PLAN Institute, a British Columbia based agency, has a personal network development approach that has many features in common with person-centered planning and citizen-centered leadership. Their approach, and the Canadian government's provisions for family savings and community sourced fiscal support are profiled in the NY Times from June.
NY Times 'Fixes' Blog: Personal Network Development for Persons with Disabilities
Friday, August 16, 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013
AGI Launches Daily Living/Residential Curriculum for Direct Support Providers
With partners Autism Speaks, Institute for Integrated Self Advocacy, and The Autism Research Institute, the Autism Global Institute is launching an online course for direct support for persons with ASD.
The course with online instruction and completion certificate is $300 per person.
Very encouraged to see this given the people involved -- looks like it will be a good supplement to NYS mandated training for direct support.
The course with online instruction and completion certificate is $300 per person.
Very encouraged to see this given the people involved -- looks like it will be a good supplement to NYS mandated training for direct support.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
NYS OPWDD Transformation Agreement and Self-Direction
Announced in April, the Transformation Agreement that OPWDD reached with the federal Center for Medicaid Services requires it to make and meet some ambitious goals concerning self-direction:
• Provide education to at least 1,500 beneficiaries (with designated representatives as needed) per quarter beginning on April 1, 2013Presentation slides on the whole package can be seen at: http://www.opwdd.ny.gov/node/3881 (best seen with IE or Safari).
• Increase # of individuals self directing by 1,245 by March 31, 2014
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