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Making Self-Direction a Reality: Using Individual Budgets to Promote Choice, Control, and Equity
Self-direction is a fast-growing platform for the delivery of community-based services and supports to people who need long-term care, and many states are choosing to use individual budgeting to make it a reality. Basing budget amounts on assessed need can help ensure that people have equal access to services across a service population. To better understand the methods that states use to create individual budgets, the benefits and risks of these approaches, and their level … Read More
Date: 06/2019
Author(s): Jami Petner-Arrey, Yoshi Kardell, Colleen Kidney
Promoting Engagement on Healthcare Transparency Sites
The rising costs and complexities of healthcare insurance and services can make it challenging for people to understand issues and confidently make decisions about the coverage and care they want, need and can afford. Healthcare transparency websites can help address this, and HSRI provides some best practices for promoting consumer engagement with these tools. … Read More
Date: 06/2019
Author(s): HSRI Population Health Team
NAYA Home Repair Program Final Report
The Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) offers a Critical Home Repair, Weatherization, and Anti-Displacement Program that provides no-cost home repairs and energy efficiency upgrades to low-income homeowners in Portland, Oregon. To better understand the safety, health, and stability outcomes of the program, NAYA engaged the Human Services Research Insittute to conduct in-depth interviews and surveys with program participants. The findings are discussed in this report. … Read More
Date: 01/2019
Author(s): HSRI
North Dakota Behavioral Health Vision 2020: 2019 Strategic Goals
HSRI is supporting the North Dakota Behavioral Health Planning Council to engage in coordinated, data-driven system transformation activities based on the recommendations from the 2018 Behavioral Health System Study. This document outlines the 2019 strategic goals selected as part of that work. … Read More
Date: 01/2019
Author(s): HSRI
North Dakota Behavioral Health Vision 20/20: Survey Results
In December 2018, we surveyed North Dakotans to understand which strategic goals they saw as having the highest priority for the behavioral health system in the state. In all, 570 people from across North Dakota took the survey. This report presents the results. … Read More
Date: 01/2019
Author(s): HSRI