Background Information and Philosophy

What is self-determination? What are self-directed supports?

Self-Determination: The Most Natural Support (On-line seminar)
Long-Term Care: (Report) Consumer-Directed Services Under Medicaid
Self-Determination: Is a Rose by Any Other Name Still a Rose? by Ann P. Turnbull and Rud Turnbull, University of Kansas
Consumer-directed Services at Home: A New Model for Persons with Disabilities, by A.E. Benjamin. This article discusses the question, “How can consumer-directed programs be cost-effective, flexible and responsive, while meeting standards of accountability in the use of public funds?”
People First: The consumers in consumer direction, by Marisa Scala and Tom Nerney
Framework for Individualized Funding, by Duncan H. Blackman, M. A., registered psychologist. This paper provides an overview to individualized funding and specifically reviews how this concept is implemented in Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and the United States as self determination.

The Extent of Consumer-Directed Funding by MR/DD State Agencies in Day and Employment Services (Research to Practice Article)

Consumer-directed services: Lessons and implications for integrated systems of care (article)
Integrated care: meaning, logic, applications, and implications (discussion paper)

Stories of Success: Using Networking and Mentoring Relationships in Career Planning for Students with Disabilities and Their Families (article)
Self-Determination and Struggle in the Lives of Adolescents (Research to Practice Article)

Hidden Treasures: Building Community Connections by Engaging the Gifts of People on Welfare, People with Disabilities, People with Mental Illness, Older Adults, Young People, by Susan Rans of the Asset Based Community Development Institute.