Guiding Principles for Partnerships with Unions and Emerging Worker Organizations When Individuals Direct Their Own Services and Supports

File Downloads / Links

Signing Remarks PDF
NRCPDS Cover Letter PDF

Guiding Principles (Offsite Link)

Article Publication Date:

11/16/2011

Summary:

These Guiding Principles were developed to help to preserve the rights of individuals under participant direction, no matter what form or model, if and when workers choose to form a union. The NRCPDS cover letter, Guiding Principles, and NRCPDS Director Kevin Mahoney's signing ceremony remarks are available here.

Topics:

Consumer/Participant Direction; Quality

Types/Tools:

Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers; Promising practices; Toolkit

Populations:

Aging/Older Adults; Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Physical Disabilities; Direct Care Workforce; Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

NRCPDS

Programs/Initiatives:

Person Centered Planning

States:

All States/Territories