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Background – what are the Council Archives?
The PA Developmental
Disabilities Council has long funded creative and innovative efforts in a wide
variety of areas that touch on the lives of people with developmental
disabilities and their families. From
transportation to education, housing to employment, community accessibility to
attendant care, the Council has worked to build a more inclusive Commonwealth
in which all citizens could live an active and full life in the community of
their choice. As a part of many of these
grant funded efforts, a variety of materials have been produced that track
these innovative efforts and create roadmaps and practical guidance that others
might use. This information may help in finding
supports to be an active member of society, to build community capacities or to
seek systemic change in the way supports, programming and funding are available
in Pennsylvania. Although many of these products have had a
wide initial distribution, once the original grant end, further distributions
of these valuable materials becomes inconsistent, dependent largely on the
ongoing capacity of individual grantees to continue these efforts.
The Council recognized the
need to find a more consistent way of organizing and sharing these valuable
materials beyond the life of the original grants which produced them. And so, through a grant with the Lehigh Valley Center for Independent
Living, materials dating back fifteen years were reviewed and
cataloged. These items included printed materials such
as manuals, journal articles, books, guidelines, vision documents, resource
directories, curricula, etc.; or other media materials such as video
productions, web-casts, television or radio programming, etc. An annotated bibliography and a searchable
data base were developed to promote awareness and to allow access to these
valuable materials.
How do I access Council Archive materials?
By clicking on the various
links below, you will be able to access an annotated
bibliography of archived materials that are housed in the Council’s Harrisburg offices.
You also have the option to
use the searchable data base of
materials to view additional information and to access links to those materials
that are available on-line. This data base allows the user to search for
materials by topic, title, author, year and keywords.
For those archive materials which do not have
a direct link, you can use the contact
us link to make inquiries to Council staff members regarding a particular
archived item. Due to the historical
nature and limited availability of some of these items, the Council is not
offering a lending option for these materials.
Materials can, however, be viewed and copied. Additionally, some multiple copies of
materials do exist and are available for distribution. Please contact staff noted under this link
for further information.
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