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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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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
M Powered Planning
Cara Milne has some great resources on her website and two great books about assisting people to connect.
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Connection
Friends: Connecting people with disabilities and community members - Angela Novak Amado, PhD
This manual is to help people with disabilities increase community membership and belonging and for promoting relationships with community members. It is written for agency staff but can be…
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Connection
Friends and Relationships - ConnectABILITY.ca
Connectability website has many great resources on a variety of topics including one on Friends and Relationships.
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Connection
75 Ways to Build Community - BetterTogether.org
Community is built through hundreds of little and big actions we take every day. A list of actions that can be taken to help build a sense of community.
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Connection
150 Things you can do to Build Social Capital
Social capital is built through hundreds of little and big actions we take every day. We've gotten you started with a list of nearly 150 ideas, drawn from suggestions made by many people and…
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Connection
Al Condeluci
Al Condeluci has a wealth of resources on social capital.
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Connection
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