# Toolkit

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## The toolkit includes six topical sections:

1. [Background information on Community Life Engagement.](https://cletoolkit.communityinclusion.org/introduction-new)
2. [Self-assessment materials to get you started thinking about your own CLE policies and services.](https://cletoolkit.thinkwork.org/chapter1)
3. [Guidepost 1: Individualize supports for each person.](https://cletoolkit.thinkwork.org/i----guidepost-1-individualize-supports-for-each-person)
4. [Guidepost 2: Promote community membership and contribution.](https://cletoolkit.thinkwork.org/guidepost_2_promote_community_membership_and_contr)
5. [Guidepost 3: Use human and social capital to decrease dependence on paid supports.](https://cletoolkit.thinkwork.org/guidepost_3_human_and_social_capital)
6. [Guidepost 4: Provide supports that are outcome-oriented and regularly monitored.](https://cletoolkit.thinkwork.org/guidepost_4_individualization)

Community Life Engagement is a project of [ThinkWork!](http://www.thinkwork.org/) at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. ThinkWork! is a resource portal offering data, personal stories, and tools related to improving employment outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Not sure where to begin? Looking for more individualized guidance? Contact Jaimie Timmons to learn more about technical assistance options from ICI Consulting: [Jaimie Timmons@umb.edu](mailto:jaimie.timmons@umb.edu).

## Funding Sources

Funding for Community Life Engagement is provided in part by The Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Community Living, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under cooperative agreement #90DN0295, and by The National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education, Field Initiated Program, under grant # H133G140150.


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