Moving From Facility-Based to Community-Based Programs in the Time of COVID-19: Best Practices and Strategies

The coronavirus has presented unprecedented challenges to disability services agencies and has caused many in our field to reimagine the way services are offered, including moving away from facility-based programs employment toward individualized, community-based employment and community life engagement supports. The Arc and ICI developed toolkits to guide organizational transformation and offers technical assistance to support disability services agencies to switch from providing facility-based to individualized, community-based employment and community life engagement supports.

Download the presentation here.

Speakers:

  • Jennifer Sulewski, Ph.D., FAAIDD, Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)
  • Cindy Thomas, M.S., CRC, Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)
  • Jaimie Timmons, MSW, Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)

For further questions, please email leblois@thearc.org.