Arc Oneida-Lewis

Social justice and social services have always played a vital role in my life. From leading canned food and toy drives in middle school to volunteering in school settings and soup kitchens, I am dedicated in assisting others to meet their goals and removing obstacles that may present as a disability or create discrimination. Through the experiences of engaging with individuals from different populations, I have realized the importance of working on a macro-level of social services. An individual’s presenting problem often develops from a systemic issue. From a social work perspective, disabilities are a result from society’s understanding of a person’s impairment or level of functioning. Adults with developmental delays have atypical experiences due to their interaction or lack thereof with their environment. Institutionalized discrimination or negative myths can prevent not only the person or consumer from achieving their goals, but large groups that are similarly labeled may face the same issue.

Several aspects of the organization, including the quality and price of its services, are pre-existing strengths the organization can leverage to expand its donor base. The center provides consumer-controlled services, meaning that its programs are custom-tailored to fit the needs of its consumers. Services are available to people with physical, mental, sensory or cognitive disabilities. If the center only helped individuals with one type of disability, the target audience would be narrow, but because the center helps individuals on a cross-disability basis, a wider range of donors can be targeted.

Teresia saw a need and desire to dedicate her life to help. The house she rented began as a humble refuge for children with extreme mental and physical disabilities, but now currently hosts over 30 children and even a few young adults from all over the country. The Center is registered as a Community-Based Organization and has been functional for over six years. The main objective is to enhance the welfare of the physically and mentally impaired through empowerment, treatment, rehabilitation and more. Teresia hopes to see her organization blossom into a lead rehabilitative center in order to better ensure the quality of life of those in need.

The Arc serves as a resource for self-advocates and family members for a better life and to the community to promote positive attitudes to disabilities.

The above table illustrates two non-profit organizations. These organizations represent how human service agencies work for the betterment of individuals, families, and communities. In addition, the table depicts similarities in how each organization, goal, mission, purpose, and services operate to benefit individuals with developmental, cognitive, and/or behavioral disorders. Both organizations, Ben’s Place and Child Guidance Center operates under the mandate to educate, advocate, protect, and provide quality services an effort create positive social interaction and independency for their clients. Each organization rely on the contingency theory. Meaning, each organization must rely other components and supporters that can generate a strong quantity of longevity or improbability in the organizational task

The leadership, management or mentoring roles found at Camphill Village include, the volunteers that live and work with the residents that are developmentally disabled. The volunteers are mentoring these adults that in the real world would not be given a chance because of their disabilities. At Camphill Village there are leaders that are considered to be employee-oriented leaders, meaning that they emphasize interpersonal relations by taking an interest in the employees’ needs and accepting individual differences among them (Robbin & Judge, 2015). This is shown with many of

They should not be hampered by their physical disabilities, mental health conditions or learning disabilities. Services extended to them must be executed with patience, care and integrity to build up and not tear down their self esteem.

As someone with an interest in volunteering for this cause as well as constantly preparing myself for staring and harassment every time I step out of my wheelchair, what I most desire to accomplish as a member of the Council is to raise acceptance of children with physical or mental handicaps, invisible or visible. It is from this that I would like to gain a better knowledge in civics in order to better advocate for this

I had the amazing opportunity to work with The Arc Idaho for my Service Learning Project. The mission of The Arc Idaho is as follows, “The Arc is committed to helping all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, in partnership with their families, to achieve the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work and play.” The major stakeholders of The Arc Idaho include the staff and leadership members, the board of directors, volunteers, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, individuals who make donations to The Arc Idaho, and less specifically the Treasure Valley. These individuals are considered stakeholders of The Arc Idaho because they are individuals or groups who can affect or are affected by The Arc.

John Doe is a 28 year old Caucasian male. Mr. Doe carries a primary diagnosis of moderate intellectual impairment, along with the secondary diagnoses of autism and mild schizoaffective disorder. He was receiving residential services through Parsons State Hospital and Training Center until 2013, when his guardian expressed concern that the rights of Mr. Doe were being unreasonably restricted. To ease his concern about the rigorous restriction of Mr. Doe’s rights, the guardian began to do some research on less restrictive placements that would offer Mr. Doe community inclusion. After some research, Doe’s guardian discovered Adele Services; an agency that offers community based living, a Special Olympics team, and leisurely

For our groups agency description paper we decided to interview “pathways”. This is an agency contracted through opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities (OOD) and partnered with Goodwill industries and paint valley ADAMH board. The home office is located at 14 south paint street in Chillicothe Ohio. This organization can be contacted by email at www.ood.gov or http://gwisco.org and also by phone at 740. 702. 4000. The pathways organization was created in 2010. Pathways is an eligibility based program and serves those that have physical or mental impairment which constitutes or results in the substantial impediment to

During my previous career, I dedicated 10 years to serving the needs of individuals with disabilities both for profit and not for profit. I secured and maintained contracts with the state of Texas to provide vocational and technology services to individuals with disabilities, including designing, opening, and managing one of the top computer training facilities in the state of Texas. My moral duties did not end there. I advocated (and succeeded) for change in the public transportation system in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as voluntarily served on the advisory board for the Texas Commission for the Blind.

It is relevant to note that QOL’s relation to people with developmental disabilities is a fairly new concept, thus there is still considerable debate on the topic (Schalock, 2004). However, the facets Schalock explores help us to recognize the things that need to be done in the field of advocacy for these individuals. The article poses encouragement for this era which includes necessary changes in order to improve the QOL for individuals with disabilities. It is crucial that we develop public procedure for people with disabilities that is based on things that add purpose to their lives, and assess their effectiveness. We also need to enforce individualized practices that help integrate these individuals into their communities. As members of society, we need to actively include these people in our communities (Schalock, 2004). The compelling concept of QOL is one that can be applied to all people, and it is important never to diminish a person’s quality of life based on physical and/or psychological

The data collected regarding the barriers in communication and negative staff work experience resulting in inadequate client care was derived from staff and clients ' reactions and testimony. Following the appointment of the new CEO and the organization 's environmental transition from a client and family focused agency to a financially oriented business, several senior management personnel, as well as some of the direct staff have resigned from their positions only to take the same or similar position at a competing agency. Those that remain have voiced their dissatisfaction about the reduction of their benefits, a lack of access to knowledge about the organization 's future, and the lack of equality in treatment in comparison to the clients. The most frequent complaint among staff was the unwillingness of the CEO and executive team to inform the agency of their vision for the organization and believe that the CEO and executives are withholding that information because it will not be well received by the agency.

There are many different methods that were identified within the video and chapter to determine the plan that is needed by the OD consultants to implement change. Some of these were interview with clients, questionnaires, observation and unobtrusive measures. All of the methods does not bring positive results to the organization.