Maximizing Disability Inclusion in Your Program Ray Riordan Paula Sotnik Chad Gobert November 27 th, 2012

Maximizing Disability Inclusion in Your

Program

Ray RiordanPaula SotnikChad Gobert

November 27th, 2012

www.serviceandinclusion.org

Toll-free hotline: 888-491-0326 (voice/TTY)

National Partnerships

Overview of the Day – The Morning

Identify Strengths and Needs Using the inclusion indicators to begin to assess your program’s inclusion

Determine Priority AreasUsing the inclusion indicators to identify priorities to address

Create a PlanUsing a logic model to create a plan that addresses your priority areas

Overview of the Day – The AfternoonPartnering to Work Toward Inclusion

Building mutually beneficial partnerships that help your program become more inclusive

Identifying Key ResourcesMaximizing resources available to support and assist your inclusion efforts

Preparing to Implement Your PlanLooking at plans for inclusion efforts holistically

Checking Your ProgressCreating a plan to work together as you implement your plan to measure and document progress

What are Your Burning Questions about Measuring Inclusion?

How do you go from wanting to be more

inclusive to actually being more inclusive?

And how do you quantify your efforts?

“I have an inclusive program, and I can prove it!”

Write examples of “indicators” you would look for in each of the areas listed.

•Have we come to a common idea of what “inclusion” means? •What would you look for as “indicators” of an inclusive program?

The view- From 50,000 feet

You are here.You are here.

The Larger Context• Evidence-based programming is an

imperative in today’s public and private sectors

• National service programs must develop performance management systems that allow them to gather data that demonstrate measureable results; and that allow them to tell their stories

CNCS Strategic Plan 2011-2015

• Consistent with the ‘evidence-based’ approach to programming

• Identifies Strategic Goals and Priorities• Identifies performance measures or

indicators that will allow CNCS to gather data, demonstrate results and tell the national service story

CNCS Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Goal 2– Strengthen national service so participants engaged in CNCS-supported program consistently find satisfaction, meaning and opportunity

• Objective 1 - Make CNCS supported national service opportunities accessible and attractive to Americans of ALL backgrounds

Commitment to Inclusion

Goal 2 reiterates the Agency’s mission -- Provide Opportunities for ALL Americans to engage in service to their communities – and reinforces its commitment to inclusion

How will we know that we are making progress toward our goals?

Performance Measurement Indicators – specifically as it relates to the inclusion of

Persons with Disabilities

Filling Your Toolbox with the Right Tools for the Job

• Identify Strengths and Needs and Determine Priority Areas

• Tool: Inclusion Indicators

• Create a Plan• Tool: Logic Model

• Implement Your Plan• Tool: Implementing Your Plan

Template

• Checking Your Progress• Tool: Assessing the Partnership

Process Worksheet

Measuring Continuous Improvements Toward Inclusion




Performance Measurement Indicators for Disability Inclusion

•What are your goals/desired outcomes for disability inclusion?

•How would you know if/when you are making progress toward your goals?

•Can you tell how much progress you are making at any given point in time?

•What do you do (i.e. activities, strategies) to make your program inclusive, attractive, accessible?

Introducing a tool “Indicators of an Inclusive Service and Volunteer Organization”

•Provides a framework to identify and establish elements that are essential to a comprehensively inclusive organization/program.

•Can be used by an organization/program to plan, develop, enhance, measure and demonstrate practices that engage and support members and volunteers with disabilities.

History of the Inclusion Indicators

This tool was developed using: •AmeriCorps: New Program Start-Up Guide*•NSIP’s Accessibility Checklist*•Systems Thinking ~ a Comprehensive Approach to Disability Inclusion in National Service and Volunteerism - Building the Model from NSIP’s 2009 Leadership Institute*•Arizona’s inclusion standards•USAID’s checklist*

Quality Indicators

• Help you identify strengths so you can tell the story of your inclusion efforts

• Help you identify areas for improvement so you can target your improvement efforts

Identify Strengths and NeedsIdentify Strengths and Needs

Inclusion Indicators

Overall structure: – Divided into six sections– Each section has a list of indicators– Legal requirements are in bold – For each indicator, mark to what extent

you are currently meeting the indicator– Each section asks you to identify three

strengths and three areas where you’d like to improve


Inclusion IndicatorsIdentify Strengths and NeedsIdentify Strengths and Needs

These inclusion indicators are still draft. •Your feedback and input will help us to develop the final product

•Today and as we move forward, please let us know what you think!

o Comments gathered todayo Feedback from your brainstorm earliero Call or email NSIP after the session to

share your continuing comments

Please Sign Up for the Area You’re Interested In!

1. Members and Volunteers2. Leadership and Staff3. Policies and Procedures4. Program Monitoring and Evaluation5. Community Partners6. Administration and Finance


Using the Quality Indicators

1. Individually, use the measures to assess your program.

2. As a small group, discuss the measures with your table

– Discuss your findings about your own programs.

– What areas for improvement do you have in common?

– How might you change/add to the measures in your section?


What will you work on together to address today?

As a small group, •Please identify a measure or cluster of measures you’d like to work together to address today. •You will create a plan for how your programs can address these measures using the partners, resources and tools available to you.

Determine Priority Areas

Through Logic!

Program planning Intended results

Create a PlanCreate a Plan

What Tools Can You Use to Prove Intended Results?

