May 8, 2025
As you know, Karis Disability Services has been undergoing a review of its services by FOCUS Accreditation, one of our accrediting partners, over the past several months. FOCUS Accreditation is an organization that reviews and confirms that the work that we do together meets or exceeds all expectations outlined in FOCUS’ accreditation standards.
For example, one standard expects that Karis develops and maintains a qualified, skilled, and engaged employee team. Another expects that Karis maintains planning and support policy and practice to align a person’s choice and the flexibility of services with the mission of Karis Disability Services. FOCUS validates Karis against a number of standards and expectations and also supports Karis in learning more about some things that we can do to make things even better.
This past week, Cheryl Whiteman, CEO of FOCUS Accreditation shared some thoughts and updates to help wrap up our FOCUS Accreditation review. In this 15-minute video, Cheryl explains a bit about the accreditation process from FOCUS’ perspective, talks about some next steps in our journey to be reaccredited with FOCUS, and highlights some of the things that the FOCUS Validators experienced or heard during the validation.
This video has been posted on CH Connect. Please feel free to take a look at your leisure.
We do not yet know our accreditation status, and we will learn about that in the coming weeks. As Cheryl suggests in her video, however, we do know that a lot of work and effort has gone into this review and that the visits went very well, and, once again, we would like to thank everyone who has been involved.
FOCUS Accreditation Feedback Survey
If you have been involved in the FOCUS Accreditation review, or if you would like to offer feedback to FOCUS about how FOCUS has completed this validation, FOCUS Accreditation has shared the following invitation to complete an online feedback survey:
Now that FOCUS has completed the validation at your organization, as part of our quality improvement process, we would appreciate feedback on our services.
This survey is anonymous and confidential and should take no more than five minutes to complete.
You can find the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8VF7LV9
We kindly ask that survey responses be completed by May 30th.
Please feel free to access this survey directly if you would like to share your thoughts about the FOCUS validation.
Stay tuned for more updates when we learn more about our Accreditation status with FOCUS Accreditation. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact quality@karis.org.
Quality, Research, and Practice Initiatives Department