Julie Ann Racino is an American Educator, Author and Editor, and International Consultant, who is committed to the development of scientifically-based and 'human'istic community services in the US and globally.
Author and Editor
Julie Ann Racino conceptualized the book series, Community Participation Series (Taylor, Racino & Shoultz), prior to the national, federal funding released through the Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers of the US Department of Education. Together with university colleague K. Charlie Lakin from the University of Minnesota, Racino-representing Syracuse University- led the formation of the Center on Families and Community Living in the US in 1990.
In conjunction with the concept of community integration, the first Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Community Integration was developed and federally funded in the US subsequent to a successful 3 year Community Integration Project. For 13 years, the federal-university-state-NGO voluntary sectors participated in the US development of community services and the academic arms in US states that could advance degrees, education, professionalism, publications, and credentialing standards.
Racino just completed a new white paper in International Public Administration: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to the International Treaties on Human Rights and Peace Accords (2019). Together with ASPA colleagues, disability leaders, and panelists, new academic papers include: Expanding Theories in Community Integration and Disability (Racino, Rolandi, Huston and Bergman, 2017) presented in Atlanta, GA.
Academic Concentrations
Educated at Cornell University and benefiting from its 7 schools (E.g., Arts and Sciences, Human Ecology, Engineering, Medicine, Industrial and Labor Relations), Racino specialized in social and physical sciences together with the broad liberal arts Ivy League standards of the university. At Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Racino studied public administration and public policy, expanding her expertise post-development of budgeting and finance, community and economic development, advanced business statistics, and international development and relations.
Post advanced studies at Northwestern University Medical School, Racino has lectured in schools of social work, public administration, education, rehabilitation and human services, nursing and medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and served as Executive Education and Technical Assistance Consultant in the disability fields. Her primary academic work is in the development of interdisciplinary institutes and studies which increase the quality of community services and the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families.
Notable Community Services
Post US exposes of institutions, Racino created with colleagues and governments, new approaches to serving individuals with disabilities in the community termed group homes, supported apartments, supportive living, supported housing, family support services, individual and family support services, personal assistance services, peer support, independent living services, consumer empowerment services, community workers (e.g., followalong, direct services), supported employment, in-home counseling and community living skills, supported education, cash assistance and direct payments, and independent living. These service typologies were accompanied by the establishment of new accreditation agencies, university, government and community standards, regulations, trade organizations, consumer and family organizations, community-based funding, and future development. [1]
International and National Associations
During the period of 2015-2019, Racino served on the American Society for Public Administration, hosting meetings in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL and Denver, CO on the challenges in public administration and disability in the US and globally. In 2017-2018, she served on the Executive Board of Health and Human Services Administration (HHSA) highlighting the development of family support services and other community services in the 1970s to the present in the US.
In 2018, Racino served on the Sections on Science and Technology in Government (STIG), and the Section on the Environment and Natural Resources Administration (SENRA). Representing the US on the International Chapter, she also has served between 2012-2018 on the Budget and Finance Section during which time she assisted in the "budget transition" from the President Obama to the new President Trump Administration.
As part of the Community Founders class, Racino began the housing committee (community living) of the International Association of Persons with Severe Handicaps in 1988, and was instrumental in the development of the federal Home and Community-Based Medicaid Services Waivers in US states. [2] She selected through the nominating committee, the first Executive Director of NYSACRA, New York's NGO sector for advocacy and community services in 1978, and was a Founding Member of Cornell's Center on World Community in 1973.
Her career spans work with international associations from Inclusion International in 2016, to American Association on Intellectual Disabilities (then Mental Retardation) in 1984, to American Public Health Association in 1996 to the Association for the Care of Children's Health, among many others.
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- ^ Racino, Julie Ann. (2014). Public Administration and Disability: Community Services Administration in the US. NY, NY, London, and Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Francis and Taylor.
- ^ Racino, Julie Ann, et al. (1993). Housing, Support and Community:: Choices and Strategies for Adults with Disabilities. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.