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Measuring Up: Know When a Support Needs Assessment Meets the Standards

If your state is going to use a support needs assessment that could impact peoples’ lives, then that assessment needs to have some standards. …

Community Support Skill Standards: Tools for Managing Change and Achieving Outcomes

The Community Support Skill Standards (CSSS) identify the master-level practice standards for direct service workers in progressive, community-based human service work environments. Developed and validated by a national coalition of…

North Dakota Behavioral Health System Study: Final Report

HSRI was selected by the North Dakota Department of Human Services to conduct an evaluation of the capacity of the state’s behavioral health system to prevent and respond to behavioral health…

Applying Peer Support to the Top Ten Concerns About Person-Centered Planning in Mental Health Systems

In 2012, Janis Tondora and colleagues authored an article outlining The Top Ten Concerns about Person-Centered Care Planning in Mental Health Systems. In this brief, Martha Barbone, a member of the NCAPPS…

Employing Individual Providers Under Participant Direction: A Guide

In this publication from 2006, the authors explore program design considerations to assist states as they move toward greater individuality and flexibility in the provision of services and supports.

Considerations for Best Practices for Children, Youth, and Adults with TBI: A Behavioral Health Guide

This guide provides states with tools for initiating or improving their partnerships within state mental health systems.

ProtectOHIO Third Waiver Period: Final Evaluation Report

This publication from 2016 explores the impact of the Title IV-E Waiver (a national child welfare demonstration project) in 16 participating Ohio counties. Since 1997, these child welfare agencies have…

ProtectOHIO Kinship Supports Evaluation Brief 2016

The ProtectOHIO Kinship Supports intervention is a method designed to promote kinship placement as best practice, increasing attention to and support for kinship placements, caregivers, and families. Its purpose is…

Peer Respite Toolkit

The Toolkit for Evaluating Peer Respites is written for evaluators, government officials, and peer-to-peer program staff and managers. It can be used to document program operations and outcomes and to…

Root Cause Analysis and its use in State Developmental Disabilities Agencies

This introduction to root cause analysis and its adaptation to developmental disabilities systems was commissioned by HSRI in 2002 in an effort to assist state developmental disabilities program administrators enhance…