Skills on Wheels: Maintaining Quality During Expansion

Abstract

A team with collaborators from a Midwestern university and the local children’s hospital have implemented Skills on Wheels, a wheelchair skills program for the pediatric population. After a successful pilot program, the team identified areas of program improvement for the next session of the program running the following year. The gaps identified were in participant screening, volunteer training, and assessment standardization. This capstone focused on addressing these gaps by providing processes for improving the program. The capstone student worked collaboratively with the Skills on Wheels team to complete a detailed needs assessment and propose solutions for the identified gaps with the goal of program improvement.