Community Integration

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II. Community Integration (see also "Residential Care" and "Deinstitutionalization")

AFSCME, Opening New Doors: The Transition from Institutional to Community Care, (undated).

Ager, A.; Emerson, E.; Mansell, J.; Beasley, F.; McConkey, R.; Lewis, D. R.; Bruininks, R. H.; Thurlow, M. L.;  McGrew, K. S.; and others, “Community integration, adjustment, evaluation and costs,”   Key issues in mental retardation research:  Proceedings of the Eighth Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency (IASSMD), 1990.

Amado, A. N. (Ed.), Friendships and community connections between people with and without developmental disabilities, Paul H. Brookes Publishing, Balimore, 1993.

Arsenault, C. C., Let's get together: A handbook in support of building relationships between individuals with developmental disabilities and their community, Boulder, CO: Developmental Disabilities, 1990.

Baker, F. & Intagliata, J., "Quality of life in the evaluation of community support systems," Evaluation and Program Planning, 5, 69-79, 1982.

Bauer, Louise, Community Living for the Developmentally Disabled, National Council of State Legislatures, Denver, CO, 1993.

Biklen, D., “In support of families,” in S. J. Taylor, R. Bogdan, & J. A. Racino (Eds.), Life in the community: Case studies of organizations supporting people with disabilities (pp. 35-53), Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1991.

Birenbaum, Arnold, et al., "Symposium on Community Programs for People with Mental Retardation," Mental Retardation, v24 n3, Jun 1986. 1986

Bogdan, Robert, Building Stronger Communities for All:  Thoughts About Community Participation for People With Developmental Disabilities, Center on Human Policy, Syracuse University, 1999.

Bookser, S. M., Woodard, H. L., & Pederson, E. L. (Eds.), The community integration of persons labeled as dually diagnosed: Issues and models, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders, 1991.  

Braddock, D., ”Community integration,” in Walcoff & Associates (Eds.), Final report: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research long-range planning process, 71-112, Alexandria , VA, 1992.

Braddock, D., “Community integration in mental health and developmental disabilities,” in Proceedings, National Conference on Dual Diagnosis, Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 1990.

Braddock, D., “Challenges in community integration,” in L. Heal, J. Haney, & A.R. Novak (Eds.) Integration of developmentally disabled individuals into the community, second edition, 1-18. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing Company, 1988.

Braddock, D., Hemp, R., Parish, S., & Rizzolo, M.C., “Growth in state commitments for community services: Significance of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waiver,”  Mental Retardation, 38, 186-189, 2000. 

Braddock, D., Financing community integration in Wisconsin and the United States, Wisconsin Developmental Disabilities Planning Council and University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, Madison, WI and Chicago, 1986.

Braddock, D., & Hemp, R., “Toward family and community: Mental retardation services in Massachusetts, New England, and the United States,” Mental Retardation, 35, 241-256, 1997.

Braddock, D. & Fujiura, G., “Politics, public policy and the development of community mental retardation services in the United States,” American Journal on Mental Retardation, 95, 369-387, 1991.

Braddock, D., Hemp, R., & Howes, R., “Financing community services in the United States: Results of a nationwide study,” Mental Retardation, 25, 21-30, 1987.

Braddock, D. & Hemp, R., “Toward family and community: Mental retardation services in Massachusetts and New England,” in D. Braddock, R. Hemp, S. Parish, and J. Westrich (Eds.), The state of the states in developmental disabilities, fifth edition, 55-66, American Association on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C., 1998.

Burke, Peter, “Best of Both Worlds,” Social work today, v 22 n 39, June 13, 1991.

Burnim, Ira, Mathis, Jennifer, “After Olmstead v. L.C.: Enforcing the Integration Mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Clearinghouse review, v 33 n 11 / 12, March, 2000.

Carnaby, S., "Reflections on social integration for people with intellectual disability: does interdependence have a role?" Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23, 3, 219-228, 1998.

Center on Human Policy, Resources and Reports on Community Inclusion, Syracuse University, 2000.

