Core Indicators Activities
Team Interview Video - In 2003, Core Indicators staff developed a video, "Team Up For Success", to highlight results of the team process for the consumer interview. The video showcases the benefits (some of which were unanticipated) of people who happen to have disabilities interviewing people with disabilities and their families.
Consumer Interview Video - In the spring of 2002, Core Indicators staff created an 11 minute video entitled, "Conducting the Consumer Interview: Are You Putting Your Best Foot Forward?". The tape has been used in interviewer training and has been distributed to other states participating in Core Indicators.
Team Interviews - The Core Indicators Project in Kentucky has received a contract through the Real Choices systems change grant to implement team interviewing, as recommended by the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for People with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Teams consists of one team member in the "professional" role and one team member who is a consumer self-advocate or family member of a person with a disability. We are very excited about the opportunity to enhance our interview process by making it more consumer and family-driven. Teams are expected to complete a minimum of 500 interviews over the course of the three year grant. For more information about Real Choices, go to: http://mhmr.chs.ky.gov/realchoices.asp
The team process through the Real Choices Grant has been expanded in the year 2004/2005 to include 450 persons with mental illness who receive at least one service from the Department of Mental Health. Two hundred team interviews will be collected.
General Population Comparison Study - Because we recognize the importance of looking at the rich data that we receive through interviews with consumers and their families, we look at the information in a variety of ways. We believe that it is crucial to get a view of typical Kentuckians because people with disabilities who receive services are important members of their communities. Therefore, a general population study was conducted which asks many of the same kinds of questions that are asked of consumers. It will provide the project with another way to compare our results.