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Pathways Vermont Peer Respite Evaluation Preliminary Report
This visual report summarizes preliminary findings of a mixed methods evaluation of Pathways Vermont’s peer respite program.
Best Practices for Promoting Consumer Engagement on Health Care Transparency Sites
The rising costs and complexities of health care insurance and services can make it challenging for people to understand issues and confidently make decisions about the coverage and care…
Using Administrative Data to Identify Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: An Exploration in Maine
This publication explores how people with intellectual and developmental disabilities continue to experience significant, preventable health disparities, in part because they are difficult to consistently identify in national surveys…
Making Self-Direction a Reality: Using Individual Budgets to Promote Choice, Control, and Equity
Self-direction is a fast-growing platform for the delivery of community-based services and supports to people who need long-term care, and many states are choosing to use individual budgeting to…
Person-Centered Practices Self-Assessment
Developed as part of NCAPPS technical assistance, this Self-Assessment is designed to help leadership at human service agencies in States, Tribes, and Territories to measure their progress in developing…
NCAPPS Promising Practices for Person-Centered Plans
The person-centered plan is a written individualized plan based on the person’s needs, goals, and preferences that helps them reach their vision of a good life. But what exactly…
Strengthening Person-Centered Recovery Planning in State Behavioral Health Systems
Person-centered practices—promoting choice and self-determination, community inclusion, and full access to services and supports—are endorsed as a goal for most state behavioral health systems, and person-centered recovery planning (PCRP)…
Testing Family Support and Family Empowerment: Key Findings Across Four Pilots
In 1988 the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Planning Council CDDPC) funded four pilot demonstration family support programs. This report presents the findings of an evaluation of one of the four…