Research and Reports

For key reports and publications, visit our new Featured Research page. 

• Sector Scanner 2024: Cascading Challenges (January 2025)
• Sector Scanner 2023 (January 2024)

• ACDS Annual Surveys

• Community Living Accommodations for PDD-Funded Albertans: Recommendations for Effective and Appropriate Facilities Licensing (April 2026)
• Suspension of Canada-Alberta Job Grant and the CDS Sector (September 2024)
• The Chronic Wage Issue 2024 (August 2024)
• The Perfect Storm: Workforce Challenges and Escalating Costs in Community Disability Services (March 2022)
• Community Disability Services Workforce: An Essential Foundation for Quality Supports (February 2022)

• Submission to Continuing Care Legislative Review 2021 (February 2021)
• Moving Forward: A Vision for Framework and Impact
• Moving Forward with Common Goals
• Achieving Sustainability: Recommendations from ACDS for Addressing Challenges in the PDD Program (January 2020)

• COVID-19 Pandemic Year 2: Stories from Alberta's Community Disability Services Sector (October 2021)
• Impact and Insights: COVID-19 and Alberta's Community Disability Services Sector (October 2020)