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THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS

CSD/CMS Self Determination Project Contacts List
  Center for Self-Determination, October 2007

The Meaning of Self-Determined Lives in Publicly Funded Systems of Long Term Care
  Thomas Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, August 2007

Editorial/ International Conference on Self-Determination
  by Tom Watkins

Assault On Ashley
 Thomas Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, April 2007

Individual Costs, System costs and Quality of Life
 Thomas Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, April 2007

Self-Determination Amendments of 2007
 Thomas Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, April 2007

A Self-Determination Legislative/Administative Agenda
 Thomas Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, April 2007

SELF-DETERMINATION

The System of the Future
 Thomas Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, 2003

Center for Self-Determination Policy Analysis of New Jersey's Self-Determination Effort
 Thomas Nerney with Kathy Harris, Esq, 2003

Personal Agents and Independent Brokers
 Ellen M. Cummings, The Center for Self-Determination, 2002

Organizing a Movement
 Dennis Harkins

Filthy Lucre, Creating Better Value in Long Term Supports
 Thomas Nerney

Systems Change: An Illusive Dream or Finally Within Reach?
 Ellen M Cummings

People First - The Consumers in Consumer Direction
 Thomas Nerney & Marisa A. Scala, 2001

The Poverty of Human Services
 Thomas Nerney, 2001

Tools of Self-Determination: Communicating Self-Determination
 Thomas Nerney, 2000

Affirmation of Community
 Thomas Nerney, Richard F. Crowley, with Bruce Kappel, 1995

March/April 2005 TASH Connections

The Declaration of Freedom, Center for Self-Determination July 4, 2000
 The system of the future will honor the civil and human rights that all Americans are entitled to by virtue of their citizenship

GUARDIANSHIP

Eliminating the Pervasiveness of Guardianship
 Dohn Hoyle, TASH Connections September-October, 2005

Guardianship and the Disability Rights Movement
 Diane Coleman and Tom Nerney, TASH Connections September-October, 2005

Guardianship is not Self-Determination
 Kathy Harris, TASH Connection September-October, 2005

The Trust as an Alternative to Guardianship
 Joel S. Welber, TASH Connections September-October, 2005

Guardianship Reform
 Kathleen Harris, 2001

Re-Thinking Guardianship Reform
 Don Hoyle and Kathleen Harris, 2001

Self-determination, Autonomy and Alternatives for Guardianship
 Stanley S. Herr, Professor of Law, 2001

Challenging Incompetence
 Thomas Nerney, 2000

MENTAL HEALTH

Fact Sheet #1, A Shift in Power
 Tom Nerney, 2006

Fact Sheet #2, From Values to Policy
 Tom Nerney, 2006

Fact Sheet #3, From Policy to Practice
 Tom Nerney, 2006

The Role of the Provider in Person-Centered Care Practice
 Nancy Fudge, National Foundation for Self Directed Care, Inc.

Rethinking Rehabilitation: Freedom
 Patricia E. Deegan PhD, June 2004

The Promise of Freedom for Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
 Thomas Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, 2004 For more information about Self-Determination for persons with psychiatric disabilities visit: http://www.psych.uic.edu/UICNRTC/sdconfpapers.htm

AGING

We Are Never too Old For Self-Determination: Integrating the Gifts of Elders, Families, Communities, and Human Services
 Dennis Harkins

Aging and Self-Determination
 Elias S. Cohen, JD - Immersion Learning About Self-Determination Las Vegas, NV April 3, 2003

The Right to Flourish, Self-Determination and People who are Elderly
 Eli Cohen & Thomas Nerney, 2001

EMPLOYMENT

Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel
 Testimony of Thomas Nerney, Director Center for Self-Determination, May 24, 2005

Self-Directed Support Corporations (Microboards)
 Jackie Golden, 2001

Beyond Dreams to Ambition, Creating Employment Outcomes
 Robert R. Morgan, 1999

QUALITY

Lost Lives: Why we Need a New Approach to Quality
 Tom Nerney, Center for Self-Determination, June 2004

A Father’s Point of View - I Know There is Quality When..
 Quincy Abbott, October 2004

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