Community-based care: Back to the future!

A four‐part ecological model of community‐focused therapeutic recreation and life skills services for children and youth with disabilities

“…2007). With reduced resources for direct services, innovative community‐based service delivery models are needed to support the capacity of communities to meet the recreation and social participation needs of these children (Stricklin 1997; Rosenberg 2000; McPherson et al . 2004).…”

“…These changes to the health-care system have led to an emphasis on family-centred, community-based care for children with disabilities (Perrin et al 2007). With reduced resources for direct services, innovative community-based service delivery models are needed to support the capacity of communities to meet the recreation and social participation needs of these children (Stricklin 1997;Rosenberg 2000;McPherson et al 2004). There is a need for services to include health promotion and prevention in addition to the remediation of problems (Bazyk 2011) and a need for collaborative partnership models involving service providers and community members (Rosenberg 2000).…”