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National Core Indicators
National Core Indicators
The National Core Indicators
(NCI) began in 1997 as a collaborative effort between the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) and the Human Services Research Institute (HSRI). The goal of the program was to encourage and support NASDDDS member agencies to develop a standard set of performance measures that could be used by states to manage quality and across states for making comparisons and setting benchmarks. Fifteen states initially stepped forward to work on the Core Indicators Project, as it was originally known, and pooled their resources to develop valid and reliable data collection protocols. Over time, NCI has become an integral piece of over half the states' quality management systems and aligns with basic requirements for assuring quality in HCBS Waivers. NCI states and project partners continue to work toward the vision of utilizing NCI data not only to improve practice at the state level but also to add knowledge to the field, to influence state and national policy, and to inform strategic planning initiatives for NASDDDS.
Description of NCI
National Core Indicators are a set of performance measures that emphasize the outcomes that people with disabilities within the system desire to attain and the performance of a state to deliver those outcomes. The current set of performance indicators includes approximately 100 consumer, family, systemic, cost, and health and safety outcomes - outcomes that are important to understanding the overall quality of public developmental disabilities agencies. Sources of information include consumer survey (e.g., empowerment and choice issues) family surveys (e.g., satisfaction with supports), and state systems data (e.g., mortality, abuse, etc.). Utilizing a variety of survey sources this ongoing method of assessing performance at the system level will provide useful results for stakeholders’ operations improvement efforts. In addition, the Core Indicators will provide individuals with disabilities and their families information relevant to their concerns and an assurance that the collection of this kind of data will lead to system improvement.
NCI for DODD
For the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, using the NCI as a measure of system performance will provide us with a tremendous amount of systems level data that we can use to monitor the service delivery system, make policy decisions, allocate resources, and help to determine where to make improvements that will better support individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Ohio. Using the NCI surveys will enable us to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the DD service delivery system and will aid us in developing plans to improve the quality of life for the people we support. Never before has DODD had this level of reliable and valid statewide data directly from the people we serve and their families.
National Core Indicators RFP for Year 4 & 5
Bidders Library for NCI RFP
NCI Resources
Link to the 2008-2009 NCI state report
Link to the 2008-2009 Consumer Outcome Report
Ohio NCI Data on
Relationships
(from 2008 -2009 report)
NCI Notes
An
estimated 30,000 Ohioans qualify as being dually diagnosed with mental illness
and developmental disabilities at some point in their lives.
Individuals
with developmental disabilities are less likely to receive adequate and timely
preventive healthcare including mental health, for example 37% of Ohioans with DD are getting the flu
shot, compared to the national average of 56%
Over 80%
of Ohioans with disabilities report they have best friends who are not staff or
family & can see family & friends & can go on dates when they want
to.
Above
stats from National Core Indicators data: Ohio
2008-2009
Link to NCI home page
Link to NASDDDS home page
http://www.nasddds.org/index.shtml