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Managed by: Angela Amado of Research and Training Center on Community Living, University of Minnesota

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Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online) (37 Products)
Electronic Media (30 Products)
Organizations, Programs, and Projects (39 Products)
Online Forums (1 Products)
Other (4 Products)
People Who Can Help (9 Products)

Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)

	"Community for All" Tool Kit: Resources for Supporting Community Living A useful set of resources for promoting deinstitutionalization and institutional closure. It contains research on deinstitutionalization, as well as advocacy strategies to promote deinstitutionalization.
	A Review of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Program in Indiana This report summarizes findings of a case study of Indiana's Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services progam.
	A Review of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Program in Louisiana This report summarizes findings of a case study of Louisiana's Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services progam.
	A Review of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Program in New Jersey This report summarizes findings of a case study of New Jersey's Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services progam.
	Abilities: Canada's Lifestyle Magazine for People with Disabilities A quarterly magazine featuring many empowering and interesting articles for people with disabilities.
	Articles on Person-Centered Supports and Quality By Michael J. Kendrick PhD Writings on person-centered issues and quality from an international leader in the field.
	Australasian Code of Ethics for Direct Support Professionals A guide for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) on how to work in the best interests of people with disability, especially where difficult decisions have to be made and people's values and priorities are challenged or questioned.
	Celebrating the Ordinary: The Emergence of Options in Community Living as a Thoughtful Organization This book is about one of the first agencies in the country that was designed on the principles of person-centered planning and supportive living. It has stories, pictures, documents, and policies that tell its story over time.
	Community Integration Policy and Practice Abstracts This product is a listing of journal articles about community integration and community inclusion. It includes a brief summary of each article.
	Community Supports for Aging Adults with Lifelong Disabilities This book provides information on how to work with older adults with developmental disabilities.
	Creating a Meaningful Day: An Innovative Curriculum for Adults with Significant Intellectual Disabilities A curriculum for supporting adults with significant intellectual disabilities. It teaches relationship skills and other skills and activities to help create meaningful days.
	Developing Individual Budgets and Reimbursement Levels Using the Supports Intensity Scale This report describes recent progress in moving state developmental disability systems using HCBS waivers toward greater efficiency and equity.
	Direct Support Professional Resource Guides Eleven resource guides for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) who work in group homes.
	Filthy Lucre, Creating Better Value in Long Term Supports A paper that discusses issues of rate-setting and person-centered budgeting in support of self-determination
	Getting Life A fictional story of young adults living in a nursing home who fight to live independently.
	Getting to Community: Supporting People with Developmental Disabilities in their Pursuit of the Good Life This book is about promoting self determination and great lives for people with disabilities.
	Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities Encouraging Inclusion and Participation This book is about making community living better for people with disabilities.
	How are we doing? Informational Indicators for Achieving Quality Outcomes and for Olmstead Plan Formation and Implementation This paper examines the results of four states including trends from 1988 to 2002 to see if people are getting the services their interdisciplinary teams have identified.
	Impact: Feature Issue on Volunteerism by Persons with Developmental Disabilities This issue of the Impact newsletter is about ways to include people with disabilities in volunteerism.
	Informal Assessments for Transition: Independent Living and Community Participation This book has many checklists about being prepared to live and work in the community.
	Making the Move to Managing Your Own Personal Assistance Services (PAS): A Toolkit for Youth with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood This is a guide for youth with disabilities who are getting ready to find their own place to live. It helps people learn how to manage Personal Assistance Services (PAS).
	Members of Each Other: Building Community in Company with People with Developmental Disabilities A book with a strong values-based foundation for providing supports for individuals with disabilities. It is a strong resource about person-centered planning and self-directed supports.
	One Person at a Time "One Person at a Time" is a book about life stories and agency changes that occur when each person is listened to and supported one person at time.
	Raising Difficult Issues with your Service Provider This booklet helps consumers begin dialogue and raise issues with their service provider.
	Respectful Relationships and Effective Teaching This new resource teaches in clear, everyday terms how to interpret behavioral messages from individuals with disabilities whose lives and actions are often misunderstood.
	Roles Based Planning A book with tools based on social role valorization and person-centered planning and the differences these tools have made.
	S. 1298 - Medicaid Community-based Attendant Services and Supports Act (MiCASSA) Reintroduced Announcement concerning the re-introduction of the systems change legislative initiative known as MiCASSA.
	Shared Living Guide The guide is about how to help people with developmental disabilities have a home and people to share everyday life with. It is written for states.
	Sharing Community: Strategies, Tips and Lessons Learned From Experiences of Community Building at Options Through photos and stories, this handbook has twenty tips and lessons for helping people with developmental disabilities to have community membership
	Simply for the Love of It: A Beginner's Guide to Support Services for People with Developmental Disabilities A book for direct support professionals which is designed to serve as a "primer" for working with individuals with disabilities in a very person-centered manner.
	Successful Transition Programs Pathways for Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Second Edition A book about the best ways to help high school students with disabilities prepare for adult life.
	The Down Syndrome Issues and Information Adult Living Series A series of books that deals with different parts of the adult life of someone with Down Syndrome.
	The Impacts of Supportive Housing on Neighborhoods and Neighbors An analysis of the impacts of supportive housing programs on neighborhood property values and crime rates.
	The Normalization Principle from Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded This is the classic description of the "principles of normalization" for persons with intellectual disabilities.
	The Safeguards Letter This occasional newsletter has many articles that help readers think about what it's like to be part of the community when you have a disability and receive services.
	Training Person-Centered Planning Facilitators: A Compendium of Ideas This is a manual with formats and resources for training people to facilitate Person Centered Planning meetings.
	Transition of Youth and Young Adults with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties A book about the best ways to help these students as they move from school to work.

Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)

	"Our Story" DVD "Our Story" DVD shows how supported living has been realized by thousands of Californians with disabilities. Use it as an introduction for participants and family, a training tool for staff, and the short version can be shared with legislators.
	A Credo for Support: People First Version A revised edition of a powerful video. It is set to music and offers suggestions for people who support someone with a disability. Read by self-advocates, the suggestions prompt viewers to question common views of disability, professionalism, and support.
	A Passion for Justice A video about the work of Robert Perske, advocate with people who have developmental disabilities and have been convicted of serious crimes they did not commit.
	Aging with Autism: Defining the Future This is a series of DVDs about autism.
	Becoming Independent This film is about 3 young adults with disabilities, and shows them at work and home. It explains their lives, hopes and dreams for the future.
	Bill and Dave's Corner This is a page on the CIRCL web site used to post program designs, employment agreements, and job descriptions for supported living services. It is named after Bill Silverberg and Dave Denniston.
	Community Services Reporter An online monthly periodical that features developmental disabilities services across the United States.
	Consumer Direction in Personal Assistance, Home Care Training Training for Personal Assistants supporting persons who are disabled or disabled/elderly and direct their own care.
	DisabilityTraining.org The goal of this web site is to advertise and encourage training and education to build supportive communities for Iowans with disabilities.
	Ending Disability Segregation This is an online presentation. It shares reasons why people with disabilities should be included in community life.
	Everyday Heroes This video tells stories about direct support professionals and how they have made it possible for people with disabilities to achieve their dreams.
	ILRU Virtual Independent Living Coach ILRU offers an online discussion group where you can participate in lively discussions on topics related to independent living.
	Impact: Feature Issue on Volunteerism by Persons with Developmental Disabilities This issue of the Impact newsletter is about ways to include people with disabilities in volunteerism.
	Lifestyles of the Poor and Unknown A film telling the true story about the married life between two people who both have developmental disabilities.
	Long Term Support for Individuals With Disabilities - Part II: Supporting Adults with Mental Retardation and/or Developmental Disabilities This brief gives background information on the MR/DD population (now ID/DD) and describes major information and service needs. It also talks about the work of ADRC grantees serving the population and provides resources to aid planning and operations.
	Minnesota Association of Centers for Independent Living (MACIL) MACIL is an organization dedicated to providing information about independent living and services available to Minnesotans that are provided by Minnesota's eight Centers for Independent Living (CILs).
	National Organization on Disability (NOD) The mission of The National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) is to expand the participation and contribution of America’s 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.
	Outcomes and Costs of Community Living: Semi-Independent Living and Group Homes This Australian study compares consumer outcomes and residential service costs for matched residents living semi-independently or in group homes. The entire report is available on the internet.
	Policy approaches to framing social inclusion and social exclusion: An overview This report explains the need, and pushes for better social inclusion policy.
	Principles and Practices of Building Community Series This is a DVD library of six sessions of training providing skills and education on some of the most important concepts of community living. The lessons provide compassionate, humorous and provocative training.
	Research Information for Independent Living Consumer-driven database containing independent living (IL) research reviews written in non-researcher language.
	Scoop Essentials: In Search Of Home Sweet Home An online article about housing options available to persons with disabilities. It shows how things have changed over the last 40-50 years. Visitors can ask questions or add comments and these will appear below article.
	Shelter for All Shelter for All helps people with disabilities who are homeless, it is located in Mississippi.
	Social Participation and Rural/Vulnerable Communities: Does Asset Ownership Matter? This paper is based on a comprehensive review of the relevant literature. It examines the impact of owning your own home on meaningful and participatory social inclusion.
	Social Role Valorization This website provides information and some resources about Social Role Valorization (SRV), information about training opportunities and a forum for discussion.
	Supporting Self-Determination A video to teach DSPs how to support the self-determination of the people they assist.
	The National Resource Center on Supported Living and Choice A website that provides information on research papers and articles related to supported living, inclusion, disability studies, disability rights, and advocacy, and links to other major disability websites.
	This Is YOUR Right A news show anchored by people with disabilities, these 2 videos from Irene M. Ward poke fun at faked reality commercials and present thoughtful news on living with disability. "
	Training Resource Network eStore eStore website with resources on the full inclusion of people with disabilities in their communities
	Vision of Community "Vision of Community" is a video-tape that shares the individual support stories of five individuals experiencing life, a choice at a time.

