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Home to the Community - Helping Disabled Adults Return to the Community in Maine

Published: Aug 27, 2003

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The Alpha One Center for Independent Living in Portland, Maine, created the Home to the Community project to help people with disabilities leave nursing homes and reestablish their lives in the community.

The project was part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) national program, Building Health Systems for People With Chronic Illnesses.

Key Results

As a result of services provided (chiefly skills instruction on finding accessible housing and transportation, using personal assistance services and acquiring assistive technology such as wheelchairs), 26 consumers moved out of nursing homes and returned to life in the community.
An additional 24 participants who remained in nursing homes received services.

Key Evaluation Findings
The evaluation showed that:

Participants who were able to return to their communities tended to be those who had less severe disabilities than most nursing home residents while in the nursing home.
Quality-of-life indicators improved for people who left nursing homes and that public expenditures decreased.

Funding
RWJF provided two grants totaling $706,615 for this project and for the University of Maine's Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Affairs to evaluate it.

After the Grant
Alpha One continues to provide transitional services to consumers who want to leave nursing homes, broaden its outreach and disseminate results and findings to the field.

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Listed below are 2 of the grants that supported this project, totaling $705,197.

Grant	Awarded to	Amount
Enabling people with disabilities to re-establish life in the community	Alpha One (South Portland, ME) ID#: 031306 Steven C. Tremblay 207-767-2189 http://www.alphaonenow.com	Approved award: $570,015 Actual award: $568,597 March 1997 to February 2001
Evaluation of a project to assist adults with disabilities to move from nursing homes to the community	University of Southern Maine (Gorham, ME) ID#: 031715 Paul J. Saucier 207-780-5176 pauls@usm.maine.edu http://www.usm.maine.edu	Actual award: $136,600 April 1997 to February 2001

RWJF may have supported this project with other grants that are not listed.

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