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Leading Practice Resources
Leading Practice Resources
The resources provided below are meant to supplement and provide practical support to organizations striving to meet the Leading Practice Guidelines. Have a resource to suggest? Questions? Contact leanne@abilitiesmanitoba.org.
The Leading Practice Guidelines have been developed to outline the current consensus on leading practice in service delivery. The expected outcomes, should these guidelines be pursued by organizations, are:
- Increased quality of services
- Better consistency of services
- Better outcomes for people
- Shared vision and road map for service delivery
- Competent, stable, confident workforce
- Increased confidence in services
View the Leading Practice Guidelines here.
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What’s Worth Working For: Leadership for Better Quality Human Services – John O’Brien (PDF)
John O'Brien outlines what leaders must do to ensure services improve. He reviews the vision, purpose and activities that organizations must engage in to transform. This would be a helpful…
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Core Practice, General, Inclusion
Citizenship for All: An Accessible Guide by Simon Duffy & Wendy Perez (PDF)
This guide reviews why citizenship for all people is imperative and explores the seven keys to citizenship - purpose, freedom, money, home, help, life and love. This resource is…
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Core Practice, General, Inclusion, Rights & Responsibilities
Five Accomplishments – John O’Brien & Connie Lyle O’Brien
The five accomplishments provide a framework for assessing our ideas about the future. Increasing opportunity in these five areas of life is clearly the intended outcome of the Personal…
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Connection, Contribution & Growth, Core Practice, General, Inclusion, Rights & Responsibilities, Voice, Wellbeing
National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) – Code of Ethics
Direct Support Professionals, agency leaders, policymakers, and people receiving support are urged to read the Code of Ethics and to consider ways that these ethical statements can be…
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Core Practice, General
CQL – Quality in Practice Guides – Accountability
Organizations that support people with disability are expected to be managed professionally and to have systems in place to prove their accountability for the tasks they accept.
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Core Practice, General, Rights & Responsibilities
CQL – Quality in Practice Guides – Data Systems
An organization’s data system is an important tool intended to guide decision-making and provide valuable information about the work and direction of the organization. Check out this…
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Core Practice, General
CQL Webinar - Developing an Integrated Quality Management System
All organizations collect data. In this free webinar, we will explore how to use that data efficiently to promote organizational excellence. You probably collect data on staffing, finances,…
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Core Practice, General