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West, Michael; Revell, Grant; Wehman, Paul – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1998
Reports findings from a national survey of 385 day support providers regarding conversion of resources from segregated services to supported employment. Approximately 23% of all agencies and 37% of agencies with both facility-based programs and supported employment indicate that they had converted resources to community-based employment.…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Powers, Lawrence; And Others – 1987
This document reports on efforts to develop an initiative to target increased involvement of the Arizona Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) with Arizona's disabled American Indians both on and off reservations. The report summarizes comments on important issues generated during a central office planning meeting of the Arizona RSA. It…
Descriptors: American Indians, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Government Role
Sanderson, Priscilla Lansing; Schacht, Robert M.; Clay, Julie A. – 1998
This fact sheet discusses the outcome of a study designed to understand the needs of American Indians with disabilities who may have problems that limit their ability to carry out daily activities. Thirty-two American Indians with disabilities were interviewed in three counties in northwest New Mexico regarding the things they used or needed…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adults, Advocacy, Agency Cooperation
Miles, M. – 1998
This address begins with a study of self-help by a Mozambican in the 1590s and then imagines a period between the years 2050 to 2150, during which women caring for people with disabilities abolish the need for specialist educational, medical and social services, by multiplying and democratizing the necessary knowledge, skills and design to make…
Descriptors: Adults, African History, Children, Community Programs