Valerie J. Bradley
President of the Human Services Research Institute
Ms. Bradley has been the President of the Human Services Research Institute since its inception in 1976. She has a Master’s Degree from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Ms. Bradley has directed numerous state and federal level policy evaluations that have contributed to the expansion, enhancement and responsiveness of services and supports to people with disabilities and their families. She helped to design skills standards for human services workers, conducted a study to translate the experience with decentralization in Scandinavia to an American context, is the project director of a national evaluation of self-determination, helped to design and launch National Core Indicators, and, for the past seven years, has provided technical assistance to states regarding quality management and Home and Community Based waivers. She has edited two books on quality assurance and recently finished a third with Robert Shalock and Jim Gardner, Quality Enhancement in Developmental Disabilities (American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Press). Ms. Bradley is the recent past Chair of the President’s Committee on Intellectual Disabilities. She is also a recent President of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) formerly the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR).
Organization: Human Services Research Institute (HSRI)
E-mail: (vbradley@hsri.org)