Chen, T., Bruininks, R. H., Lakin, C. L., & Hayden, M. (1993). “Personal competencies and community participation in small community residential programs: a multiple discriminant analysis,” American Journal on Mental Retardation, (3), 390-399, 1993.

Collins, Peggy, Improving the quality of community-based services and supports in California for persons with developmental disabilities: a report of the Senate Select Committee on Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health, Senator Mike Thompson, chair and the Assembly Human Services Committee, Assembly member Dion Aroner, chair; Senate Publications, Sacramento, CA 1998.

Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities, The third half of life: Valuing lifelong inclusion for people with developmental disabilities, East Hartford, 1994.  

Council for Exceptional Children, Reintegrating Mentally Retarded People into the Community: An Annotated Bibliography of Print and Audiovisual Information and Training Materials, Reston, VA, 1975

Cox, C and Pearson, M., Made to care: the case for residential and village communities for people with a mental handicap. London: The Rannock Trust, 1995.

Crapps, John M., Stoneman, Zolinda “Friendship patterns and community integration of family care residents,” Research in developmental disabilities, v 10 n 2, 1989.

Dossa, Parin A., "Ethnography as Narrative Discourse: Community Integration of People with Developmental Disabilities," International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, v15 n1, 1992.

Fanning, John, A Common Sense Approach for Community Living Arrangements for the Mentally Retarded, Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1975.

From Being in the Community to Being Part of the Community, Summary of the Proceedings and Recommendations of a Leadership Institute on Community Integration for People with Developmental Disabilities, Washington, D.C., November 21-22, 1988.

Fujiura, G.T., Gottesmann, H., & Braddock, D., The Illinois community integration survey: Report on the successful integration of formerly institutionalized individuals with developmental disabilities, Report to the Illinois Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities by The University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation and Public Policy Analysis Program, 1987.

Fujiura, G.T., “Research perspectives and the community living experience,” in M.F. Hayden & B. Abery (Eds.), Challenges for a service system in transition: Ensuring quality community experiences for persons with developmental disabilities, 23-42, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1994.

Fullwood, D., Chances and choices: Making integration work, Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 1990.

Gaylord, Vicki, Ed., "Social Inclusion of Adults with Developmental Disabilities," Impact, v10 n3 Fall 1997.

Grant, Gordon, “Need for Respite-Care Services for Caregivers of Persons With Mental Retardation,” American journal of mental retardation, v 94 n 6, May, 1990.

Haney, J. and Novak, A., Community Integration for People with Severe Disabilities, P. H. Brookes Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1988.

Hayden, M. F.,"Adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities waiting for community-based services in the U.S.," Policy Research Brief, Vol. 4., No.3, University of MN, Institute on Community Integration, Minneapolis, MN, 1992.

Hayden, M. F., & Abery, B. H. (Eds.), Challenges for a service system in transition: Ensuring quality community experiences for persons with developmental disabilities, Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 1994.

Hayden, Mary F.; Et al., "Waiting for Community Services: Support and Service Needs of Families with Adult Members Who Have MR/DD," Policy Research Brief, v4 n2 Nov 1992.

Hazel, Robin, et al., A Community approach to an integrated service system for children with special needs, P.H. Brookes Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, 1988.

Heal, L., Haney, J., and Novak, A., Eds, Integration of Developmentally Disabled Individuals into the Community, P.H. Brookes, Baltimore, MD, 1988.

Heal, L.W., “Evaluating residential alternatives,” In L.W. Heal, J. L. Haney & A. R. Novak (Eds.), Integration of developmentally disabled adults into the community (pp. 89- 124), Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1988.

Heal, L. W., Haney, J. I., & Amado, A. R. N. (Eds), Integration of developmentally disabled individuals into the community, Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 1998. 

Hemp, R., “State agency and community provider perspectives on financing community services,” in M.F. Hayden and B. Abery (Eds.), Challenges for a service system in transition: Ensuring quality community experiences for persons with developmental disabilities, 265-288, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1994.

Hemp, R., Braddock, D., Haasen, K., & Bachelder, L., Creative financing of community services: The community provider perspective, The University of Illinois at Chicago, University Affiliated Program in Developmental Disabilities, Chicago, 1991.

