Project Description:
The goal of Project Living Well is to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), both those using HCBS services and those waiting for services, to live a life of their choosing in an environment that promotes independence, health, and healthy relationships with family, friends, staff, and supportive community members. The project will accomplish this by implementing a replicable and sustainable model of: 1) evidence-based and informed capacity building strategies that will increase knowledge and skills of people with IDD and their supporters and generate policy change; and 2) community monitoring that will align and augment disparate monitoring and quality initiatives to improve the identification of health and safety risks for people with IDD. As a result, people with IDD will have increased independence, social capital, self-determination, community integration, productivity, and participation in abuse prevention, person-centered practices, peer support, career discovery, and small residence housing innovations. Project Living Well will produce, at minimum, a series of model capacity building and monitoring implementation fidelity guides; annual reports of progress; and a final, summative report of project outcomes and impact.
Target Audience:
Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Adults with Disabilities, Legislators/Policy Makers
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Geographic Areas, Rural/Remote
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Single-County, Mulit-County, Regional, National