News

• NCAPPS Shorts: Culture & Person-Centered Practices

  Jan 12th, 2022

  Check out this resource from our colleagues at NCAPPS. 

  Acknowledging and understanding a person’s racial and cultural identities is essential for providing person-centered supports. But there are few resources that directly address the intersection of culture, language, and identity with person-centered thinking, planning, and practice. For the most part, person-centered planning models and person-centered practices have been developed by white people in a white-dominant culture, with white norms, assumptions, and values. The implications of the “Whiteness” of person-centered practices need to be explored. NCAPPS wants to further this conversation—a conversation that is crucial for systems to build cultural humility and cultural competence into person-centered thinking, planning, and practices.
  
  In a series of short videos, community members from the National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS) share their thoughts on how their racial and cultural identities shape their expectations and views of support systems.
  
  This week, NCAPPS is releasing the first five videos in the Culture and Person-Practices video series. We will be releasing more videos over the next few weeks. Visit the NCAPPS Shorts webpage linked below to view the videos

  See videos here. 

• IMPACT: What Do NCI Data Tell Us About the Characteristics and Outcomes of Older Adults with IDD?

  Jan 11th, 2022

  Check out this new article by NCI team member (and HSRI President Emerita) Val Bradley in the journal IMPACT. Using National Core Indicators data from the 2017-2018 In-Person Survey, this article builds on the NCI-IDD data brief and aims to provide some insights and to identify the characteristics and outcomes of older adults with IDD who receive public support that should be useful in developing policies going forward. 

• National Core Indicators®-IDD NCI Family Surveys COVID-19 Supplement National Report Special Edition

  Dec 13th, 2021

  In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NCI-IDD added a state-optional COVID-19 Supplement to all NCI Surveys. The COVID-19 Supplement is intended to support the understanding of the experience of people with disabilities and their families at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and their interactions with services during that time. Data were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. This Special Edition Report shows individual state and overall national outcomes for the NCI-IDD COVID-19 Supplement questions.

  See report here.