Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)

Accreditation: to develop standards and related education in support of the Accreditation of human services programs. The Accreditation process applies sets of standards to service areas and business practices during an on-site survey. Accreditation, however, is an ongoing process, signaling to the public that a service provider is committed to continuously improving services, encouraging feedback, and serving the community. Accreditation also demonstrates a provider's commitment to enhance its performance, manage its risk, and distinguish its service delivery.

Stakeholder experience surveys: carf develops survey instruments and assists service providers with collecting, analyzing and reporting survey data. Service providers use the information and implement changes based on feedback from consumers, employees and other key stakeholders, which enables them to improve the services they provide. Carf helps many human service providers with their survey needs. Included in this program is uspeq (pronounced "you speak"), which stands for universal stakeholder participation experience questionnaires. Uspeq is a research based survey tool designed by carf, which was developed as a turnkey data collection and reporting system to gather information from key stakeholders in response to the field's desire to aspire to excellence in health and human services.