Positive Approaches Journal, Volume 8, Issue 3

Data Discoveries

The goal of Data Discoveries is to present useful data using new methods and platforms that can be customized.

In delivering services to individuals, there are often complicated and unpredictable issues around the rights people have to choices, the risks they are entitled to and permitted to take, and the restrictions that may be required for safety. Each of these elements are specific to each individual, both the person receiving services and the person supporting the individual or participant.

In this issue, Data Discoveries seeks to get feedback from across the community on how individuals perceive and experience rights, risks, and restrictions. By using a ‘word cloud,’ responses to a survey distributed across Pennsylvania are presented. Both the size of the word and the color of the word provides information on how often it was mentioned. The size of each word indicates how often it was reported to describe rights, risks, or restrictions, with words that are mentioned more often being larger. Color is also used to indicate if a word was reported more often for rights, risks, or restrictions, with a darker color indicating that a word was mentioned more often than lighter colored words. Separate word clouds were generated for rights, risks, and restrictions because although these concepts often overlap, contrasting their differences is helpful to capturing how they interact. To view the different word clouds, click one of the boxes along the top of the Dashboard labeled ‘Rights’, ‘Risks’, and ‘Restrictions’ and the corresponding word cloud will appear. Results from the survey are linked automatically to Tableau, which was used to create the word cloud, and will be updated weekly for a limited period of time.

To take the survey about rights, risks and restrictions that provides data for the word clouds, click on the box labeled ‘Take the Survey Here!’ or visit: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0HbHExo9HyjRgNL

Learn more about rights, risks, and restrictions by first logging into your MyODP account and then visiting the following links for trainings: Understanding Safety and Your Responsibilities, Foundations of Recognizing and Mitigating Risk, & Addressing Day to Day Risks with the Team.