Advocacy
"Every year, thousands of people with disabilities, family members and support professionals in Pennsylvania are interviewed by the Independent Monitoring for Quality (IM4Q) project to learn about the overall quality of life for people who receive support through the Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) in Pennsylvania. The key objective of IM4Q is to provide information that might help improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.The interviews are conducted in each of Pennsylvania's 48 county Mental Health/Intellectual Disabilites programs by 38 select, independent programs throughout the Commonwealth. Interview teams, each including a person with a disability or a family member of a person with a disability, are carefully selected and thoroughly trained before the interviewing begins.
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University developed the program along with stakeholders, and it created the survey, provides training and technical assistance to the interviewers, analyzes the data, and produces an annual statewide summary report along with reports for each county program." |
Vision For Equality- Mission
"To assist and empower people with disabilities and their families to seek quality and satisfaction in their lives as well as equal access to supports and services. WE BELIEVE that all people have a right to live a happy and meaningful life, which include
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The PA Family Network was created under the leadership of Vision for Equality. The PA Family Network serves two critical roles:
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Voice and Vision
"Our teams offer people the opportunity to be more informed about available services, connect to appropriate resources, and Voice their experiences and recommendations to improve services. Speaking out is both a right and empowering. We help people speak out through:
"Our teams offer people the opportunity to be more informed about available services, connect to appropriate resources, and Voice their experiences and recommendations to improve services. Speaking out is both a right and empowering. We help people speak out through:
- Participating in surveys, focus groups and interviews
- Sharing their recovery/resiliency stories
- Disseminating reports developed from the surveys to providers, managed care companies, counties and communities to promote change where needed