Projects
Researching Provider Solutions in Florida
2023–2024
Project Overview
Objective
This project sought to identify ideas and strategies that could help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Florida recruit and retain paid direct care support.
Project Motivation
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities often require direct care services to perform activities of daily living. The widespread shortage of direct care service providers has adversely affected the intellectual and developmental disabilities community. This shortage has created hardships for people with intellectual and developmental disabilties and their families as they struggle to find assistance to meet basic care needs.
Prepared For
Florida Developmental Disabilities Council
In partnership with the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, Mathematica worked to identify ideas and strategies that could help the intellectual and developmental disabilities community in Florida recruit and retain paid direct care support.
The widespread shortage of direct care service providers adversely affects people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The inability to access direct care supports can compromise the health and well-being of people with intellectual and developmental disabilties.
Mathematica conducted the Researching Provider Solutions project for the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council to identify ideas and strategies for recruiting and retaining paid direct care support. Mathematica used multiple work streams—an environmental scan, a web-based survey, interviews, and a work group—to understand the direct care experiences of Floridians with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
The findings in the final report include several recommendations for the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, state agencies, policymakers and residents, the intellectual and developmental disabilities community, and other interested groups that might work in tandem to improve access to direct care support.
Mathematica conducted the Researching Provider Solutions project for the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council to identify ideas and strategies for recruiting and retaining paid direct care support. Mathematica used multiple work streams—an environmental scan, a web-based survey, interviews, and a work group—to understand the direct care experiences of Floridians with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
The findings in the final report include several recommendations for the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, state agencies, policymakers and residents, the intellectual and developmental disabilities community, and other interested groups that might work in tandem to improve access to direct care support.
Evidence & Insights From This Project
Publication
Researching Provider Solutions in Florida—Executive Summary
This executive summary describes the final report of the Researching Provider Solutions project. FDDC hired Mathematica in January 2023 to conduct the project, which included an environmental scan of relevant literature, an online survey, interviews, and a work group—to examine how Floridians with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families experience direct care.
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