The Need for Community Participation and Oversight in the Special Needs Service Delivery System
Abstract
As in the era institutionalization, the current service system providing community-based supports for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) has become increasingly self-serving and financially top heavy. Currently, the bulk of the funding despite the current needs-based approach to services, ends up supporting and perpetuating the service delivery system. The support for individuals at a direct needs level appears to have been minimized with the growth of the provider structure. The corporate culture associated with the needs-based community support structure appears to have maintained the control and choices originally meant to go to the individuals and their families. In addition, the services that are provided are unequally distributed based on eligibility standards, level of needs, yearly legislative budgets, and government priority lists.
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