Measurement tools:SurveyFocus GroupLogsAttendance sheets/evaluationsActivity formsDirect observation

And many more…

Example: I want to be healthier so I can play with my kidsCreate a PlanCreate a Plan


1st2nd 3rd4th5th 6th

W.K. Kellogg Foundation. (2004). Logic model development guide. Accessed from: http://www.compact.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/LogicModelGuidepdf1.pdf

-Walk around the track every day after work-Eat healthier meals.

-Gym membership -an “App” on my phone that helps me count calories.

I cannot play with my kids, so I need to lose 40lbs.

By the end of the third week, I can jog around the track in 2 minutes.

Decrease my weight on a weekly basis by 2lbs.

After 5 months, my cholesterol is down and my doctor has taken me off medication.

When Developing a Plan…

1. Involve partners in the process.

2. Start the plan where it makes sense.

3. Keep it simple. Keep it brief.

4. Look at what will actually occur.

5. Be ready to modify.


Your Indicator StrengthsCreate a PlanCreate a Plan


How would you use this model help you demonstrate your strengths in

inclusion?

Apply this Model to “Areas for Improvement”

As a group, take the indicator(s) you identified for improvement and create a plan that outlines:

1.What inclusive efforts you would like to improve on, and2.How you will measure that improvement in inclusion.

What is a team;what is collaboration;

what is a partnership?

“Unnatural act between unconsenting adults”

Minkle, M., Community organizing and community building for health

1. The best team I ever served on was/is…2. It was/is great because…

1. My worse team experience was/is…2. It was/is “not so hot” because…

Partnerships ~ a sample…Because of team partnerships, we have successfully enrolled two

members with ID in a health-related AmeriCorps program…we work together to establish this particular program as a model of successful inclusion practices.

…Bring national service and disability orgs together, have concrete conversations to talk about how to make it possible for pwds to volunteer around the state.

…Connections made between programs & community organizations serving those with disabilities…products have been developed over the last year.

…Creation of the Better Communities Include Everyone Recognition Program.

more….

…Development of Fall Service Day grant competition to ensure service projects are inclusive and increased ability to promote and recruit reasonable accommodations.

…Creating our strategic plan and some of the in-roads with voc rehab services.

…Regional trainings between disability opry's and AmeriCorps.

…Partner with 15 disability organizations to share outreach events.

Partnering – a recipe for success

1. Identifying the right partners•What are we trying to accomplish?•What types of partners/organizations can help us to achieve our goal?•What do we want in a partner?•What do we NOT want in a partner?•What resources do we need? What resources can we provide?•Do we need a partner or a short term collaborator?


2. Be clear on the what’s and the how’s of partnering•Break down the silos, and do it again•Create a strategic plan•Identify a common vision, goal(s), objectives and action workplan (who, what, how, where)•Implement a communication guidelines and a plan; be consistent•Discuss (frequently) benefits to all partners•Celebrate and recognize

3. Assess the partnering process• Do all the partners understand and agree with

the goals, roles, responsibilities and benefits?• Are there champions at the senior levels? Are

they committed, proud and vocal?• Are communications open, timely, user friendly

and effective?• Is there a clear decision-making process?• Do partners participate consistently? Do they

participate equally in sharing, contributing ideas and decision-making?

• Are activities implemented according to plan? • Do partners reassess, renew and revitalize?• Are outcomes being measured?


Strategic Partnering: Putting it all together

• How can you strategically include partners in your plan?

• Partners are more than “inputs”!– How can partners help you identify needs? – How can you leverage resources to get the

inputs you need? – How can you collaborate with partners on

activities? – What outputs would be helpful to both you

and your partners? – What shared outcomes can you work toward?


Addressing the Gaps: Identifying and Leveraging

Resources

• What do you need to implement your plan? – Products and Information

• Please see the resource list in the workbook for national resources where you can find helpful products and information.

– Additional resources • What are some creative ways you can locate

and secure additional sources of funding, services, intellectual capital and other resources?


Implement Your Plan

As you and your partners work to implement your plan, it’s important to:

•Clearly define each task•Establish “due dates” or “target dates”•Clarify who is responsible to complete the task•Share progress

Coordinating Efforts and Maximizing Impact

Ensuring You’re Headed for Measurable Outcomes

As you work with your partners to implement your plan, it’s essential to stop and check your progress. •Revisit the outcomes in your plan

– Are you meeting them or progressing toward them? • If yes, document examples of the outcome(s)• If no, Identify and address any barriers

Check Your Progress

Remaining Questions?

What do you still need to know?What additional resources do you need? What are your concerns?

We’ve Only Just Begun…

How do you plan to use what you’ve learned when you return home? How can NSIP support you in those efforts? How can this group work together in the future to support each other?

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1. AmeriCorps: Building a High Quality AmeriCorps Program - From Blueprint to Implementation - New Program Start-Up Guide

http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/americorps-building-high-quality-americorps-program-blueprint-implementation-new-program-start-guide

2. Building an Inclusive Development Community: A Manual on Including People with Disabilities in International Development Programs Organizational Self Assessment: Checklist for Inclusion pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACY408.pdf

3. Systems Thinking ~ a Comprehensive Approach to Disability Inclusion in National Service and Volunteerism - Building the Model NSIP’s 2009 Leadership Institute http://www.serviceandinclusion.org/ttt/node/302

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Maximizing Disability Inclusion in Your Program Ray Riordan Paula Sotnik Chad Gobert November 27 th, 2012