Organizations, Programs, and Projects

	ABCD Training Group The Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Training Group offers practical training on using ABCD principles from John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann's many publications such as "Building Communities From The Inside Out".
	Access to Assets A World Institute on Disability project that is learning new ways for people with disabilities to manage their money and make it grow. The project staff share what they are learning with people who have disabilities and financial planners.
	Adult Family Homes and Family Home Agencies California has established Family Home Agencies as private organizations to recruit and approve Adult family Homes, monitor and provide training. Homes support one or two adults with developmental disabilities in family residences as extended families.
	All Together Now Annual Conference An annual conference held by the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. It brings together people involved with cognitive disability and technology.
	Best Practices Open forums to share innovative, state-of-the-art, culturally sensitive, and individual and family-centered practices. Stakeholders have the opportunity for an exchange of innovative ideas in monthly get-togethers and an annual fair.
	Center for Personal Assistance Services The Center for Personal Assistance Services (PAS) provides the latest research and news for, and about the DSPs who help people at home and in the community.
	Centers for Independent Living This product is community centers that exist all around the United States, and the world, to assist persons with disabilities to leave institutions and live independently in the community.
	Community Education Network on Disability A network of community education programs serving adults with disabilities in Minnesota.
	Community Entry Services An innovative grassroots program to provide community supports to persons with acquired brain injuries in Wyoming. The program has unique supported living homes, supported employment, training in cultural diversity, and unique outdoor recreation.
	Community Living - British Columbia (CLBC) An examplary organization that provides community-based supports for people who have disabilities. It is located in British Columbia, Canada.
	Diligio Diligio is a not-for-profit educational and support agency working with the principles of Social Role Valorization.
	Empowerment Network Unlimited, Inc. Empowerment Network Unlimited, Inc. is a private non-profit corporation that value-based information, training, grant writing, and other services to help people with disabilities and those supporting them to pursue inclusive lifestyles.
	Federated Human Service Cooperative This group helps people with disabilities and their families set-up local provider organizations. They have a helpful website and an online newsletter.
	Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities An organization that provides many person centered resources and supports for community living. It is located in the United Kingdom.
	GCDD Make It Real An initiative from the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities. Its purpose is to help people with disabilities in Georgia lead real lives by accomplishing goals in six major focus areas: Community, Careers, Homes, Learning, Supports and Influence.
	Great Interactions This project works to improve the manner in which staff interact with clients.
	Inclusion Research Institute A research and information center that shares ideas about recent innovations promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities in all types of settings.
	Jay Nolan Community Services a Calfornia agency for people with autism which closed 13 group homes
	Kentucky Consumer Directed Option A program that allows Kentucky Medicaid waiver members to choose who provides their non-medical waiver services. Members can direct all or some of their waiver services.
	KeyRing An organization that helps people from England and Wales to live independently in their own homes. It also seeks to allow members to share their skills and talents with each other and with their communities.
	KFI (Katahdin Friends, Inc.) An award-winning agency in Maine known for providing individualized support.
	Minnesota Association of Centers for Independent Living (MACIL) MACIL is an organization dedicated to providing information about independent living and services available to Minnesotans that are provided by Minnesota's eight Centers for Independent Living (CILs).
	Monadnock Developmental Services A pioneering agency in supporting self-determination
	Money Follows the Person Grants A federal program that assists states in helping create more opportunities for the elderly and people with disabilities to move from institutions to the community.
	Mountain Regional Services, Inc. A program in Wyoming especially for people who have dual diagnoses
	National Organization on Disability (NOD) The mission of The National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) is to expand the participation and contribution of America’s 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.
	Neighbours Inc. Consulting and Training Services Neighbours Inc. is an innovative non-profit organization created specifically to support people with disabilities and their families in choosing and designing a life for themselves within their local towns and neighborhoods.
	Neighbours, Inc. An innovative agency based in New Jersey known for helping with disabilities become included in the community.
	Onondaga Community Living Innovate supported living and supported employment in New York
	Oregon Technical Assistance Corporation (OTAC) This agency promotes community inclusion for seniors and people with disabilities. It provides a variety of training and technical assistance for person-centered supports.
	Partners for Youth with Disabilities Mentoring programs for youth with disabilities.
	Project Grow This is an Arts, Farming, Yoga and Music project at Port City Development. It includes, supports and is empowered by people with disabilities.
	Realizations An organization that serves people with disabilities in Kentucky. They provide person-centered supports that are specific to each individual.
	Shelter for All Shelter for All helps people with disabilities who are homeless, it is located in Mississippi.
	Social Development Partnerships Program-Disability Component and Community Inclusion Initiative of Canada This Canadian initiative supports full inclusion of people with disabilities. In 2005 over 7.2 million dollars was legislated for this effort.
	Spectrum Society for Community Living An organization in Vancouver, Canada that supports people with disabilities to live in, and be active members of their communities.
	Supported Community Living program in Midland, Michigan An award-winning approach to supporting persons with developmental disabilities toward full community inclusion
	Survey on full participation in independent living Survey on independent living and the participation of people with disabilities and chronic health conditions in society
	The Center for Housing and New Community Economics (CHANCE) The National Home of Your Own Alliance helps people with developmental disabilities to become owners of their own homes.

