How to Get Involved

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Tasks of Each Role

Council members meet once per month to discuss:

  • RQC project progress
  • Conferences
  • Trainings
  • Work group updates
  • Community Concerns

Positive Supports Network Members:

  • Participate in orientation about Positive Supports
  • Share their expertise.
  • Help identify recommendations for the state.
  • Attend monthly meetings.
  • Work on projects outside of meetings (optional).

Volunteers will assist the Regional Quality Council in gaining a better understanding of what regions need to help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. Examples of volunteer tasks may include:

  • Learn to lead or help lead:
    • Focus groups
    • Community conversations
    • Listening sessions
    • One to one interviews
  • Gather and record information from these sessions
  • Volunteers may attend training to assist them to learn and demonstrate their assigned role
Each RQC has a full-time coordinator and a part-time associate. Duties of RQC staff can include:

  • Co-Create agendas for council meetings with council members
  • Coordinate council meetings
  • Quality improvement project management
    • Create training material
    • Write reports on disability services data for each region
  • Attend conferences in order to represent the RQC

The RQCs gather information and want to hear from you about topics such as:

  • Housing
  • Staffing
  • Transportation
  • And more!

The information gathered will help us learn about best practices and barriers to accessing quality of support and services for people with disabilities in Minnesota. This information will also inform regional quality improvement work as well as individual, community, and systems of change.

To review data analysis from information gathered through 560 person-centered quality reviews conducted November 2017 through March 2020 by trained RQC Quality Reviewers, feel free to read the University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration’s analysis HERE. For a summary handout of the ICI analysis, please click HERE.