Personal Assistance

A listing of content on the site related to PAS.

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"Hablando sobre abuso y discapacidad"

Un video de 3 minutos para personas discapacitadas sobre cómo reconocer y responder al abuso, maneras de ayudar, y recursos. En español. Este video tiene subtítulos, y la transcripción está disponible.

Comic Book Scenes: Personal Assistance

These scenes show difficult situations in the lives of people with disabilities when interacting with people who help them, including spouses, family members, paid assistants, service providers. Some of these scenes show disabled people being mistreated, while others show the disabled people taking action to confront or correct the mistreatment.

Análisis del examen sobre asistencia personal

Un análisis del examen interactivo sobre asistencia personal, incluyendo enlaces para más información.

The Trouble Maker

A woman’s fear of being labeled a “trouble-maker” for reporting an incompetent attendant

The Intrusive Mother

A comic strip showing how family members can try to control the lives of people with disabilities.

Resistencia a despedir

Una tira cómica mostrando la resistencia de un hombre discapacitado a despedir a un asistente abusivo.

El World Institute on Disability (WID) lanza el Programa de estudios sobre la prevención del abuso y el empoderamiento en la Internet

El World Institute on Disability (WID) tiene el gusto de lanzar nuestros nuevos recursos para el Programa de estudios sobre la prevención del abuso y el empoderamiento (CAPE). La nueva y ampliada página de CAPE (http://www.wid.org/cape) ofrece una introducción y una muestra de los textos, herramientas, y actividades de nuestro programa de estudios para la prevención del abuso.

Personal Assistance Services: A New Millennium

For a person with a disability, a personal assistant can make the difference between living in the community or being institutionalized. That's why the World Institute on Disability's (WID) Personal Assistance Services (PAS) Division is engaged in a comprehensive project to determine how PAS can best promote the independent living, economic self-sufficiency, and full integration of people with disabilities into society. This summer, WID teamed up with four other organizations committed to promoting the full inclusion of people into society. Together they brought together 120 key leaders engaged in PAS to accomplish the following...

Personal Assistance Services Management, Annotated Resource List

This concise, annotated list offers resources on how people with disabilities can find, hire and manage their personal assistance services (PAS).

Liability Issues Affecting Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services: Report and Recommendations

This manual offers an understandable explanation of liability law as it relates to Personal Assistance Services and suggests practical strategies for meeting legal requirements without sacrificing the needs of people with disabilities. Contents include employment tax, benefits, personal injury (tort law and risk apportionment), and licensure/ certification (nurse practice acts).

Personal Assistance Services (PAS): People with Disabilities Forging Public Policy (Video)

This video, filmed during an international symposium on PAS held in Oakland, CA in the fall of 1991, offers an excellent introduction to PAS. It addresses PAS as an Independent Living and Civil Rights issue. Perspectives from a diverse array of disability advocates from both the U.S. and Europe are represented.

The Cost of Program Models Providing Personal Assistance Services (PAS) for Independent Living

This report analyzes six program models in terms of cost and degree of support for Independent Living using data from WlD's 1989 program survey of all publicly-funded PAS programs in the United States. Both Independent provider and agency models are examined and compared.

Personal Perspectives on Personal Assistance Services

This collection of personal essays explores a wide range of perspectives on personal assistance services. Family issues and PAS concerns for people with different disabilities, of different ages, and as members of minority groups are addressed.

Resolution on Personal Assistance Services

This Resolution was passed by the participants of the International Personal Assistance Services Symposium, sponsored by WID in 1991, and outlines the crucial elements of a national PAS policy.

Attending to America: Personal Assistance for Independent Living: A Report of the National Survey of Attendant Services Programs in the United States

This unique 1987 report explores the then current publicly provided personal assistance system in the U.S. It contains policy recommendations and action steps, a definition of terms, a directory of attendant service programs in the U.S. and a bibliography.

Executive Summary of Attending to America

This summary succinctly presents the findings, analyses and recommendations of WID's research project (below) on attendant services.

PAS Fundamentals

PAS Fundamentals offers a comprehensive overview of PAS. This manual allows the reader to explore different PAS models, examine the diversity of PAS delivery and funding, learn about national PAS legislation and supreme court decisions and their impact at the state level.

