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Peer reviewedHightower, Mae D. – Journal of Rehabilitation, 1976
The rapid changes occurring in society requires continuous development and growth in rehabilitation programs so that the needs of handicapped individuals to live in their communities can be met. Program changes are influenced by staff and client mobility, mobility in funding, public demand for accountability, and identity perceptions. (EC)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Individual Needs, Program Improvement, Rehabilitation Programs
Peer reviewedWest, 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
Download full textFry, Ronald R., Ed. – 1996
Targeted to state vocational rehabilitation administrators and leaders, this document discusses the recommendations of a study group that investigated approaches, ways, methods, and strategies for increasing the involvement of individuals with disabilities in the operation and management of state agency rehabilitation programs. Part 1, "Consumer…
Descriptors: Adults, Advisory Committees, Change Strategies, Cooperation
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
Coker, Charles C.; Flynn, Mary; Menz, Fredrick E.; McAlees, Daniel C. – 1998
This report details the outcomes of a study conducted in response to concerns about the impact of workforce development and welfare reform upon persons with disabilities being served by community rehabilitation programs. Twenty-three focus groups involving over 200 individuals were held in 13 different cities across eight states. Participants came…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Community Programs, Disabilities
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
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. – 1983
The New York State Board of Regents conducted a formal review of the long-range goals and policy directions for vocational rehabilitative services to disabled youth and adults in New York. The first phase of the review consisted of an examination of major pieces of vocational and special education legislation, current federal and state economic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Role, Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs
