VALID8 Pilot Project

VALID8 is unique because team members get training in how to co-design and conduct quality assurance processes.
These processes focus on whether staff and management of disability group homes are supporting people who live in them to advocate for themselves and be empowered.
The VALID8 tool started as a self-audit for Disability Services. This audit was designed to help these services learn whether they were doing what they could to empower people with intellectual disability to live their own lives. It was also a way services could define and develop best practice to help empower people they support.
The VALID8 tool is now the ‘VALID8 Service User Review of Empowerment Practice’. This Review is a tool the VALID8 team uses to help improve and support the quality of self-advocacy and empowerment practices in disability group homes.