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Laredo committee considers adapting state disability needs survey into local assessment
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Summary
Committee members discussed using a University of Delaware needs-assessment as a model for a local survey to identify priorities for people with disabilities, with plans to partner with a university department and review the material before the next meeting.
Speaker 1 said the committee had received a portion of a state-level study and proposed using it as a model for a local needs assessment. "This is actually like a 65 page document," Speaker 1 said, adding copies were emailed to members. The committee discussed using parts of the University of Delaware survey and inviting a local university department to analyze results as a semester project.
The proposal is aimed at producing local data to inform five-year priorities. Speaker 2 summarized the priority areas identified in the state survey as "mental health, housing accessibility and affordability, employment and job training, community integration and accessibility, and health care accessibility and inclusivity." Committee members agreed those areas could guide a locally adapted instrument.
Speakers compared different state models for survey design: Speaker 4 noted Delaware’s response rate was smaller relative to population and said the committee had modeled its autism-related survey on a Pennsylvania needs assessment. Members asked to review the distributed material in detail and bring ideas to the next meeting so the group can select which questions to adapt locally.
No formal votes or contracts were recorded during this discussion. The committee's next procedural step, as Speaker 3 said, is to "go over this a little bit better" at the next meeting and to identify potential university partners to assist with survey administration and analysis.
