Projects
For more than 30 years, HSRI Projects have been helping to improve human service systems in a wide range of Focus Areas and Topics. To view a selection of our Projects by a specific Focus Area or Topic you can make your selection in the "View By" menu found below. You can also sort Projects chronologically or alphabetically by using the "Organize Projects" menu found below.
Viewing Projects By Topic: Self-Determination
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Arkansas Youth United
(2007-2010)The Center's primary goal is to help young people complete their high school education, pursue post high school education or job training, seek and maintain employment and build personal assets or otherwise improve their lives.
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Oregon SPD Quality Assurance for HCBS
(2004-2006)HSRI, working with OTAC, ORA and LOKI innovations, has contracted with the Oregon DHS to create common quality assurance and quality improvement strategies for in-home services across populations of seniors, people with disabilities and people with developmental disabilities. The major tasks of this project include gaining a comprehensive understanding of existing QA system/tools in Oregon and nationally, recommending tools/processes that will ensure health and safety for all three populations, and providing recommendations for integrating the QA management information systems; these activities will all be completed with input from a stakeholder group representing all three populations.
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Legislative and Rule Analysis for Consumer-Directed Supports
(2004-2005)This project, funded by the state of North Carolina, included an assessment of the extent to which formal statutes, regulations, and policies that form the legal foundation for the many facets of the delivery system for people with developmental disabilities, behavioral health issues, physical disabilities, and elderly constrained the state’s movement toward self-direction.
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The Riot! E-Newsletter
(2004-Present)The Riot! is an e-newsletter for self-advocates. Self-advocates are people with disabilities who speak up for themselves and others. Self-advocates speak up with spoken words, sign language, language boards or in ways unique to each person.
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My Voice, My Choice: What You Need to Know About Participant-Driven Supports
(1997)The purpose of this project was to facilitate a process in which individuals with developmental disabilities from several states designed, developed, and field tested a curriculum on participant-driven managed supports for their own use and for others in their state.
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