Document Type
Occasional Paper
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
SEEC (Seeking Equality, Empowerment, and Community) is a Maryland-based provider of employment, community living, and community development supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Like many providers of individualized supports, SEEC has had to find creative ways to individualize supports even though its funding structures do not support 1:1 staffing. One way they do this is by deliberately building both human capital (community living skills) and social capital (relationships in the community). As skills and relationships are built, paid supports can be faded, thus making more efficient use of resources in the longer term.
Recommended Citation
Sulewski, Jennifer and ThinkWork! at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston, "CLE Promising Practices: Using Human and Social Capital to Decrease Dependence on Paid Supports" (2017). All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications. 44.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/ici_pubs/44