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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
Presence to Contribution
This webpage from Helen Sanderson, provides information on how to utilize a helpful person-centred thinking tool called Presence to Contribution. The exercise which you complete with the…
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Connection, Contribution & Growth, Inclusion
Developing Community Connections
Created by Resourcing Inclusive Communities, this workbook provides strategies for assisting a person with a disability to connect with people around shared interests and experiences.
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Connection, Contribution & Growth, Inclusion