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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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Rights! - ConnectABILITY.ca
Community Living Toronto website has a number of great resources on Rights.
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Rights & Responsibilities
Advancing the UN CRPD - ARCH Disability Law Centre
ARCH Disability Law Centre’s resource on advancing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Rights & Responsibilities
Bill of Rights Curriculum - Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
Minnesota's Olmstead Plan was developed to ensure that people with disabilities are living, learning, working, and enjoying life in the most integrated setting. Prevention of Abuse and Neglect…
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Rights & Responsibilities
The Three Rs – Rights, Risk, and Respect - CQL Capstone Newsletter
Challenging traditional approaches of protection and paternalism. The Three Rs – Rights, Risk, and Respect – all play an important, interconnected, and interdependent role in…
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Workbook - Enabling Risk
Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First has been developed specifically for disability support workers. Enabling people to take risks is an integral part of disability support work. It is also…
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Rights & Responsibilities
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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Al Condeluci
Al Condeluci has a wealth of resources on social capital.
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Connection
Resources for Supporting Daily and Major Life Decisions - The ARC Centre for Future Planning
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) must make many daily and major life decisions, just like people without disabilities. These decisions can range from making simple…
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Voice
The Vowels of Choice
An easy to understand video resource on what it means to have choice and to make choices.
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Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) Courses
AAC Essential Courses are designed to increase your basic understanding of AAC for your particular role. There are four different courses. (Free) Lessons are short and you can do them whenever…
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Voice