Creating livable communities for people with disabilities / Alise Vanags, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vanags, Alise.

National Council on Disability (U.S.)

Series:

Disability and the disabled.

Disability and the disabled : issues, laws and programs series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Services for--United States.

People with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Creating Livable Communities is an outgrowth of the National Council on Disability's (NCD) interest and recent work in the topic of livable communities for people with disabilities. The main impetus for this interest is threefold: 1) the prospect of a growing population of people with disabilities as the baby boom generation ages, 2) the desire that people with disabilities--indeed, all people-have to live in their own homes and communities and maintain their self-determination, dignity, and independence for as long as possible, and 3) the pressures that these factors will exert on local communities that strive to become livable for people of all ages and abilities. This book thoroughly examines these challenges, as well as addresses promising practices. This book consists of public domain documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

Contents:

Introduction

Strategy one : agreement on changes in the collection and management of and access to, multiple agency information about programs and benefits in order to be consumer responsive

Strategy two : utilization of favorable tax treatment (e.g. tax credits) to stimulate change in individual and corporate behavior that encourages investment in livable community objectives

Strategy three : agreement on common performance measures across multiple federally funded programs

Strategy four : utilization of private sector match to competitively secure public funding and stimulate public-private sector partnerships

Strategy five : agreement on changes in infrastructure to consolidate administration of multiple programs and improve ease of access

Strategy six : utilization of waiver authority to promote state options to advance consumer choice and community participation

Recommendations for action.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61728-170-0

OCLC:

923661858