The Perspective of Administrators of Intellectual Disability Organizations on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hughes, M. Courtney; Kim, Jinsook

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“…The production and refinement of the logic model reflects that a trauma informed care framework is viewed as an idealised position to be attained over time and that organisations are not ready to fully implement what is required. This challenge is further compounded by pressures to service delivery due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (Hughes et al, 2023). However, the logic model sets achievable targets for organisations for the short, medium to long-term.…”

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The development of a trauma informed care framework for residential services for adults with an intellectual disability: Implications for policy and practice

McNally

Taggart

Shevlin

2023

Policy Practice Intel Disabi

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Trauma informed care has become an evidenced based approach for inpatient and residential services for people in the general population who are likely to have been impacted by trauma. Given the increased vulnerability to psychological trauma for adults with an intellectual disability, it should follow that residential services for adults with an intellectual disability would also benefit from a trauma informed care approach. Two focus groups and individual interviews with seven adults with an intellectual disability and six workshops with seven service providers were conducted to co‐produce a trauma informed care framework for residential services that was evidence‐based and guided by established models (MRC, Developing and evaluating complex interventions, London: MRC & NIHR, 2019; Wight et al., Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 70, 520–525, 2016). The framework was developed into four chapters: ‘Setting the context’; ‘Organisational change’; ‘Workforce development’; and ‘Trauma focussed services’. A logic model outlining the mechanisms of change was refined over the course of the co‐production workshops. This is the first study to develop and co‐produce a trauma informed care framework for residential and supported living accommodation for adults with an intellectual disability. The framework has implications for local policy and practice in its current cultural context. Future development is required to operationalise and test the framework and to explore its adaptability to international contexts.

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The development of a trauma informed care framework for residential services for adults with an intellectual disability: Implications for policy and practice

McNally

Taggart

Shevlin

2023

Policy Practice Intel Disabi

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Left behind in the “Return to Normal”: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities' outcomes and supports 4 years into COVID‐19

Friedman

2024

Diversity & Inclusion Research

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has impacted people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) immensely. While the pandemic and life during it has changed over time, by the end of 2023, the most prominent narrative was a “return to normal.” Yet, there is less research about people with IDD's quality of life and services and supports beyond the initial waves of the pandemic. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on people with IDD's quality of life outcomes and supports 4 years into the pandemic. Using a repeated cross‐sectional design and linear and binary logistic regression models, we analyzed secondary Personal Outcome Measures® data from 4549 people with IDD from 2018 to 2023 in the United States (n = 4391; 32 states), Canada (n = 142), Ireland (n = 12), New Zealand (n = 3), and Australia (n = 1). We found people with IDD's quality of life outcomes and supports have yet to return to prepandemic levels. In fact, not only was almost every area of quality of life negatively impacted, many people with IDD who were interviewed in 2022 and 2023 had worse outcomes and supports than those interviewed earlier in the pandemic. Instead of clinging to the idea that life or the service system for people with IDD has “returned to normal,” we must recognize that normal was never a good enough destination to return to for people with IDD in the first place. Instead, we must commit to a new normal that is inclusive, accessible, and equitable.

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Caregiver Experiences with Teleservices for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Needs During the Onset of COVID-19

Kramer,

Beasley,

Caoili

et al. 2023

Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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The Perspective of Administrators of Intellectual Disability Organizations on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 3 publications

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The development of a trauma informed care framework for residential services for adults with an intellectual disability: Implications for policy and practice

The development of a trauma informed care framework for residential services for adults with an intellectual disability: Implications for policy and practice

Left behind in the “Return to Normal”: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities' outcomes and supports 4 years into COVID‐19

Caregiver Experiences with Teleservices for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Needs During the Onset of COVID-19

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