Online Forums

On Being of Service
This is a blog about providing support to people with disabilities.

Other

	Aging in Place Principles This web page has ideas about how to help people with disabilities "age in place." They were created in Connecticut.
	HHS Asks Governors to Expand Home Care Medicaid Options HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson on Aug. 12 sent a letter to the nation's governors encouraging them to "overcome the institutional bias" of placing Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities in nursing homes and "assure ... they are served in the most appropri
	Professional Organizing Services for Adults and Children w/ Special Needs Do you have a diagnosis such as; ADHD, Depression or Anxiety? These conditions may effect your ability to organize. Our highly skilled staff will reduce your stress and bring peace & balance into your life. Residential, Educational or Professional.
	The Community Support Skill Standards (CSSS) For Direct Service Workers in Human Services A set of important skills for staff who support people in community human service settings.

People Who Can Help

	Angela Amado Angela Amado has conducted training throughout the U.S., Canada, and also in the Netherlands and Israel on person-centered planning, friendships between people with and without developmental disabilities, community building, self-determination, and per...
	Bob Jones I am an instructor in the two-year Disability and Community Support program at Red River College College. I have been involved over the last two years with a group of people conducting "retreats" under the general title; "Developing and Sustaining Lead...
	David Wetherow Facilitation and training in PATH, person-centered planning, self-determination and community living.
	Deborah Reidy Deborah Reidy is President of Reidy Associates, a consulting service which helps to create organizations that contribute to the social good. Reidy Associates specializes in developing leaders, planning and implementing desired futures, and building te...
	Howard J. Miller, PhD Effective facilitator of learning and behavior change for people serving people at every level from top management up to direct care. Extraordinarily strong focus on self-advocacy as THE solution for problems companies serving people might encounter in...
	Mike Green Mike works from a citizen-centered perspective with local people at the center. The focus is on two organizing questions: organizing local citizens and their allies to mobilize their local resources to work together to solve problems, and how agencies ...
	Pat Fratangelo Onondaga Community Living (OCL) is an organization that transitioned from providing group home services to personalized services. We provide personalized suports to adults with developmental disabilities in every type of service that we do, whether it ...
	Patti Scott I am the CEO and co-founder of Neighbours, Inc, an innovative organization providing self-directed supports to people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I regularly provide training and consultation on all aspects of organizational change (moving to self...
	Roger Stancliffe Dr. Stancliffe is a specialist in reserach and evaluation of many aspects of community living. His interests include self-determination, (individualized) funding, supported living, Active Support, and costs. He has conducted many studies about cost-...

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