Fact Sheets

These facts sheets present information about our work for the Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living (MICL) project. For more information on each project, click here.

HCBS Waiver: Economic Utility and Related Health Outcomes
Overall, people with disabilities continue to have unacceptably high rates of disease. This project creates an assessment model that state Medicaid programs can use to monitor the cost effectiveness and health outcomes of individuals with disabilities who are on a Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver.

Enhancing Community Participation
This project measures a new personal assistant training program that affects community participation of people with disabilities.

CIL Services Effect on Community Participation
How do the services provided by centers for independent living (CILs) impact their consumers' participation in the community? This project assesses the effects of different center for independent living service examples. Data is being gathered through a survey of CILs.

Community Engagement Evaluation Project
This project uses a grassroots approach to make needed environmental changes that will increase access to health care for people with disabilities. The project is being carried out in Oregon, Kansas and Missouri.

Measurement Systems of Person x Environment Interactions
How do person and environment factors function as either as barriers or facilitators to community participation of people with disabilities? This project further develops and refine a system of measurement for those factors. Participants are still being recruited to take a survey that will provide information for this measure.