PAS Systems Change: A Workbook for Improving PAS in Your State

This manual will allow the reader to assess the current PAS system in their state and envision an ideal system, develop strategies to redesign their current system, create a viable plan of action to implement a comprehensive statewide PAS program.

Policy Issues Affecting the Medicaid Personal Care Services Optional Benefit: Full Report

POLICY ISSUES AFFECTING THE MEDICAID PERSONAL CARE SERVICES OPTIONAL BENEFIT: FULL REPORT

Personal Assistance Services in Europe and North America: Report of an International Symposium

This report is a collection of essays by PAS users from North America and Western Europe, describing service models in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Germany, with an eye toward system reform. It provides an overview of common issues faced by consumers and advocates as they strive to develop user responsive policies.

Personal Assistant Programs in Germany, Sweden and the USA: Differences and Similarities

This thesis, funded by "Stiftung zur Förderung körper-behinderter Hochbegabter" of Lichtenstein and the IDEAS for a New Millennium Project, describes and compares personal assistance services in three different countries.

Directory of Publicly Funded PAS Programs

The data in this page is derived from WID's 1999 Survey of Publicly Funded PAS programs. To gather this data we mailed out a survey and held telephone interviews with respondents at all the PAS programs we could locate. Although our response rate was quite good, some programs did refuse to participate, and there are likely to be others that we did not identify as part of the sample, so even though this list represents our best effort, it may not be an exhaustive list of all PAS programs in the country.

American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)

 

Barrier Breakers

Detailed information on the SSI Plan for Achieving Self-Support program (PASS). Also includes action-alerts, links and a chat room focused on Social Security issues.

Resistance to Firing

This comic strip shows how many disabled people resist firing employees, even though those employees are not doing a good job.

Tiras cómicas: asistencia personal

Estas tiras muestran situaciones difíciles en las vidas de personas con discapacidades cuando interactúan con personas quienes les ayudan, incluyendo esposos, familiares, asistentes pagados, y proveedores de servicios. Algunas de las escenas muestran personas discapacitadas siendo maltratadas, mientras otras muestran la gente discapacitada haciendo los pasos necesarios para enfrentar o corregir al maltrato.

La madre que se mete

Una tira cómica sobre un familiar que se mete en las instrucciones que un hombre discapacitado da a su asistente.

La alborotadora

Una tira cómica mostrando el miedo de una mujer de ser denominada “problemática” por informar sobre un asistente incompetente.

EQUITY Program of the Month

Tapping Into Disabled Youth’s Power: ADAPT- Jason Glozier, ADAPT Youth Organizer, challenges disabled youth to put action where their mouth is and get organized to solve problems, instead of whining about the "unfairness" of the world .

Curriculum on Abuse Prevention and Empowerment (CAPE)

Sadly, people with disabilities get abused, sometimes at the hands of people who help or care for them. Care providers and personal assistants, including family members and service providers (paid or unpaid) can be abusive. When abuse occurs, a disabled person’s personal health, safety and emotional well-being may be at risk, along with their ability to engage in daily life activities. This page has links to comic book scenes, Sticks&Stones stories and Talking About Abuse, etc movies.

"Enfrentando el abuso hacia adultos con discapacidades: Un mensaje para proveedores de servicios y familiares"

Un video de 3 minutos para proveedores de servicios y familiares sobre cómo reconocer y responder al abuso, maneras de ayudar, y recursos. En español. Este video tiene subtítulos, y la transcripción está disponible.

Programa de estudios sobre la prevención del abuso y el empoderamiento (CAPE)

Desgraciadamente, la gente con discapacidades es maltratada, a veces por las mismas personas que les ayudan o les cuidan. Proveedores de servicios y asistentes personales, incluyendo familiares y cuidadores (pagados o no pagados) pueden ser abusivos. Cuando el abuso ocurre, la salud, seguridad, y bienestar emocional de una personal discapacitada pueden estar en peligro, tal como su capacidad de participar en las actividades de la vida cotidiana. Esta página incluye enlaces a tiras cómicas, historias de abuso, y videos.

Excerpts from our forthcoming book, "Sticks and Stones: Disabled People’s Stories of Abuse, Defiance and Resilience"