Hemp, R., Financing community services for persons with disabilities: State agency and community provider perspectives (Policy Research Brief), University of Minnesota, Center on Residential Services and Community Living, Minneapolis, 1992. 

Holmes, David L., "Community-Based Services for Children and Adults with Autism: The Eden Family of Programs," Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v20 n3, Sep, 1990.

Holtz, P., & Kultgen, P., Inclusion of older adults within everyday community life [video-recording],  Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, Bloomington, IN, 1992.  

Hudson-Allez, G and Barrett, J  “Attitudes to people with intellectual disabilities moving into ordinary houses: what the neighbours say,” Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 9, 1, 1996.

Hughes, Jeffrey & Segall, Alexander, Community Adjustment of Former Residents of the Manitoba Development Centre National Welfare Grants Program, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, 1988.

Ittenbach, Richard F.; Et al., "Community Integration of Young Adults with Mental Retardation: A Multivariate Analysis of Adjustment," Research in Developmental Disabilities, v14 n4, Jul-Aug 1993.

Ittenbach, Richard F.; et al., Community Adjustment of Young Adults with Mental Retardation: A Developmental Perspective, Paper presented at the University of Minnesota Sport Science Institute, Minneapolis, 1991.

Jacobson, J.W. et al., "Assessing community environmental effects upon people with developmental disabilities: Satisfaction as an outcome measure," Adult Residential Care Journal, 4(2), 1991.

Janicki, Matthew P.; Keefe, Robert M., Integration Experiences Casebook: Program Ideas in Aging and Developmental Disabilities, New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1992.

Janicki, Matthew P., Building the Future: Planning and Community Development in Aging and Developmental Disabilities, New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1991

Keith, K.D., "Quality of Life: Issues in community integration," in R.L. Shalock, Editor, Quality of Life: Perspectives & Issues, American Association on Mental Retardation, Washington, D.C., 1990.

Knapp, Martin et al., Care in the Community: Challenge and Demonstration, Ashgate Publishing Co., 1992.

Kraemer, Bonnie R., Blacher, Jan, Marshal, Michael P., “Adolescents With Severe Disabilities: Family, School, and Community Integration,” The journal of the association for persons with severe handicaps, v 22 n 4, Winter, 1997.

Lakin, C, A review of literature of home and community services of persons with mental retardation and related conditions, Fairfax: Research and Training Centre, Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, 1999.

Lakin, Charles and Bruininks, Robert, Eds, Strategies for Achieving Community Integration of Developmentally Disabled Citizens, P.H. Brookes Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1985.

Legault, J.R., "A study of the relationship of community living situation to independence and satisfaction in the lives of mentally retarded adults," Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 36, 1992.

Lord, John and Pedlar, Alison, "Life in the community: Four years after the closure of an institution," Mental Retardation 29, 1991.

Luginbill, Michael; Spiegler, Allan, "Specialized Foster Family Care: A Community-Based Program for Children with Special Needs," Children Today, v18 n1, Jan-Feb 1989.

Mahon, Michael, and Erika Bockstael, “Social Integration, Leisure, and Individuals with-Intellectual Disability,” Parks & Recreation, v35 i4 p25, April, 2000.

Malin, Nigel A., Implementing Community Care, Open University Press, 1994.

Mallory, Bruce and Herrick, Susan, Ramps are not enough: the movement of children with mental retardation from institutional to community-based care, Dept. of Education, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1986.

Mitchell, D., Braddock, D., & Hemp, R., “Synthesis of research on the costs of institutional and community-based care,” Journal of Mental Health Administration, 17, 171-183, 1990.

Nisbet, J. (Ed.), Natural supports in school, at work, and in the community for people with severe disabilities, Paul H. Brookes, Baltimore, 1992.  

Nisbet, Jan and David Hagner, Editors, Part of the Community. Strategies for Including Everyone, Paul H. Brookes, Baltimore, 2000.

Peck, Charles, Odom, Samuel, and Bricker, Diane, Editors, Integrating young children with disabilities into community programs: ecological perspectives on research and implementation, Paul H. Brookes, Baltimore, MD, 1993.

