Thriving Within the Turbulence

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-61
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor ◽  
Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa ◽  
Anthony Arundel
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Resource Dependence Theory ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Edge Of Chaos ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Social Innovations

This chapter embraces complexity theory as a basis for theorizing social innovation in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) operating in the Australian disability sector, which is currently grappling with the implementation of a disruptive policy reform leading to a paradigm shift in the funding of disability support services, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). To cope and thrive within a new NDIS-fueled marketplace, disability NPOs need to pursue socially innovative agendas. Through a review of cross-disciplinary literatures on social innovation and the use of a complexity theorizing approach that integrates multiple theories (i.e. institutional theory, resource dependence theory, and user innovation theory), this chapter proposes a holistic complexity-based framework that can potentially: explain how disability NPOs develop social innovations operating at the edge of chaos, help improve the ability of research to tackle societal and managerial problems, and hence strengthen management scholarship.

scholarly journals Maawandoonan: early childhood disability support services in Constance Lake First Nation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Ineese-Nash
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Service System ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Childhood Disability ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Disability Theory ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
The Impact

This paper details an institutional ethnography conducted in Constance Lake First Nation, a rural Oji-Cree community in northern Ontario, Canada. The study is a part of a larger project called the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System Project, which is partnered with several municipalities and service organizations in four communities across Ontario. The current project examined six family narratives of accessing disability support services for young children. The project seeks to understand how the service system functions from the perspective of families, and the impact of institutional interactions on families within the service system. Employing critical disability theory and Indigenous perspectives of child development, the study seeks to develop a culturally-based conceptualization of disability support for Indigenous children with disabilities or gifts.

Postsecondary Students With Disabilities: Predictors of Adaptation to College

2020 ◽  
pp. 152102512094101
Author(s):  
Samantha J. Herrick ◽  
Weili Lu ◽  
Deanna Bullock
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Support Services ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Education Support ◽  
Adaptation To College ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between acceptance of disability, perceived stigma of students on a college campus and adaptation to college for students with disabilities. One hundred forty-five surveys were collected from student participants via the disability support services offices at sixteen colleges or universities in the northeast and mid-west United States. The results of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed two statistically significant relationships, students with a higher level of acceptance of disability were more adapted to college, and higher GPA was associated with less adaptation to college. The exploratory test of mediation revealed that the relationship between acceptance of disability and adaptation to college was significantly mediated by perception of stigma on a college campus. The implications for higher education support services and recommendations for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals How Social Work Can Contribute in the Shift to Personalised, Recovery-Oriented Psycho-Social Disability Support Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. i98-i116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Brophy ◽  
Annie Bruxner ◽  
Erin Wilson ◽  
Nadine Cocks ◽  
Michael Stylianou
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Social Disability ◽  
Disability Support

Building Theories-in-Practice on Social Innovation in Disability Nonprofit Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 212-250
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor ◽  
Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
System Level ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Social Innovations

This chapter discusses the key theoretical and empirical steps undertaken throughout the authors' previous-but-related mixed methods studies on social innovation in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Australian disability sector with the aim of using the key findings of these studies to develop ‘theories-in-practice' in disability NPOs. In this chapter, the authors summarize the associated theory-building processes deployed to explain how disability NPOs develop and implement social innovations and the societal ‘system-level' impacts of such innovations. These theory-building processes involve two broad phases, and the culmination of these phases (grounded in the abductive logics of inquiry, complexity theorizing, and set-theoretic methods) leads to the development of several ‘theories-to-practice' that not only convey the interactivity of contextual causal mechanisms leading to social innovation by NPOs, but also outline change-oriented solutions for managers who are working to address complex social challenges.

Disability Support Services in Higher Education: An Extension of the Rehabilitation Process

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie Carroll ◽  
Claudia E. Johnson Bown
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Academic Support Services ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Comprehensive Services

In recent years, the number of students in higher education who are requesting services, from university offices of Disability Support Services (DSS) has increased dramatically, While surveys suggest that the majority of DSS offices are providing academic support services to their students with disabilities, these services, while necessary, are not sufficient to address the needs of these students in a holistic fashion. This article will discuss ways in which the philosophy of rehabilitation counseling can be utilized to assist the DSS office in providing more comprehensive services, with the goal of increasing the students' functioning to the highest level possible in all areas of their lives. Through adherence to this philosophy, the DSS office can become an effective extension of the rehabilitation process to students with disabilities.

The Untold Stories: Men Living With Multiple Sclerosis

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Raylene Fastier
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Disability Support

This article presents findings from a Masters of Health Science dissertation about men with multiple sclerosis (MS). The study used a constructivist paradigm that acknowledged the diverse ways men with MS viewed the part illness played in their lives and that allowed for multiple interpretations of specific issues arising for men. The article describes how the men integrated their illness into their lives. Those findings that relate to the identified themes that helped or hindered the men in living with chronicity are discussed. Their significance is evaluated in terms of how gendered meaning is gained in the experience of living with chronic illness. It is important for the men living with MS to give voice to their illness experiences, and for those who provide health and disability support services to understand how gendered meaning is gained and mastery achieved. Few illness models explain gender differences, and few are illness specific.

scholarly journals Smart Partnership in Contracting: Thriving in a Period of Intense Policy Uncertainty

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Saidel
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Resource Dependence Theory ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Contract Managers

AbstractThe smart partnership framework introduced in this article is derived from extensive, on-site interviews with nonprofit and public contract managers conducted in several grounded research projects between 2011 and 2015 and from the research literature on contracting. The framework demonstrates the continuing explanatory power of resource dependence theory that disentangles the formidable influence of the public policy environment on organizational action. It is intended to provide a coherent guide for practice by enabling nonprofit managers in the social services field to navigate the current intense environmental uncertainty in which cross-sector contracting relationships between government agencies and nonprofit organizations are embedded. By providing an accessible way to understand an extraordinarily complex set of inter-organizational dynamics, the model offers a research-based definition and clear visualization of what it means to be a smart partner. It highlights the necessity of understanding the norms, expectations, structures, processes, and culture within which sector counterpart contract managers operate. Fundamental to the range of managerial strategies that the framework calls for is the need explicitly to attend to relationship building, to patterns of variation in relationships over time, and to their probable consequences. The integrative model consists of three inter-related organizational competencies and a number of secondary competencies. Competency 1: understand the dynamic nature of contracting relationships; secondary competencies: recognize predictable variations in relationships; comprehend the importance of multiple institutional logics. Competency 2: develop and sustain capacity for strategic adaptation; secondary competencies: build external and internal learning capacity; discern power shifts in inter-organizational relationships; maintain capability for strategic repositioning. Competency 3: participate proactively in shaping policy change; secondary competencies: attend to relationship development and nurturance; build trust and credibility.

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