Virtual Community Life Engagement
This brief applies the Four Guideposts for Community Life Engagement to identifying virtual opportunities for interaction and engagement and supporting people with IDD to access such opportunities.
Community Life Engagement
Community Life Engagement refers to the activities that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities do during the hours when they aren't working. Examples include performing volunteer work, taking classes, and joining social groups and faith-based organizations. Learn more about how Community Life Engagement happens, and why it's important, in these resources.
Meeting the Holistic Vision of Employment and Community Life Engagement: State Administrator Perspectives on Achievements and Gaps
As states focus on expanding integrated employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and phase out sheltered work, they are finding a need to concurrently examine day services and supports that promote Community Life Engagement (CLE, see yellow box to the right for a detailed definition). These supports can be a wrap-around to ensure individuals’ engagement in the community is maintained and they continue to receive sufficient levels of support, despite fluctuations in job status and hours.
State Roles in Promoting Community Life Engagement: Themes from the State Employment Leadership Network's Working Group
The State Employment Leadership Network (SELN) is a membership-based network of state IDD agencies committed to making changes in their service systems to ensure access to competitive integrated employment for people with IDD (www.selnhub.org/home).
Community Life Engagement
Delivered in conjunction with Cross Plains Community Partners, this powerpoint presentation provides an overview of the four guideposts in Community Life Engagement, as well as implementation strategies from a provider perspective.
Conversion to Integrated Employment and Community Life Engagement
Delivered in conjunction with The Arc of the United States and Starfire (provider agency), this powerpoint presentation provides an overview of the four guideposts of Community Life Engagement and their relationship to characteristics of transformative providers in general.
Community Life Engagement
Delivered primarily to an audience of self-advocates, this powerpoint offers a user-friendly, plain language explanation of the four guideposts in Community Life Engagement.
Getting Out and About: How to Get the Most Out of What Your Community Has to Offer
There are so many ways to be part of your community! You can volunteer, take college classes, go to the gym, or spend time with friends. This workshop will teach four big tips you need to know to help you be more involved in your community.
TransCen's WorkLink Program
WorkLink is a program that enables individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to work while receiving wrap-around day services. Having access to both types of supports -- community employment and Community Life Engagement (CLE) -- is particularly important for individuals with significant IDD, who often work fewer hours and need additional support to lead active and meaningful lives. The program was started in 1996 by TransCen, Inc., and is based in San Francisco, California.
Guidepost 4: Ensure That Supports Are Outcome-Oriented and Regularly Monitored
We have created a series of four Engage Briefs to examine the guideposts in detail. This brief explores the need to create supports that oriented toward goals and outcomes, and to implement a plan for monitoring progress.
