Policy, Program Evaluation, and Research in Disability: Community Support for All (Paperback)

PART I: INTRODUCTION. Qualitative evaluation and research: Toward community support for everyone. PART II: COMMUNITY INTEGRATION: POLICIES TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY AND SYSTEMS CHANGE. "New decades, new decisions": Community integration and deinstitutionalization. "Who is going to choose who will stay?" Garrity vs. Gallen: The role of the court in institutional closure. The Closing of Laconia: From the inside out. Speaking for oneself: A qualitative study of self advocacy and guardianship. "People working together": Local control, health care financing, federal regulations and state policy. "People want the same things we all do:" The story of the area agency in Dover, New Hampshire. PART III: MOVING TOWARD UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO SUPPORT: POLICY IS PERSONAL. Psychiatric survivors and the international self help movement: "User-controlled" personal assistance services in the US. Self advocacy, independent living, and personal assistance services: Perspectives of "consumer experts." Children, youth and adults with brain injuries. Youth and community life: Adult perspectives' on personal assistance services for youth with disabilities. PART IV: HOUSING, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT: POLICY EVALUATION, RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS. The role of family case study research in family policy: Local agency delivery systems. State policy in housing and support: Evaluation and policy analysis of state systems. The role of ethnographies with people, in communities and systems. State and regional policy analysis: Foster care and out-of-home placements with children and adolescents. Organizational case studies: Creating change in hous-ing, families and community support. Toward better futures an quality of lives. Appendix A: Annotated bibliography. Appendix B: Methodological descriptions