Tom Seekins
Biographic Data
| ID | 4192265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Seekins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Seekins |
| SIGNATURE | SEEKINS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Financial Cost—Benefit Analysis of a Health Promotion Program for Individuals With Mobility Impairments
People with disabilities make up approximately 20% of the U.S. population but account for 47% of total medical expenditures (Max, Rice, & Trupin, 1996). Health promotion programs represent one strategy for both improving health and containing medical costs for this population. This study examined the financial net benefits of the Living Well with a Disability health promotion program from the perspective of a third-party payer. Net benefits were …
Introduction: Disability and community development
Worldwide, 600 million people live with disability, 80% of whom live in developing countries (World Health Organization, 2005). But the idea of disability is controversial, influenced by culture and competing conceptual systems (Altman, 2001; Zola, 1993). Fujiura and Rutkowski-Kmitta (2001) argue that industrialized Western nations tend to emphasize a restricted-activity approach to estimate the rate of disability within their populations, includ…
A citizen‐led program for rural community economic development: Two case studies
The Citizen‐Led Economic Development Project facilitates a leadership role in rural economic development for people with disabilities and agencies that serve them. If people with disabilities and human service agencies are involved in economic development activities, it is anticipated that local decision‐making will better address their interests. Using Project guidelines, people with disabilities lead a community economic assessment using "impor…
Accessible rural transportation: An evaluation of the traveler's cheque voucher program
This article reports on a study that examined the effectiveness of a voucher model of rural transportation for people with disabilities. The authors stress that the lack of transportation is one of the most significant and frequently reported problems affecting people with disabilities who live in rural communities and those who serve them. Ten community programs in ten states operated the voucher program over a four-year period to provide transp…
A Preliminary Assessment of the Nutrition and Food-System Environment of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities Living in Supported Arrangements in the Community
This preliminary study characterized the adequacy of planned diets in two community-based, supported-living arrangements for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities in Montana. The goals were to clarify the residents’ nutritional risks and to identify appropriate areas and means for intervention. Observations, interviews, and analyses of menus, shopping lists, and grocery receipts led to conclusions about the residents’ dietary adequa…
Assessing the Geographic Distribution of Centers for Independent Living Across Urban and Rural Areas: Toward a Policy of Universal Access
Centers for Independent Living (CILs) have emerged as a significant source of services, supports, and advocacy for people with disabilities in the United States. Since 1978, the federal government has funded an increasing number of CILs around the nation to provide services to and advocate for people with disabilities. Others have been created with state and local funding. No data have been collected to assess the extent of CIL expansion, however…
American Indian Disability Legislation and Programs: Findings of the First National Survey of Tribal Governments
American Indian tribes are sovereign nations, and, like most U.S. civil rights legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 therefore specif ically excluded reservations from its coverage. As a result, little is known about the status of disability policies among Indian nations. American Indian tribes were surveyed to collect information about issues related to disability legislation, to learn whether the tribe had developed written l…
Self-Employment as a Vocational Rehabilitation Closure: An Examination of State Policies
The operation and funding of federal and state offices of vocational rehabilitation (VR) are governed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Under the Rehabilitation Act, an individual can work toward the goal of attaining one of a range of employment options, including self-employment. While federal law appears not to favor one type of employment situation over another, self employment as a VR closure is not used as often as might be expected. Altho…
A contextual‐behavioral model of empowerment: Case studies involving people with physical disabilities
When people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older adults, women, and others lack power, they usually experience adverse conditions disproportionate to other members of society. Emproverment—the process by which people gain some control over valued events, outcomes, and resources—is an important construct for understanding and improving the lives of people of marginal status. This manuscript presents a contextual‐behavioral model of empowerm…
Secondary Disability Prevention: Involving Consumers in the Development of a Public Health Surveillance Instrument
Recent legislation has directed the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service to develop a program of disability prevention. Importantly, this new program focuses attention on preventing secondary disabilities—conditions that occur after an individual has acquired a primary (or first) disability. An important influence on the agenda of secondary disability prevention involves identifying the conditions that define the problem for i…
Empowering people with physical disabilities through advocacy skills training
Members of an advocacy organization for people with physical disabilities were trained to identify and report issues at group meetings. In addition, two consecutive chairpersons were trained to conduct action-oriented meetings. Measures of group members' activities outside meetings and related outcomes on identified issues were also collected. Results indicated increases in the number of disability-related issues reported by trained members and c…
Low‐income voter registration: A small‐scale evaluation of an agency‐based registration strategy
Effects of a poverty‐clients agenda on resource allocations by community decision makers
A coalition of human service agencies in one city used the Concerns Report Method of Basic Needs and Vital Services to obtain information on the concerns of their poverty clients. Results were disseminated to local decision makers of the United Way agency, city commission, and county commission during their annual budget deliberations. Two standard accounting methods were used to compare budget allocations to agencies serving low-income people be…
Policy Research and Child Passenger Safety Legislation: A Case Study and Experimental Evaluation
