{"id":767,"date":"2006-01-10T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:06:43","slug":"best-practices-provider-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices &#8211; Provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Submission date: <\/strong>1\/10\/06<br \/>\n<strong>Submitted by:<\/strong> Christine Stevenson<br \/>\n<strong>Provider name:<\/strong>\u00a0The Center for Independence<br \/>\n<strong>APD Area:<\/strong> 23<\/p>\n<div class=\"CollapsiblePanelContent\">\n<p><strong>Practice<\/strong><br \/>\nPeople receiving services from this organization personally hand out paychecks to staff. The organization initiated the idea after attending a training by CQL (The Council on Quality and Leadership).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a group home manager with this organization took the lead from one of the residents and renamed \u201cHouse Rules\u201d as \u201cHouse Agreements\u201d. When evolving from management developed house rules to \u201crules\u201d developed by the residents themselves, the manager heard one resident say, \u201cI agree\u201d after a rule was suggested by a resident. She listened, and she agreed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Benefits? <\/strong>All<strong><br \/>\nHow? <\/strong>Regarding the paychecks, the staff benefits from the reminder that although they are hired by the organization, they work for the people. The people receiving services benefit from the empowerment derived from the action. The organization as a whole benefits from an action that is symbolically very powerful, while not consuming any extra resources. Regarding the \u201cHouse Agreements\u201d, the resident benefited when his remark was heard and valued. All residents benefited by no longer being subjected to \u201crules\u201d in their own home. They learned about compromise, consensus and self-governing. Other staff benefit from the realization that they too can seize upon opportunities to innovate and contribute<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submission date: 1\/10\/06 Submitted by: Christine Stevenson Provider name:\u00a0The Center for Independence APD Area: 23 Practice People receiving services from this organization personally hand out paychecks to staff. The organization initiated the idea after attending a training by CQL (The Council on Quality and Leadership). Additionally, a group home manager with this organization took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices-provider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florida.qlarant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}