Background: Loneliness is a significant public health concern due to its detrimental impact on health and wellbeing. Despite people with disability reporting higher levels of loneliness than the …
Background : Community-based employment is a key step for many adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), a group prone to high unemployment, poverty, and dependency. It is …
Presented by Staci Jones of University of Massachusetts – Boston and Don Lavin of Strengths@Work, LLC, this free webinar gives an overview of the 10 Essential Elements of Organizational Transformat…
Organizational Transformation can get messy. It is critical that organizations both understand and define their long-term vision and ultimately how success will be defined. Presented by Karen …
NOTE: This report is being cleared for accessibility and will be available soon. Effective support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities relies on the presence of competent, …
Presenters Danielle Mahoehney and Megan Sanders of ICI discuss how providers can use their data to inform workforce solutions techniques to recruit, select, train, and retain quality direct …
Organizations that transform from more traditional service models to those that prioritize competitive integrated employment outcomes successfully understand the importance of managing effectively …
Quality training is essential to retaining a highly-skilled, competent, and confident workforce. It can be difficult to find time to properly train new direct support professionals(DSPs) and …
Credentialing programs for direct support professionals and frontline supervisors are being researched and developed by states and provider organizations across the country, and for good reason. …
As many states consider the movement away from 14c subminimum wage usage for people with disabilities, there is emerging research emphasizing the need to better connect unpaid day activities to a …
Starfire, of Cincinnati, Ohio, ran award-winning outings and day programs for decades. Beginning in 2010, the organization transformed from disability-centered programming to community-centered …
Background: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced an immediate change to the delivery of employment supports and services for jobseekers and workers with intellectual and developmental disabili…
One of the most daunting parts of organizational transformation is planning for the financial implications, as shown in this webinar. Not only do organizations have to consider an approach to …
This report contains the proceedings of a forum held on June 28, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana to discuss issues surrounding meaningful accessibility of assessments. The forum was a post-session …
In collaboration with the Minnesota Organization for Habilitation and Rehabilitation (MOHR), ICI's Minnesota Transformation Initiative (MTI) holds quarterly trainings focused on organizational …
This paper examines retirement by older workers with intellectual disability. Much research and intervention about retirement and intellectual disability in the last decade or so emanates from …
The Institute's monthly newsletter featuring news of recent activities, accomplishments, and resources. This month's first feature story is on the new issue of Impact , which is about sexuality …
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