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Feature Issue on Behavior Support for Crisis Prevention and Response
Published by the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD) and the Research and Training Center on Community Living, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota • Volume 14 • Number 1 • Spring 2001
From the Editors
For decades public institutions and other segregated settings have served as placements of last resort for persons whose behavior, emotions or crisis circumstances presented challenges beyond the capacity or commitment of community service agencies. One of the last frontiers in the movement to assure a life in the community for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is the development of behavior support and crisis prevention and response programs in the community. These programs provide people experiencing behavioral, emotional or other crises – and the families and organizations that care about them – with immediate and ongoing support and treatment that allow them to remain in the community. Among programs emerging from communities committed to retaining each of their members are comprehensive state and regional programs serving areas in which institutions no longer exist, interactive video consultation services that reach people across large distances, and diversion programs for persons involved with the criminal justice system. All share a commitment to positive behavior supports, multidisciplinary services, and the philosophy that personal crisis is an unacceptable excuse for institutionalizing people. It‘s that commitment which is described in this issue of Impact.
What’s Inside
Overview Articles
Community for All: Experiences in Behavior Support and Crisis Response
Meeting the Challenge: Crisis Services in the Community
Functional Assessment: Responding to Challenging Behavior
Training and Technical Assistance Strategies for Behavior Support and Crisis Response
Building an Effective Strategy for Crisis Prevention
Program Profiles
Ten Years of Prevention: The Vermont Crisis Intervention Network
Behavioral and Crisis Services in California
Collaborative Services in Massachusetts: The START/Sovner Center Program
Human and Cost Benefits of Community Behavioral Support in Minnesota
Use of Telemedicine to Provide Ongoing Consultation to Care Providers
Serving Persons with MR/DD Who Are Involved with State Criminal Justice Systems
Innovation in Colorado: The Pueblo DD/MH Consortium Diversionary Program
Resources and Related ICI Publications
Publication Information
Managing Editor: Vicki Gaylord
Issue Editors:
- Ronald H. Hanson Mount Olivet Rolling Acres Victoria, Minnesota
- Norman A. Wieseler Eastern Minnesota Community Support Services Faribault, Minnesota
- K. Charlie Lakin Institute on Community Integration University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Impact is published quarterly by the Institute on Community Integration (University Affiliated Program), and the Research and Training Center on Community Living, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. This issue was supported, in part, by Grant #90DD0506/01 from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, US Department of Health and Human Services; and Grant #H133B980047 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute, College, University, or their funding sources. For additional information contact:
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Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu). Citation: Hanson, R., Wieseler, N., & Lakin, K. (Eds.). (2000). Impact: Feature Issue on Behavior Support for Crisis Prevention and Response, 14(1) [online]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration. Available from http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/141/.
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