Living Well Grants
Evaluation Reports Available
During the last two decades, the number of individuals with
intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) living in community
settings and receiving home and community based services (HCBS) increased
dramatically. While this led to better outcomes, including people with I/DD
making more of their own choices and being a part of the community, there
are great variations in the accessibility of quality HCBS across the
country.
In 2017 and 2018 ACL awarded Living Well grants to help
develop and test model approaches for enhancing the quality, effectiveness,
and monitoring of home and community-based services (HCBS) for people with
developmental disabilities. These Model Approaches for Living Well grants,
awarded as Projects of National Significance by ACL’s Administration on
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, are focused on building the
capacity of HCBS systems and enhancing community monitoring to prevent abuse,
neglect, and exploitation. Each grantee has designed one or more
models integrating community monitoring and capacity building with the goal
of enhancing health, safety, integration, and independence of individuals
with I/DD living in the community.
The Lewin Group (Lewin), as a subcontractor to New Editions
Consulting, initiated the cross-site evaluation of all eight grantees from
cohorts one and two in 2018. The cross-site evaluation of the Living
Well grants focused on eight key features, organized into three categories.
The evaluation has produced the first annual report broken into several
interrelated products:
Key Features of the Living Well Grants:
Projects of
National Significance focus on the most pressing issues
affecting people with developmental disabilities and their families.
Through the projects, ACL supports the development of national and state
policy and awards grants and contracts that enhance the independence,
productivity, inclusion, and integration of people with developmental
disabilities.
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