Since 2007 The New York Alliance for Inclusion & Innovation (NYSACRA until 2018) has organized Learning Institutes to support organizations in generating innovations in individualized supports.
Learning Institutes have taken a variety of forms but all focus on applying knowledge of organizational development and social innovation to individualize supports for inclusion. Initial concentration on supports for people with developmental disabilities now includes organizations that support elders and others who receive support funded by US Federal Medicaid.
Until the pandemic Learning Institutes were a series of face-to-face meetings. Lately they have moved on-line and include both introductory sessions and opportunities to develop a deeper understanding.
Hanns Meissner and Beth Mount have co-designed and facilitated the whole series, joined along the way by Chris Liuzzo, John O’Brien and Carol Napierski.
Fieldbooks: The Process
Guide for the 2023, on-line introductory course.
Guide for one of the 2023 follow up sessions
Guide for in-person sessions before 2020
Cultivating Capacity: a Fieldbook for Strengthening Person-Centered Practices
The New York Learning Institutes
Sources
Frameworks
Making Sense of Individualized Supports
Beth Mount & John O’Brien. What More Is Possible.
The Trampoline Effect – Redesigning our Social Safety Nets
Gord Tulloch & Sarah Schulman
John O’Brien. Make A Difference: Support Valued Experiences
Hanns Meissner. The Evolving System. Part I & II (Video).
The Evolving System – Part 1
Hanns Meissner. The Evolving System. Part I & II (Video).
The Evolving System – Part II
Theory of Change
Ideas Generated by Learning Institutes
Chris Liuzzo – Design Principles for Individualized Supports
Beth Mount: Longing
John O’Brien – Graphic Listening
John O’Brien – What Difference Will the HSBS Community Rule Make?
Ideas
Hanns Meissner: The Evolving System. Parts I & II
The Evolving System – Part 1
Hanns Meissner: The Evolving System. Parts I & II
The Evolving System – Part II
Practices
Beth Mount. 3D Mapping
Learning Histories
Beth Mount, John O’Brien, and Chris Liuzzo facilitated four group sessions on Zoom, conducted individual dialogue interviews with each organization, and supported planning and production of some social innovation stories. John O’Brien compiled this record.
John O’Brien. NYSACRA Learning Institute on Innovation in Individualized Supports II: A Learning History.
https://e93n72yruom.exactdn.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NYSACRA-Institute-Learning-History-II.pdf
John O’Brien. NYSACRA Learning Institute on Innovation in Individualized Supports III:.
https://e93n72yruom.exactdn.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NYSACRA-Learning-Institute-Parent-Perspectives.pdf
