MAPS WORKSHOP - Building Capacity for Quality Improvement in Developmental Services

On June 2, 2014, MAPS researchers and staff met in Surrey Place Centre with 11 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to learn how to ask men and women with disabilities if they feel included in their community. Click here to view what we learned.

On June 3, 2014 a group of 70 service providers, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders participated in MAPS’ Workshop on Building Capacity for Quality Improvement in Developmental Services held in Toronto, ON. Click here to read the report on the workshop.

Click the links to view the following: Agenda & participant list; presentations on Principles of Quality Improvement and Data examples from MAPS projects; Continuous quality improvement cycle figure; and a List of personal outcomes indicators. If you would like to be involved in this initiative please complete the NEXT STEPS form and email to [email protected]

The following articles have been published, to view click on the links below:

• Martin, L. & Ouellette-Kuntz, H. (2014) Introduction: Quality Improvement in Ontario’s Developmental Services System. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 20(2), iv-vii.
• Cobigo, V., Martin, L., Lysaght, R., Lunsky, Y., Hickey, R. and Ouellette-Kuntz, H. (2014) Quality improvement in services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Guiding principles. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 20(2), 89-102.