The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
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Providing information, education, and training to build knowledge, develop skills, and change attitudes that will lead to increased independence, productivity, self determination, integration and inclusion (IPSII) for people with developmental disabilities and their families.

The METO Settlement

Steve Larson: What is Positive Programming?

Steve Larson: They should have been using positive programming for individuals, which is extensively known and taught around the nation about how to interact with people that are potentially violent, to try to minimize any potential for violence and have a plan to cope with that and address it when it occurs that doesn't involve the types of restraints we're talking about here or even prone restraint, which means laying someone face down on the ground, which can be very dangerous, both to the individual who is being restrained and to the people that are doing it.

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The GCDD is funded under the provisions of P.L. 106-402. The federal law also provides funding to the Minnesota Disability Law Center, the state Protection and Advocacy System, and to the Institute on Community Integration, the state University Center for Excellence. The Minnesota network of programs works to increase the IPSII of people with developmental disabilities and families into community life.

This project was supported, in part by grant number 2001MNSCDD-03, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.

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