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This paper is an expansion of the NCD’s livable community framework (LCF): a set of public policy recommendations for ensuring that people with disabilities have all the opportunities and choices available to people without disabilities. It links key elements of the LCF to specific needs of people with psychiatric disabilities, and discusses stigma and discrimination.

A must have tool for all projects, this detailed flow chart provides a phase by phase overview to developing an affordable assisted living facility and acts as a checklist for organizations as they move through project development.

Use this step-by-step feasibility analysis guide and spreadsheet model to determine the financial viability of proposed assisted living facilities. This tool provides an integrated framework to analyze a myriad of co-located services is built in to linked development and operation worksheets, automatically populates cells and provides information on financial feasibility of facility development.

This study evaluates the efficacy of applying standard market study methodologies and benchmarks for assisted living to rural markets and identifies factors that may contribute to the success of assisted living residences in rural markets. Written as part of the Coming Home Program, this publication offers ideas about how states with comparable policy environments should make allowances for more acute resident profiles, a more Medicaid-based payment mix, and higher market capture rates.

The indicators provided in this fact sheet serve as a means for self-assessment by employment programs to help make strides toward facilitating competitive and sustainable employment choices for people with disabilities. This tool can also be used to identify both areas of strength to highlight in marketing and areas that need priority attention for improvement.

This report is about older youth that are involved in the foster care system and have disabilities and the challenges and outcomes they experience in the areas of education, employment, and other indicators of well-being. The goal is to inform and advise state and federal policymakers in improving these outcomes through better services coordination, systems accountability, leadership development, and capacity building, focusing especially on the transition to adulthood.

This study examines dynamics affecting the direct-care workforce in Vermont. It found that only one third of those workers have employer-sponsored health insurance, one half of those surveyed expected to receive a raise, and 42% received formal job training. The report includes nine recommendations to strengthen the state’s direct-care workforce. In addition, the appendices include original surveys given to employers and direct-care workers.

This MIG project is focused on assisting individuals with disabilities to become gainfully employed. Included are work products from CES including: a resource mapping project on the availability of employment related services and supports, summaries of findings from focus groups regarding the rehabilitation needs of un-served and under-served populations, and a summary of input gathered from employer focus groups.

Find a variety of documents used in the strategic planning process for a Comprehensive Employment System in North Dakota. A diagram outlines the planning process and roles of individuals involved. A criteria sheet discusses elements that needed to be included in the final strategic plan. Two summaries provide information covered in regional planning meetings. Finally, an agenda and the minutes for the statewide planning meeting present an overview of the meeting’s accomplishments.

Find an abundance of information on Health Coverage for Workers with Disabilities (HCWD), a Medicaid expansion in North Carolina created under the authority of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act. Included are: reports on cost and participation projections; a powerpoint presentation on information gathered from workgroups; brochures on the program; and a fact sheet about the shift from personal care services (PCS) to HCWD.