Facilitators and Barriers in the Community Placement Process for Developmentally Disabled Individuals Facing Deinstitutionalization

The process of placement of developmentally disabled individuals from Central Wisconsin Center (CWC), a Wisconsin state institution, into community residential alternatives over a recent three and one-half year period (December 1, 1977, to May 21, 1981) was examined. The purposes of the study were to determine: (1) the patterns in the placement process for the released individuals, if any; (2) the relationship between socioeconomic and political characteristics of individual Wisconsin counties and their use of local resources for developmentally disabled individuals; (3) the critical variables that facilitated and hindered release from the institution; (4) the critical variables that determined whether a released person was placed into a nursing, group, or foster home; (5) the way the placement process system was perceived as working by the "line worker," i.e., institution and county placement staff who had direct responsibility for cases.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Novak, Angela Ruth

• Education, Special

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8309992

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68855