Center Priorities

1. Develop measures that can be applied to evaluate self-determination activities in terms of rehabilitation outcomes, quality of services, and availability of community resources.
2. Identify and assess self-determination direction theories, models, and activities, as well as the barriers to participation in self-determination activities for individuals with disabilities.
3. Develop and evaluate management tools to enable service providers to support self-determination.
4. Develop, conduct, and evaluate training on self-determination and consumer choice to improve understanding and support of self-determination.
5. Identify factors that prevent access and expanded use of technology to enhance self determination.
6. Identify or develop and evaluate self-determination models that integrate technology into activities and services that support self-determination and assess consumer satisfaction and benefits.
7. Identify and evaluate the extent of knowledge and experience that service providers (e.g., rehabilitation counselors, therapists, job coaches, psychiatrists and psychologists, and other service providers) have using technology to support self-determination.
8. Assess policies of service providers and payers in terms of their implications for fostering or impeding self-determination, and identify strategies for policy improvements.
9. Conduct in the third year of the grant, a state-of-the-science conference on self-determination for persons with a significant and persistent mental illness, and publish a comprehensive report in the fourth year of the grant.
10. Address in its research the specific needs of minority populations with long-term mental illness.

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