Robert W. Prouty, M.S.
Project Coordinator
Bob is a Co-Director of the RTC’s Residential Information Systems Project. His education includes an M.S. and advanced Ph.D. study (ABD) from Syracuse University. He has experience as an elementary and secondary special education teacher, director of a clinic and preschool for children with severe disabilities, a university professor of special education, a private consultant on inclusion of persons with disabilities to US and Canadian school systems and state and provincial governments. Prior to coming to the RTC/CL Bob was a Minnesota state manager of Minnesota’s Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services program for persons with ID/DD.
Organization: Research and Training Center on Community Living
E-mail: (prout004@umn.edu)

• Consumer Directed Community Supports (CDCS) – Trends and Workforce Outcomes
  This activity will study access people with ID/DD and their families have to consumer directed community supports (CDCS). It will... (More)
  
  
• National Residential Information Systems Project and Policy Studies
  For over 20 years, the National Residential Information Systems Project has been collecting and disseminating annually, national a... (More)
  
  
• Status, Trends, and Innovations in Medicaid Support for Community Services
  This project integrates Medicaid HCBS (“waiver”), ICF/MR, and Nursing Facility data collection and national data systems of the RT... (More)
  
  

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National Residential Information Systems Project (RISP) - For over 20 years, the National Residential Information Systems Project has been collecting and disseminating annually, national and state statistics on public and private residential services, Medicaid program utilization, expenditures, etc.   • 2005 RISP Report (PDF) (2006); File Size: 1.03 MB   • 2004 RISP Report (PDF) (2005); File Size: 1.88 MB   • 2003 RISP Report (PDF) (2004); File Size: .98 MB   • 2002 RISP Report (PDF) (2003); File Size: 1.11 MB   • 2001 RISP Report (PDF) (2002); File Size: 1.83 MB   • 2000 RISP Report (PDF) (2001); File Size: 1.57 MB

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Waiting List Report - Results and findings from a national survey of state directors of developmental disabilities services regarding the nature of state programs and responses for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities (MR/DD) waiting for services.   • 2002 Report (PDF) (2002); File Size: 217 KB   • 2000 Report (PDF) (2000); File Size: 166 KB

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  Journal Articles

• Anderson, L., Lakin, K. C., Mangan, T. W., & Prouty, R. W. (1998). State institutions: Thirty years of depopulation and closure. Mental Retardation, 36(6), 431-443.
  
  
• Anderson, L., Prouty, R., & Lakin, K. C. (2000). Parallels in size of residential settings and use of Medicaid financed programs. Mental Retardation, 38(5), 468-471. Mental Retardation, 32(4), 319.
  
  
• Anderson, L., Prouty, R., & Lakin, K. C. (1999). People living in settings other than congregate care for 44% of HCBS recipient. Mental Retardation, 37(5), 428-429.
  
  
• Lakin, K. C., Anderson, L., & Prouty, R. (1999). Medicaid HCBS “waiver” recipients are now twice the number of Medicaid ICF/MR residents. Mental Retardation (4), 341-343.
  
  
• Lakin, K. C., Anderson, L., & Prouty, R. W. (1998). Decreases continue in out-of-home residential placements of children and youth with mental retardation. Mental Retardation, 36(2), 165-168.
  
  
• Lakin, K. C., Anderson, L., Prouty, R., & Polister, B. (1999). Community residential services would require a 72% expansion to serve everyone in community settings. Mental Retardation, 37, 85-86.
  
  
• Lakin, K. C., Prouty, R. W., Anderson, L., & Polister, B. (1998). Changes in Medicaid long-term care expenditures, 1992-1997. Mental Retardation, 36(6), 508-509.
  
  
• Lakin, K. C., Prouty, R. W., Polister, B., & Anderson, L. (2000). Over three-quarters of all residential service recipients were in community settings as of June 1999. Mental Retardation, 38 (4), 378-379.
  
  
• Lakin, K. C., Prouty, R., Polister, B., & Smith, J. (2002). Indicators of change in service for persons with intellectual disabilities: Decade ending June 30, 2002. Mental Retardation, 40(1), 90-96.
  
  
• Lakin, K. C., Smith, J., Prouty, R., & Polister, B. (2001). State institutions during the 1990s: Changes in the number of facilities, average daily populations, and expenditures between Fiscal Years 1991 and 2000. Mental Retardation, 39 (1), 72-75.
  
  
• Smith, G. A., Prouty, R., & Lakin, K. C. (2001). Medicaid long-term care services for people with developmental disabilities-That was then, this is now. Mental Retardation, 39 (6), 488-491.
  
  
• Smith, J., Prouty, R., Polister, B., Kwak, N., & Lakin, K. C., (2001). Large state residential facilities: Status and trends in population characteristics as of June 30, 2000. Mental Retardation, 39 (4), 334-337.
  
  

  Book Chapters

• Larson, S. A., Anderson, L., Prouty, R., Polister, B., & Clayton, C. (1999). Staffing patterns, characteristics and outcomes in large state-operated residential facilities in 1998. In R.W. Prouty & K.C. Lakin (Eds.). Residential services for persons with developmental disabilities: Status and trends through 1998. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, Research and Training Center on Community Living.
  
  
• Larson, S., Prouty, R.W., & Polister, B. (2001). Staffing patterns, characteristics and outcomes in large state-operated residential facilities in 2000. In R W. Prouty, G. Smith, & K. C. Lakin (Eds.), Residential services for persons with developmental disabilities: Status and trends through 2000. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, Research and Training Center on Community Living.
  
  

  Technical Reports

• Anderson, L., Hayden, M. F., Kim, S., Lakin, K. C., Polister, B., & Prouty, B. (1999). Policies and resources related to waiting lists of persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research and Training Center on Community Living/Institute on Community Integration.
  
  
• Polister, B., Blake, E., Prouty, R. W., & Lakin, K. C. (1999). Reinventing Quality: 1998 sourcebook on innovative programs for quality assurance and quality improvement in community services. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research and Training Center on Community Living/Institute on Community integration.
  
  
• Prouty, R. W., & Lakin, K. C. (Eds.). (1998). Residential services for persons with mental retardation and related conditions: Status and trends through 1997. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research and Training Center on Community Living/Institute on Community Integration.
  
  
• Prouty, R., & Lakin, K. C. (1999). Residential services for persons with mental retardation and related conditions: Status and trends through 1998. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research and Training Center on Community Living/Institute on Community integration.
  
  

  RTC Periodicals

• Lakin, K. C., Anderson, L., & Prouty, R. W. (1998). Children and youth receiving residential services for persons with developmental disabilities outside their family home. Policy Research Brief, 9(1), Whole issue.