Community Environmental Assessment Project

Rather than measuring a person's variables in understanding disability, this project will develop an integrated multi-method approach to measure a community's level of accessibility/enablement through a process of community engagement and use of extant data. Effectively measuring community accessibility through the explication and depiction of extant data at the local level can provide the means for participatory social change a low cost, using available resources. By asking community members and reviewing data, this project looks at how accessible our community really is to people with disabilities. These researchers hope to promote social change using existing community resources.

Results from our assessment project can be reviewed at our publications page.

Lisa Voltolina
707 SW Gaines Street
Portland, OR 97239
(voice) 503.494.3331
7.1.1 Relay Service
(fax) 503.494.6868
voltolin@ohsu.edu