Rainbow Center earns 3-year accreditation

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Rainbow Center for Communicative Disorders has been accredited for three years for its Children and Youth Services, Community Integration and Respite Services programs. The accreditation was announced by CARF International.
The latest accreditation is the fourth three-year accreditation that the international accrediting body has awarded to Rainbow Center.
This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be awarded to an organization and shows the organization’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards.
An organization receiving a three-year accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer-review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable, and accountable.
Rainbow Center is a not-for-profit organization with facilities at 900 N.W. Woods Chapel Road and 3420 N.W. Kingsridge Drive in Blue Springs. It has been providing day-school programming for children with disabilities from 18 surrounding school districts and day habilitation for adults the disabilities in the Eastern Jackson County area since 1977.
CARF is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served.
Founded in 1966 as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, and now known as CARF, the accrediting body establishes consumer-focused standards to help organizations measure and improve the quality of their programs and services.