developmental disabilities

Supporting People with Severe Reputations in the Community

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by Michael W. Smull and Susan Burke Harrison This handbook presents the tools needed to develop better community capacity to support people with severe reputations. For conceptual convenience, it is divided into four components: How people receive their reputations; How to plan with the individual for community services; How to recruit and develop the supports needed to … Read more

DDS SafetyNet and dspTV Channels

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We’ve been working on content for the DDS SafetyNet website for some time. More recently, we’ve been adding videos to the mix. What fun! Check it out on the DDS SafetyNet You Tube channel. Here are a few for starters: It’s not Okay Eat Right, Stay Healthy Stay Healthy This Winter Stress Less  

National Core Indicators 10 Easy Steps User-Friendly Guide and User Friendly California Report

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Created by The California Department of Developmental Services’ Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC) We were lucky enough to support the efforts of the CAC in developing this user guide for understanding the NCI User Friendly data reports. We worked on developing the first version of that report as well. National Core Indicators 10 Easy Steps User-Friendly … Read more

Supported Decision Making A guide for supporters

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by Kate Fulton, Kellie Woodley & Helen Sanderson This guide offers people best practice techniques and tools that may be useful when supporting others with their decision-making. This includes those people who make their own decisions and those who may lack the capacity to do so and where decisions are made in their best interest. … Read more

After the Plan

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Another timeless article written back in the day! byMichael W. Smull Learning how people want to live and then doing nothing with the information is a form of abuse. A good plan not only clarifies what each individual wants but creates the perception that those who participated in the planning will do something about it. … Read more

Habits for highly effective staff – using person-centered thinking in day-to-day work

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by Helen Sanderson To really make a difference to someone’s life – and to ensure they have more choice and control – staff supporting them need to participate in an ongoing loop of listening, learning and action. This can be done through habitually using person-centered thinking tools. These are the foundation of change and they can … Read more

More Than a Meeting: A Guide to the Person-Centered Individual Program Plan

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Originally developed for the Department of Developmental Services by Allen, Shea & Associates This is a large format version of the pocket version we originally developed. Like many of the other documents we keep resurrecting, it’s still pretty spot on. What’s This Guide All About? The Lanterman Act is the law in California that says that … Read more

California Lifestyles

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This was designed to be a short form, self-administered version of the Life Quality Assessment which we developed for DDS in the mid nineties.  Here’s the introduction we used: What is California Lifestyles about? The questions you will find below are designed to help Californians with developmental disabilities look at their own quality of life. … Read more

Facilitated Decision-Making

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by Allen, Shea & Associates and Rhonda Mayer This  is a chapter from a piece titled Learn the Basics, Learn the Process, Apply What You Learn: Service Coordination Orientation and Training Curriculum. Written around the turn of the century, it was developed as a training curriculum for regional center service coordinators. While some of it is certainly dated, other chapters still … Read more