QISP
Quality Indicators
for School-Based Practice
Developed to promote effective school occupational therapy services.
OUR STORY
After years of providing occupational therapy services in schools, we realized that the lack of a framework to guide therapists’ professional reasoning limited the efficacy of occupational therapy services. So, we set out to develop a framework grounded in policy, research and best practices.
Providing high quality and high value services leads to consistent, reliable, and effective outcomes and is a hallmark in nearly all policy conversations and guidance documentation. To provide the needed framework and to meet the demand for high quality services, quality indicators have been developed across disciplines and practice settings.
RESULTS
Quality Indicators
Aim to Ensure...
Effective
service delivery value
and outcome.
MISSION VISION GOALS
Quality indicators are multidimensional and actionable measures of the quality of services and lead directly from observation of practice to professional advocacy, development, and planning. Quality indicators provide tools to track practice strengths, need, and change over time and identify areas that need further research.
To have a set of guiding, actionable principles that school-based occupational therapy practitioners and other stakeholders can use to demonstrate occupational therapy’s distinct value.
This is accomplished through evidence-based decision-making, and high quality occupational therapy services in the schools.
OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
That quality indicators will be a reflective, evaluative, and actionable summary of key principles of quality school-based occupational therapy services. That they will be utilized by occupational therapy practitioners and educators as well as other stakeholders, including administrators and family members, in order to determine the presence of quality services and identify opportunities for quality improvement.
Additionally, these indicators would be used to guide evaluation of school-based occupational therapy practitioners and programs, to develop occupational therapy programs, to inform program updates, to identify competencies and to identify continuing education priorities.
OUR VISION
OUR VISION
That Quality Indicators Will:
Inform occupational therapy practitioners and educators regarding effective school-based practices.
Provide administrators and other stakeholders evidence-based resources regarding effective school-based practices to support improved student outcomes.
Support the attainment of local, regional, and national school-wide objectives.
Support interdisciplinary collaboration in the service of student and school-wide goals.
OUR GOALS
OUR GOALS
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