Goodlife Innovations

See schedule ogoodlife innovations:goodlife exists because having disabilities of any kind should not stop you from living a meaningful, purposeful, and satisfying life.in the pursuit of solutions to our industry's chronic challenges, for nearly a half century, Goodlife has collaborated with talented faculty and doctoral students from the university of Kansas, department of applied behavioral science (ku-abs) to develop nationally recognized and award-winning community-based support models.goodlife with ku-abs are nationally respected for training new board certified behavior analysts (bcbas) who are focused on clinical excellence and adept at creating systems of support for community providers nationwide.goodlife has a 47-year old history of accomplishments. From its partnership with ku-abs, Goodlife university was created to build the capacity, stability, and quality of the direct support professional (dsp) workforce for community services providers nationwide. (more on Goodlife university has been provided in the next section. )Goodlife served lead roles in closing six (6) institutions, including norton state hospital, pioneer village, and winfield state hospital in Kansas; clover bottom and arlington developmental centers in central and west Tennessee; and (at the request of the state of California) agnews developmental center in san jose.to accomplish these closures--and effectively serve individuals with significant and severe intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) in the community--goodlife developed and implemented cutting edge service models. Goodlife and its partners incorporated these models into existing, non-profit community-based organizations, or the Goodlife team would build new provider organizations from the ground up.as a result of this work, Goodlife built a strong behavioral, health, housing, transportation, and workforce infrastructure benefiting people with significant and complex health and behavioral health needs in the heartland. This infrastructure is a tool, but it also fuels a constant stream of very challenging referrals to Goodlife of persons with i/dd and complex, challenging behavior.now, Goodlife provides over $36m of i/dd services annually in Kansas and Arkansas, where it develops and demonstrates evolving service models (that are integrated with ilink) and organizational practices in collaboration with its partners. Goodlife's team offers extensive experience implementing cost-effective, practical, and proactive tiered models of behavioral support. This includes comprehensive behavioral health training programs that build the capacity of community services providers to prevent, de-escalate, and manage persons with complex behavioral challenges in inclusive community homes and settings.goodlife has more than 300 employees and 100 shared living contractors, supporting approximately 500 individuals with disabilities in Kansas and Arkansas.

See schedule ogoodlife university:goodlife university exists because "the way we've always done it" isn't good enough--we can do better.goodlife university was built out of the nearly half-century-long relationship between Goodlife Innovations and the university of Kansas department of applied behavioral science (ku-abs). In simplest terms, this partnership delivers a win-win to both organizations: Goodlife benefits by receiving dedicated talent from ku-abs graduate students that conduct external quality assurance evaluations for Goodlife's service models and programs, and ku-abs graduate students benefit by receiving direct, practicum experience with adults who have significant intellectual or developmental disabilities (i/dd). To this end, Goodlife's partnership with ku-abs grants very affordable, immediate access to high-quality behavioral supports. However, the relationship goes much deeper than this thanks to our robust and intertwined history.from the moment Goodlife was imagined, faculty and thought-leaders from ku-abs were included in the conversation to help answer the question, "what does a good life look like for individuals with i/dd?" Institutions and facility-based care models were falling out of favor and the nation was looking for proven, community-based solutions. Ku-abs has a storied history, full of incredible talent and meaningful accomplishments. They are known for their work in creating models and services used nationally (e.g. Boys town) and for supporting more than 15k agencies nationwide that serve populations with challenging behaviors. Ku-abs also created and disseminated the community tool box, contributed to the creation of the sesame street curriculum, and founded the field's premier research journal, the journal of applied behavior analysis. Its alumni have held leadership roles in our nation's most prestigious behavioral programs, and were teachers, advisors, and mentors to many Goodlife alum. Committed to the development of programs and services for adults with complex care needs, ku-abs faculty joined the families, guardians, and advocates of kansans with significant i/dd in a tremendous grassroots effort to improve the quality of care.now, nearly 50 years later, Goodlife university is a thought-leading innovation engine that creates and delivers the next generation of best-practice community support for people who need effective, affordable help to live enriched, independent, and empowered lives of purpose. Goodlife university helps home and community-based service providers, states, and managed care organizations:1. Meaningfully improve the capacity, stability, and quality of our nation's direct support workforce. (this includes initiatives to improve dsp stability, training, support, pay, and benefits within currently budgeted resources.)2. Build and widely disseminate technology-leveraged service approaches that empower people to affordably receive the right support when and where needed to live their version of a good life. (this includes strategies for helping agencies migrate their service approaches to be leveraged by advanced technologies.)3. Create deep strategic provider, service, and funding partnerships that co-op and scale talent, increase and leverage resources, and focus this collective strategy and influence to advance Goodlife's charitable mission.goodlife university's contributions include our workforce capacity solutions, education and training services, service model demonstrations (e.g. Neighborhood network and professional family [shared living]), behavioral services, and dissemination of ilink technologies.goodlife university produces video blogs, conducts and publishes applied research, and freely shares its impact/outcomes with community-based providers online and at regional and national conferences in order to inspire a culture of continuous improvement.