Perske, R., New life in the neighborhood: How persons with retardation or other disabilities can help make a good community better,  Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, 1980.

Perske, R., Circle of friends: People with disabilities and their friends enrich the lives of one another, Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, 1988.  

Pilling, Doria, and Graham Watson., Editors, Evaluating quality in services for disabled and older People, Rehabilitation Resource Centre, City University, J. Kingsley, London, Bristol, PA, 1995.

Powers, Michael D, "Promoting Community-Based Services: Implications for Program Design, Implementation, and Public Policy," Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), v11 n4, Winter, 1986.

Racino, Julie Ann, et al., Moving into the 1990s: A Policy Analysis of Community Living for Adults with Developmental Disabilities in South Dakota, Syracuse University, Center on Human Policy, 1989.

Racino, Julie Ann  et al., Housing, Support and Community: Choices and Strategies for Adults With Disabilities (The Community Participation Series, Vol 2), Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1992.

Racino, J. A., Walker, P., O'Connor, S., & Taylor, S. J. (Eds.), Housing, support, and community: Choices and strategies for adults with disabilities. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 1993.

Reynolds, Jo, editor, Attainment's community success: an illustrated guide to community access, Attainment Co, Verona, WI, 1997.

Schwartz, David, Crossing the River: Creating a Conceptual Revolution in Community and Disability, Brookline Books, Cambridge, MA, 1992.

Searl, Julia, Community Integration Policy and Practice Abstracts, Fourth Edition, Updated by Perri Harris, Research and Training Center on Community Living, Syracuse University, May, 1998.

Seltzer, G.B., "Community residential adjustment: The relationship among environment, performance and satisfaction," American Journal on Mental Deficiency 85 (6), 1981.

Shavelle, Robert; Strauss, David, "Mortality of Persons with Developmental Disabilities after Transfer into Community Care: A 1996 Update," American Journal on Mental Retardation, v104 n2, Mar 1999.

Shields, Craig, Strategies: a practical guide for dealing with professionals and human service systems, Human Services Press, Brookes Pub. Co, Baltimore, MD, 1989.

Shoultz, Bonnie, Center on Human Policy, A Home of One's Own (Fact Sheet, the Arc of the United States).

Sigelman, Carol K., Community Integration of Disabled People--Attitudinal & Behavioral Reactions of the Nondisabled, Washington, DC: National Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Research Review, 1983. 

Singer, George H. S.; Et al., "Evaluation of Community-Based Support Services for Families of Persons with Developmental Disabilities," Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), v14 n4, Win 1989.

Sinson, Janice C, Care in the community for young people with learning disabilities: the client's voice, J. Kingsley,  London, Bristol, PA, 1995.

Sinson, Janice C., “Normalization and Community Integration of Adults With Severe Mental Handicap Relocated To Group Homes,” Journal of developmental and physical disabilities, v 6 n 3, September, 1994.

Smalley, Kimberly A.; et al., "Effect of a Staff Training Package on Increasing Community Integration for People with Severe Disabilities," Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, v32 n1, Mar, 1997.

Suelzle, Marijean; Keenan, Vincent, "Parents' Current Satisfactions and Projected Needs: Community Based Services for Developmentally Disabled Children," paper presented at Family Support Unit's Conference for Service Providers, Countryside Center for the Handicapped (Barrington, Illinois); and American Academy on Mental Retardation Annual Meeting (Miami Beach, Florida), 1979.

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Taylor, Steven J. Editor, The Nonrestrictive Environment: On Community Integration for People with Severe Disabilities, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 1987.

Taylor, S. J., Bogdan, R., & Racino, J. A. (Eds.), Life in the community: Case studies of organizations supporting people with disabilities, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1991.

Taylor, Steven, Robert Bogdan, and Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Editors, The variety of community experience: qualitative studies of family and community life, P.H. Brooks Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1995. 

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Walker, Pam, "From Community Presence to Sense of Place: Community Experiences of Adults with Developmental Disabilities," JASH 24(1), 1999.

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