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for children over 1 year old. Successful attempts to enact child passenger safety legislation illustrate a potential role for public policy in reducing the risk of injury and death to children. This report describes the development and use of research information to influence decisions on child passenger safety bills before state legislatures in Kansas and Illinois. In a case study in Kansas and a cont…
Enhancing leadership skills for community self-help organizations through behavioral instruction
Group members with skills to lead effective meetings are valuable resources of any community organization. The effects of a behaviorally based textbook and training procedures designed to teach members of community self-help groups to chair effective meetings were analyzed. Measures were collected during regularly scheduled meetings on chairperson performance, member participation, and the closure of discussion topics. The results showed that the…
Developing and transferring behavioral technologies for children and youth
A contextual‐behavioral model of empowerment: Case studies involving people with physical disabilities
When people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older adults, women, and others lack power, they usually experience adverse conditions disproportionate to other members of society. Emproverment—the process by which people gain some control over valued events, outcomes, and resources—is an important construct for understanding and improving the lives of people of marginal status. This manuscript presents a contextual‐behavioral model of empowerm…
Empowering people with physical disabilities through advocacy skills training
Members of an advocacy organization for people with physical disabilities were trained to identify and report issues at group meetings. In addition, two consecutive chairpersons were trained to conduct action-oriented meetings. Measures of group members' activities outside meetings and related outcomes on identified issues were also collected. Results indicated increases in the number of disability-related issues reported by trained members and c…
A citizen‐led program for rural community economic development: Two case studies
The Citizen‐Led Economic Development Project facilitates a leadership role in rural economic development for people with disabilities and agencies that serve them. If people with disabilities and human service agencies are involved in economic development activities, it is anticipated that local decision‐making will better address their interests. Using Project guidelines, people with disabilities lead a community economic assessment using "impor…
Effects of a poverty‐clients agenda on resource allocations by community decision makers
A coalition of human service agencies in one city used the Concerns Report Method of Basic Needs and Vital Services to obtain information on the concerns of their poverty clients. Results were disseminated to local decision makers of the United Way agency, city commission, and county commission during their annual budget deliberations. Two standard accounting methods were used to compare budget allocations to agencies serving low-income people be…
Policy Research and Child Passenger Safety Legislation: A Case Study and Experimental Evaluation
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for children over 1 year old. Successful attempts to enact child passenger safety legislation illustrate a potential role for public policy in reducing the risk of injury and death to children. This report describes the development and use of research information to influence decisions on child passenger safety bills before state legislatures in Kansas and Illinois. In a case study in Kansas and a cont…
Introduction: Disability and community development
Worldwide, 600 million people live with disability, 80% of whom live in developing countries (World Health Organization, 2005). But the idea of disability is controversial, influenced by culture and competing conceptual systems (Altman, 2001; Zola, 1993). Fujiura and Rutkowski-Kmitta (2001) argue that industrialized Western nations tend to emphasize a restricted-activity approach to estimate the rate of disability within their populations, includ…
Low‐income voter registration: A small‐scale evaluation of an agency‐based registration strategy
Accessible rural transportation: An evaluation of the traveler's cheque voucher program
This article reports on a study that examined the effectiveness of a voucher model of rural transportation for people with disabilities. The authors stress that the lack of transportation is one of the most significant and frequently reported problems affecting people with disabilities who live in rural communities and those who serve them. Ten community programs in ten states operated the voucher program over a four-year period to provide transp…
Assessing the Geographic Distribution of Centers for Independent Living Across Urban and Rural Areas: Toward a Policy of Universal Access
Centers for Independent Living (CILs) have emerged as a significant source of services, supports, and advocacy for people with disabilities in the United States. Since 1978, the federal government has funded an increasing number of CILs around the nation to provide services to and advocate for people with disabilities. Others have been created with state and local funding. No data have been collected to assess the extent of CIL expansion, however…
Secondary Disability Prevention: Involving Consumers in the Development of a Public Health Surveillance Instrument
Recent legislation has directed the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service to develop a program of disability prevention. Importantly, this new program focuses attention on preventing secondary disabilities—conditions that occur after an individual has acquired a primary (or first) disability. An important influence on the agenda of secondary disability prevention involves identifying the conditions that define the problem for i…
Developing and transferring behavioral technologies for children and youth
Developing and transferring behavioral technologies for children and youth
Enhancing leadership skills for community self-help organizations through behavioral instruction
Group members with skills to lead effective meetings are valuable resources of any community organization. The effects of a behaviorally based textbook and training procedures designed to teach members of community self-help groups to chair effective meetings were analyzed. Measures were collected during regularly scheduled meetings on chairperson performance, member participation, and the closure of discussion topics. The results showed that the…
Effects of a poverty‐clients agenda on resource allocations by community decision makers
A coalition of human service agencies in one city used the Concerns Report Method of Basic Needs and Vital Services to obtain information on the concerns of their poverty clients. Results were disseminated to local decision makers of the United Way agency, city commission, and county commission during their annual budget deliberations. Two standard accounting methods were used to compare budget allocations to agencies serving low-income people be…
Policy Research and Child Passenger Safety Legislation: A Case Study and Experimental Evaluation
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for children over 1 year old. Successful attempts to enact child passenger safety legislation illustrate a potential role for public policy in reducing the risk of injury and death to children. This report describes the development and use of research information to influence decisions on child passenger safety bills before state legislatures in Kansas and Illinois. In a case study in Kansas and a cont…
Low‐income voter registration: A small‐scale evaluation of an agency‐based registration strategy
Secondary Disability Prevention: Involving Consumers in the Development of a Public Health Surveillance Instrument
Recent legislation has directed the Centers for Disease Control of the Public Health Service to develop a program of disability prevention. Importantly, this new program focuses attention on preventing secondary disabilities—conditions that occur after an individual has acquired a primary (or first) disability. An important influence on the agenda of secondary disability prevention involves identifying the conditions that define the problem for i…
Empowering people with physical disabilities through advocacy skills training
Members of an advocacy organization for people with physical disabilities were trained to identify and report issues at group meetings. In addition, two consecutive chairpersons were trained to conduct action-oriented meetings. Measures of group members' activities outside meetings and related outcomes on identified issues were also collected. Results indicated increases in the number of disability-related issues reported by trained members and c…
Self-Employment as a Vocational Rehabilitation Closure: An Examination of State Policies
The operation and funding of federal and state offices of vocational rehabilitation (VR) are governed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Under the Rehabilitation Act, an individual can work toward the goal of attaining one of a range of employment options, including self-employment. While federal law appears not to favor one type of employment situation over another, self employment as a VR closure is not used as often as might be expected. Altho…
A contextual‐behavioral model of empowerment: Case studies involving people with physical disabilities
When people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older adults, women, and others lack power, they usually experience adverse conditions disproportionate to other members of society. Emproverment—the process by which people gain some control over valued events, outcomes, and resources—is an important construct for understanding and improving the lives of people of marginal status. This manuscript presents a contextual‐behavioral model of empowerm…
Assessing the Geographic Distribution of Centers for Independent Living Across Urban and Rural Areas: Toward a Policy of Universal Access
Centers for Independent Living (CILs) have emerged as a significant source of services, supports, and advocacy for people with disabilities in the United States. Since 1978, the federal government has funded an increasing number of CILs around the nation to provide services to and advocate for people with disabilities. Others have been created with state and local funding. No data have been collected to assess the extent of CIL expansion, however…
American Indian Disability Legislation and Programs: Findings of the First National Survey of Tribal Governments
American Indian tribes are sovereign nations, and, like most U.S. civil rights legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 therefore specif ically excluded reservations from its coverage. As a result, little is known about the status of disability policies among Indian nations. American Indian tribes were surveyed to collect information about issues related to disability legislation, to learn whether the tribe had developed written l…
A Preliminary Assessment of the Nutrition and Food-System Environment of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities Living in Supported Arrangements in the Community
This preliminary study characterized the adequacy of planned diets in two community-based, supported-living arrangements for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities in Montana. The goals were to clarify the residents’ nutritional risks and to identify appropriate areas and means for intervention. Observations, interviews, and analyses of menus, shopping lists, and grocery receipts led to conclusions about the residents’ dietary adequa…
A Financial Cost—Benefit Analysis of a Health Promotion Program for Individuals With Mobility Impairments
People with disabilities make up approximately 20% of the U.S. population but account for 47% of total medical expenditures (Max, Rice, & Trupin, 1996). Health promotion programs represent one strategy for both improving health and containing medical costs for this population. This study examined the financial net benefits of the Living Well with a Disability health promotion program from the perspective of a third-party payer. Net benefits were …
Introduction: Disability and community development
Worldwide, 600 million people live with disability, 80% of whom live in developing countries (World Health Organization, 2005). But the idea of disability is controversial, influenced by culture and competing conceptual systems (Altman, 2001; Zola, 1993). Fujiura and Rutkowski-Kmitta (2001) argue that industrialized Western nations tend to emphasize a restricted-activity approach to estimate the rate of disability within their populations, includ…
A citizen‐led program for rural community economic development: Two case studies
The Citizen‐Led Economic Development Project facilitates a leadership role in rural economic development for people with disabilities and agencies that serve them. If people with disabilities and human service agencies are involved in economic development activities, it is anticipated that local decision‐making will better address their interests. Using Project guidelines, people with disabilities lead a community economic assessment using "impor…
Accessible rural transportation: An evaluation of the traveler's cheque voucher program
This article reports on a study that examined the effectiveness of a voucher model of rural transportation for people with disabilities. The authors stress that the lack of transportation is one of the most significant and frequently reported problems affecting people with disabilities who live in rural communities and those who serve them. Ten community programs in ten states operated the voucher program over a four-year period to provide transp…
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