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Employment First Massachusetts

Employment First Massachusetts

Promoting Inclusive Employment in Massachusetts

Community-Based Day Supports

Community-based day supports enhance opportunities for individuals with disabilities to fully engage in social and community life activities. These supports focus building skills that lead to community-based integration and employment for individuals with disabilities.

Resources

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Important "To" vs Important "For"

This resource explains a component of person-centered thinking, the important difference between what is important TO someone, versus, what is important FOR someone.

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Community Life Engagement Toolkit

Are you looking to improve meaningful community life engagement for the people you support? Read about how the Community Life Engagement Toolkit can help service providers develop and improve high-quality supports for community life engagement (CLE).

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Community Life Engagement Service Provider Promising Practices

The CLE Service Provider Promising Practices series highlights real-world examples of service providers making CLE happen! These promising practices detail how providers were able to adjust their existing day services and supports to align with the four guideposts of CLE.

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Charting the LifeCourse

Holistic framework that can be used to support person-centered planning, organization of ideas, developing vision and goals, as well as problem-solving and navigating life's transitions.

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Ensuring Excellence in Community-Based Day Supports: A guide for service providers and staff

Ensuring Excellence in Community-Based Day Supports: A guide for service providers and staff
This publication is a guide for service providers in developing and operating CBDS services in a way that will ensure a consistent high quality of services that fully supports and embraces the DDS vision of CBDS, resulting in a richer and fuller life that maximizes community integration and employment for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Engage Brief: What is Community Life Engagement

Engage Brief: What is Community Life Engagement
Community life engagement (CLE) refers to all the ways people access and engage in their communities. For CBDS providers, the -4- guideposts of CLE offer a framework for increasing community life engagement outcomes.