Evidence-Based Policy

Other Sources of Policy Information

Quality Mall - Provides descriptions of 2,500 products related to person-centered practices and innovations organized into 22 stores (e.g., Employment, Self-Advocacy) and 72 departments (e.g., Self-Employment/Business Ownership, Self-Advocacy Skills/Personal Advocacy).

Residential Information Systems Project - Provides an annual of state-by-state and national statistics on residential and Medicaid financed services for persons with developmental disabilities with a “Build a Report” feature that allows users to tailor their own comparisons among individual states and/or with the US.

StateData.info - Provides recent statistics on persons with developmental disabilities receiving employment and other day supports from state developmental disabilities, Vocational Rehabilitation and other agencies with a “State Comparisons” feature that allows a state to be compared with other states or the US.

State of the States - Provides a biannual summary of state-by-state and national expenditures for persons with developmental disabilities as well as the services for which the expenditures were made with “State Profiles” that summarize individual state trends in 8 areas.

The Evidence-Based Policy Initiative is a partnership between the National Association of State Director of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) and the Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD)

For more information, please contact: Charles Moseley: Phone-703.683-4202, E-mail: cmoseley@nasddds.org

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