Every year, thousands of people with disabilities, family members and support professionals in Pennsylvania are interviewed by the Independent Monitoring for Quality (IM4Q) project to learn about the overall quality of life for people who receive support through the Office of Developmental Programs in Pennsylvania. The key objective of IM4Q is to provide information that might help improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
The interviews are conducted in each of Pennsylvania’s 48 county Mental Health/Mental Retardation programs by 38 select, independent programs throughout the Commonwealth. Interview teams, each including a person with a disability or a family member of a person with a disability, are carefully selected and thoroughly trained before the interviewing begins.
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University developed the program along with stakeholders, and it created the survey, provides training and technical assistance to the interviewers, analyzes the data, and produces an annual statewide summary report along with reports for each county program.
To request a copy of the IM4Q Statewide Summary Report, please email iod@temple.edu.
Please call Sue Hillen-Jones, IM4Q Program Coordinator at 724-775-1602 x20 or email
shillen-jones@achieva.info 
