It's not just another job . . . Listening to the voices of the people who provide residential support to individuals who moved from River's Crossing

2009

This report is a four-year follow-up study of 37 residents who once lived at River's Crossing (a short-term diagnostic program for young people with sever disabilities that had become a 24hr/7 day-a-week institution in 1980.) When River's Crossing closed its doors in 1996, IHDD began an effort to document how the lives of the children and young adults who had lived in that institution changed as they re-entered their communities. Much has been written about the national crisis in the direct care profession. Labor shortages, low wages, high turnover, and lack of adequate training threaten to put at risk the hard-won rights of people with substantial disabilities to live quality lives in the community. This report provides an in-depth examination of these issues as they affect the individuals who are employed to provide support to the focus people who moved from River's Crossing to the Community. (This report follows the one-year follow-up report entitled: Building New Lives in the Community and the two-year follow-up entitled: River's Crossing - Transition from Institution to the Community.)

Reports and monographs

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

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