES -1999
Residential Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: Status and Trends Through 2009 — The National Residential Information Systems Project (RISP) of the Research and Training Center on Community Living began in 1977. This project gathers and reports statistics on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) receiving residential and Medicaid-funded services in the United States. (Project head: K. Charlie Lakin)
Residential Support/Medicaid Publications & Products — from the Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC)
Social Housing with Community Support: A Study of the FOHM Experience -2001
Supported Living – Making the Move Developing Supported Living options for people with learning disabilities -2010 — This paper has been written to help promote discussion, debate and understanding about the obstacles that currently help prevent adults with a learning disability from living in their own home in the ways that they want.
Supported Living – Making the Move Developing Supported Living options for people with learning disabilities -2010 — This paper has been written by the NDTi to help promote discussion, debate and understanding about the obstacles that currently help prevent adults with a learning disability from living in their own home in the ways that they want.
Supported Living Services Training Tool Box — This 442 page document can help supported living agencies develop a toolbox of information, materials and resources for helping everyone learn about supported living.
SUSTAINING THE ENTITLEMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES SYSTEM: A REGIONAL CENTER PERSPECTIVE -rv2010 — This is the fifth revision of a paper first published in 2003 by the Board of Directors of Lanterman Regional Center... The concerns expressed in the first version of the paper have grown with each revision to the point where we are witnessing the breakdown of the community service system.
Take the Road to Independence The Options Too Initiative A consumer guide for planning your move from an institution, MN, 2006 — The Minnesota Department of Human Services recognizes that people with disabilities who want to move from in‑ stitutions into the community often need help. The Options Too Initiative strengthens community living options for people with disabilities under age 65.
The Establishment of Group Homes in The Town of MISSISSIPPI MILLS (Ontario, 2003) — Study on Official Plan Policies, Zoning Regulations, Other Regulatory Actions and Procedures
Women with Disabilities and Housing. Factsheet
Women with disabilities Fact Sheet (UN) — Section with references on housing.
Women with Disabilities in the Urban Environment
Women’s Inequality in Canada -2008 — See page 96ff: housing for Women with disabilities