Annual plan for Mental Health Services, Developmental Disabilities Services.

As mandated by the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act (20 ILCS 1705).

Illinois State plan: Developmental disabilities services and facilities construction act of 1970, P.L. 91-517.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ensuring Quality Services for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities and their Families within the BabyNet Early Intervention System: An Analysis of Current and Needed Resources

This report prioritizes the targeted, additional resources First Steps and system stakeholders believe will be necessary to ensure the BabyNet system earns a federal designation of “meets requirements” for the first time in its 25 year history. It lists key recommendations to help meet those requirements.

An analysis of the systemic aspects of rights training for people with intellectual disabilities

Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) as a group have been subject to abuse. Individuals with ID need to be made aware of their rights. The 3Rs: Rights, Respect and Responsibility Human Rights Project is promoting rights awareness in individuals with ID, their caregivers and family members. To be effeCtive, abuse prevention must include support from the whole organization and its processes. This research evaluated the impact of the 3Rs initiative on the organization. It focused particularly on descriptions of organizational change perceived by full-time staff and managers in response to the initiation of the 3Rs Project. Behavioural interviews were conducted and a thematic analysis was used to describe changes in the organizational culture and behavioural mechanisms maintaining these changes. Systemic barriers to change were also explored. The results indicate that the Association is effectively implementing and supporting the rights-based philosophy.

Teaching persons with intellectual disabilities and limited receptive and expressive communication how to recognize and assert their human rights

Persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) are far more likely to be abused than the general population, but there is little research on teaching people with ID about their rights. The goal of this study was to teach four participants with ID and limited communication abilities about their human rights by training them on specific rights topics. The training program included icebreaker activities, instruction on rights concepts, watching and answering questions about videotaped scenarios of rights restrictions, watching and answering questions about role pl ay scenarios of rights restrictions, and responding to brief, low risk in situ rights restrictions imposed by the researchers. Participant performance did not improve significantly or consistently from baseline to training on the questions asked about the videotaped or the role play scenarios, but two of three participants demonstrated defmite improvements in responding to in situ rights restrictions.

Annual plan ... of the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.

Title varies slightly.

Programs for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Includes a directory of agencies and organizations providing services to individuals with developmental disabilities in Illinois.

Tracks of Change - the changing value commitments of non-profit organisations

If nonprofit organisations are moving towards more market oriented ways of operating, is this changing the traditional meanings and value of commitments associated with their activities? This article discusses the findings of a research project conducted by the University of Queensland into the impact that changes in government policies are having on the community services sector, in particular disability services. The values and belief systems traditionally associated with the sector were found to be fundamentally unaltered.

Seguro de fallecimiento con anticipación parcial de la prestación por dependencia.

En este trabajo proponemos un seguro de fallecimiento en el que al asegurado se le anticipa parte de la cuantía del seguro en el caso que se convierta en dependiente o agrave su situación de dependencia. El importe del anticipo estará en función del grado de dependencia que haya alcanzado. El asegurado podrá utilizar este anticipo para financiar la adquisición, o adecuación, de una determinada infraestructura como consecuencia de la falta de autonomía. Calcularemos las primas así como las provisiones matemáticas y realizaremos la comparación con el seguro de fallecimiento tradicional; también plantearemos la problemática de la carencia.

A Study of role conflict, role ambiguity, locus of control, job satisfaction and participation in decision making among front-line vocational service workers for mentally retarded adults

This study was an investigation of individual and organizational factors, as perceived by front-line vocational service workers from Adult Rehabilitation Centres (ARC Industries) for mentally retarded adults. The specific variables which were measured included role conflict/role ambiguity (role factors), internal/external locus of control (individual differences), job satisfaction with work and supervision (job attitudes) and participation in deci~ion making (organizational factor). The exploration of these constructs was conducted by means of self-report questionnaires which were completed by sixty-nine out of a total of ninety front-line employees. The surveys were distributed in booklet form to nine distinct rehabilitation facilities from St. Catharines, West Lincoln, Greater Niagara, Port Colborne, WeIland, Fort Erie, Hamilton, Guelph and Brantford. The survey data was evaluated by the statisti.cal Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) which used the Pearson Product Moment Correlation procedure and a compar~son of means test. A comparison of correlation coefficients test was also conducted. This statistical procedure was calculated mathematically. The results obtained from the statistical evaluation confirmed the prediction that self-reported measures of participation in decision making and satisfaction (work and supervision) would be negatively correlated with role conflict and role ambiguity. As well, the speculation that perceived satisfaction (work and supervision) would be positively correlated with participation in decision making was empirically supported. Internal and external locus of control did not contribute to a significant difference in r~sponses to role perceptions (conflict and ambiguity) , satisfaction (work and supervision) or the correlational relationship between participation in decision making and satisfaction (work and supervision). Overall, the findings from this study substantiated the importance of examining employee perceptions in the workplace and the interrelationships among individual and organizational variables. This research was considered a contribution to the general area of occupational stress and to the study of individuals in work organizations.

Effectiveness of personal planning for residents re-entering the community during the facility initiative in Ontario

This paper reports on the relocation of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) from large-scale provincially run institutions that took place in Ontario as part of the Facility Initiative. Three case studies were examined in order to report on this process as experienced by those who lived and worked through it. Specifically, the planning process conducted by the Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS) to assist each person with hislher transition to community living was examined using the current standard of practice in person- centered planning approaches. Effectiveness was evaluated as the ability to apply a person-centered approach across settings and people, as well as what factors facilitated or hindered its application. Results show that, in general, the personal plans do not appear to reflect the pre-transition experience of the person. Also, the transitional planning process did not appear person-centered nor facilitate further person-centered planning in the community.

Annual revenue report /

"Effective with last year's report (Fiscal Year 1998) the Department of Human Services issued its first Annual Revenue Report. The report includes revenue from the Division of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services, the Office of Rehabilitation Services, the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, the Division of Community Operations, the Division of Transitional Services, and the Division of Community Health and Prevention."

Illinois state plan for the developmentally disabled, 1981.

As amended by P.L. 95-602, Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act.

Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week

This proclamation from Governor Nikki Haley proclaims September 11-17, 2016 as Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week.

ACCESS FOR ALL VOTERS In South Carolina

The State Election Commission and your county voter registration and elections office work to ensure every voter has full access to the voting process. This paper explains assistance in voting, curbside voting, voter registration, the design of the voting machine and how to get additional information regarding voting.