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Resources on Supporting Self-Determination

• www.selfdeterminationohsu.org. This Web site of the Center on Self-Determination at Oregon Health Sciences University contains information and resources that promote the self-determination of people with disabilities and ongoing health conditions. Information categories are leadership, education, employment, community, and health.
• Shifting Power and Control. This book provides a variety of activities to teach direct support providers, administrators, service coordinators, families and individuals about self-determination. It was developed at Monadnock (NH) Developmental Services, the U.S.’s pioneer agency in self-directed supports and budgets. Available from MDS at 603/353-1304 or at http://www.mds-nh.org.
• This is Freedom: Self-Determination Across America (video, 25 minutes). A documentary that presents the first in-depth look at interviews conducted in 1998 with self-advocates, family members, and others from across the country speaking openly about the struggle for self-determination. Hopes for the future as well as frustrations with the present service delivery system are discussed. Available from the Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 603/862-4320 or http://iod.unh.edu.
• Impact: Feature Issue on Support Coordination and Self-Determination. This issue of Impact addresses the evolving roles of service coordination and support brokering in assisting people to define and realize life goals. Available from the Institute on Community Integration at 612/624-4512 or http://ici.umn.edu/products.

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Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu). Citation: Gaylord, V., Moseley, C., Lakin, C. & Hewitt, A. (Eds.) (2004). Impact: Feature Issue on Consumer-Controlled Budgets and Persons with Disabilities 17(1). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration. Available from http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/171.

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