Enhanced Consumer Participation Model (ECPM)

A 1990 training manual; later accounts also use the name for a step before CSIL

Creekview showed that people with very high support needs could live outside an institution. Haw later described some self-direction there; the evidence does not show a CSIL-style individual employer contract. Later sources describe a different emphasis: funding and employer responsibilities that followed the individual.

They give that later emphasis a name: the Enhanced Consumer Participation Model (ECPM). A 1990 skill-development manual uses the same name. A later bibliography confirms that the manual existed. We have not found a copy to read.

Later organizations also use “ECPM” for an individual-funding project they say came before CSIL. Those two uses may or may not be the same effort. The evidence does not show that Creekview formally became ECPM, or that ECPM formally became CSIL.

What the 1990 manual shows

The strongest public description is a bibliography entry, not a recovered book.

The Roeher Institute / Brian Salisbury bibliography lists a 1990 Skill Development Manual for Consumers of Home Support Services. The listed authors are BC Rehab and Greater Vancouver Home Support Society. The annotation says the manual had five modules and was meant to train consumers to act as employers.

That citation does not name personal authors. It does not give a place, ISBN, or link to CSIL. The manual itself has not been read. We must not guess the module contents. Search-engine copies of the same Roeher line are not a second confirmation.

A bibliography can confirm that a manual existed. It cannot tell us what the unread pages said. The copy is still sought.

What later accounts add

Later sources use “ECPM” as a project name, not only as a manual title.

IFRC “Our Team” calls ECPM “the individual funding project” that preceded CSIL. Gauthier 2014 lists ECPM under “Pre CSIL?” with “The Agency” and “People paid themselves.”

Those are later accounts. They do not supply a 1990s regulation or contract.

Current Vancouver Coastal Health CSIL pages do not use the ECPM name.

People and organizations

Roeher names only the two corporate authors. It does not name editors.

Later IFRC wording places Joseph Theriault and Paul Gauthier in a pre-CSIL story that names ECPM. That is not a title-page credit we have seen. It is not a job title from the time.

Emma Van der Klift wrote a different 1994 chapter, Hell-Bent on Helping, with Norman Kunc. That chapter does not name ECPM or CSIL.

No source we have read names a design committee. Design-group membership is not inferred here.

The unresolved 1994-manual question

No public source has yet confirmed a reported 1994 ECPM training revision. It is not in the Roeher bibliography we have read. No full text or second independent citation was found.

Van der Klift’s 1994 chapter is a real publication from the same year. It is not evidence that she wrote an ECPM manual. The Broadreach copy we have read does not name ECPM, CSIL, BC Rehab, Greater Vancouver Home Support Society, or Vancouver Health Department.

We do not have enough evidence to decide what the reported 1994 item is. It might be a distinct work, a revision of the 1990 manual, a conflicting citation of the same 1990 work, or a mix-up with Hell-Bent on Helping.

No public source we have read names Vancouver Health Department on an ECPM document.

Relationship to later CSIL

Later IFRC and Gauthier wording treat ECPM as a step before CSIL. No 1990s document we have read says Creekview became ECPM, or that ECPM became CSIL. The Creekview chapter does not establish that link.

The two uses of the name — a 1990 manual, and a later “individual-funding project” story — may describe the same effort, related efforts, or a later label. The evidence does not show that overlap as a proven official succession.

Keys on Freedom is still unconfirmed. No independent public source has yet confirmed the title, author, or year. Roeher does not list it. No link to the 1990 ECPM manual is established.

What the sources do support is a change of emphasis. Creekview was a shared housing-and-support project. The 1990 manual, as the bibliography describes it, trained consumers to act as employers. Later accounts then treat ECPM as individual funding that preceded CSIL. The next chapter turns to CSIL as a named ministry program in the mid-1990s.

What we still do not know

  • The 1990 manual’s full text, authors, and module titles.
  • Whether a 1994 ECPM training manual exists as a distinct document.
  • Whether Van der Klift, Theriault, Gauthier, or Vancouver Health Department appear on any ECPM title page.
  • What program or contract “ECPM” named besides the manual.
  • Whether Keys on Freedom is related.
  • Whether any 1990s Ministry of Health file uses the ECPM name in CSIL design.

Leads are listed on the wanted ECPM manuals record.

See also