American Support Standards Initiative

A Whole-Quality Initiative for Personal, Social, and Employment Support-Service 

 

 

Making Support Quality Visible


 

 

 

AMSI’s Role in Personal and Social Support Services

 

AMSI develops voluntary, non-regulatory standards, vocabularies, Context Guides, and analytical tools for understanding and determining the quality of personal, social, and employment support services.

 

AMSI considers a defined Support-Service Quality Object as a whole—its intended functions and intended results, internal composition, boundaries, interfaces, lifecycle and operating conditions, evidence, uncertainty, Critical Conditions, and the limits of any Quality Claim.

 

AMSI Framework

 

AMSI applies the Whole Quality methodology to connect:

 

Support-Service Quality Objects
Intended Functions and Intended Results
Boundaries and Interfaces
Quality Factors and Quality Indicators
Quality Outcome Criteria and Evidence
Critical Conditions and Non-Compensability
Support-Service Quality State Determination
Bounded Support-Service Quality Claims

 

 

Together, these concepts make support-service quality visible, understandable, evidence-supported, and responsibly bounded.

 

 

Who AMSI Serves

 

AMSI resources support:

 

• Individuals receiving support • Families • Support professionals • Service providers • Vocational Rehabilitation professionals • Policymakers • Researchers • Standards developers

 

 

AMSI Publications

 

AMSI publications lead readers from foundational concepts to practical support-service applications:

 

Foundational Articles on Support Quality

AMSI_VOC1 — Support-Service Applied Vocabulary Standard

Personal Aid Quality Core Standard

Vocational Rehabilitation Job Coaching Core Standard

Personal Aid Context Guides

Vocational Rehabilitation Context Guides

Quality State Determination Tools and Diagrams

Publications and Analysis

 

 

Updates

Updates on AMSI standards, publications, and practical support-quality work.

A Whole Quality 

Approach

to Support Services

 

 

See the whole Support-Service Quality Object.

 

Understand its intended functions and intended results.

 

Understand its boundaries and interfaces.

 

Observe Quality Factors and Quality Indicators.

 

Use sufficient evidence.

 

Determine the Quality State.

 

Make only bounded Responsible Quality Claims.