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2. What are Long-Term Support Systems?. Individuals, public and private agencies that deliver, oversee, screen for, or pay for services for seniors, children and adults with disabilities who seek some type of assistance with activities of their daily lives.. 3. Long Term Support Systems in Vir
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1. Your Life, Your Choice, Your Home!
WHAT VIRGINIA’S LONG TERM SUPPORT SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION MEANS FOR YOU
2. 2 What are Long-Term Support Systems?
Individuals, public and private agencies that deliver, oversee, screen for, or pay for services for seniors, children and adults with disabilities who seek some type of assistance with activities of their daily lives.
3. 3 Long Term Support Systemsin Virginia Include…. Families
Friends and neighbors
The Medicaid program
Services and institutions for individuals with mental health issues
Services and institutions for individuals with intellectual disabilities (formerly mental retardation)
Services and institutions for seniors
Social services
Health services
Hospitals
Nursing facilities
Assisted living facilities
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Adult Foster Care
4. 4 Why Transformation? TODAY….
Long term support systems are fragmented
Planning, management and administration of related activities are not coordinated as well as they could be
Housing and long term support agencies plan and deliver services in different systems
Modern methods for gathering data are limited
Some people have no services at all, and others have less than they may need
The number of Virginians over 60 will double by 2030
5. 5 Why Are We Ready Now? Three key initiatives:
Systems Transformation Grant
Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration
State Long-Term Support Profile Tool Grant (to measure improvements in quality of long term supports over time)
6. 6 Why Should I Care? You may know someone using long term supports right now who is not happy with their life, their choices, or their living situation.
You may work in the long term support system and experience frustration in assisting people to get what they need.
You, your family members and your friends may need long term supports some time in the future.
7. 7 OK, So What Will This Transformation Mean for Me? Effective this summer:
Instant access to comprehensive information about supports
More choices for community living
New Medicaid “waiver” services to support you in your community if you qualify
8. 8 OK, So What Will This Transformation Mean for Me? In the future:
Planning based on what you want and need rather than what happens to be available
Faster access to supports you want and need
More housing and transportation choices
No more “agency hopping”
9. 9 Information Virginia Easy Access: One website you can visit to get information about any supports you might need including:
Customized searches through VirginiaNavigator for supports near you
E-mail support by 2-1-1 VIRGINIA
10. 10 Information
Rather get information by phone?
Call 2-1-1 Virginia: A call specialist will assist you by telephone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
11. 11 Faster Access to SupportsThrough Development of… An on-line Medicaid application
Streamlined processing of applications for certain Medicaid “waivers”
An on-line form that you can fill out to tell you if you might be eligible for certain supports
12. 12 No More “Agency Hopping” Local agencies are currently joining together in 11 “No Wrong Door” implementation sites to improve your experience in obtaining and providing long term supports
Goal is a network of No Wrong Door resource providers statewide by 2010
13. 13 No More “Agency Hopping” The vision:
A comprehensive network of aging and disability service providers that collaborate and plan together
Electronic sharing of information with your permission to avoid your having to fill out multiple applications for supports at multiple agencies
14. 14 Planning Based on Individual Needs and Preferences All systems will put individuals at the center of planning for long term supports.
Individuals will control more of the services and supports they use.
Family, friends and neighbors can play a more active role supporting the people they care about.
15. 15 More Choices for Community Living If you live in a nursing home, Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) or long stay hospital, you will have more options for moving to the community if that is your choice.
If you currently use waiver services in the community, you will be able to access new waiver services that you need.
16. 16 New Medicaid Waiver ServicesUnder “Money Follows the Person” Transition Services – a one-time, life-time maximum $5,000 benefit for individuals transitioning from institutions to the community for up-front household expenses
Transition Coordination - responsible for supporting the individual with the activities associated with transitioning
Local government agencies, private non-profit 501(c)(3)s and fiscal services agencies
Same rate as MR case management
Consumer-Directed Supported Employment - consumer-directed option for individual supported employment services
17. 17 Services Added to Medicaid WaiversUnder “Money Follows the Person” Elderly and Disabled with Consumer Direction (EDCD)
Environmental Modifications
Assistive Technology
Transition Coordination
Transition Services
Technology Assisted (TECH)
Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)
Transition Services
HIV/AIDS (AIDS)
Environmental Modifications
Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)
Assistive Technology
Transition Services
18. 18 Services Added to Medicaid Waivers Under “Money Follows the Person” Individual and Family Developmental Disabilities Services (DD)
Consumer Directed Supported Employment
Transition Services
Mental Retardation (MR)
Consumer Directed Supported Employment
Transition Services
Day Support (DS)
Consumer Directed Supported Employment
19. 19 Additional “Money Follows the Person” Services Supplemental home modifications
Rent to cover time between signing a lease and moving in after home modifications are completed
24-hours-per-day, 365-days-per-year emergency back up service provided by 2-1-1 VIRGINIA for the first 12 months after someone moves back into the community
20. 20 Closing theHousing Gap Housing, transportation and long term support stakeholders formed a Task Force
Developed an Annual Housing and Transportation Action Plan to increase options for seniors and people with disabilities in September
21. 21 Closing theHousing Gap Annual Housing and Transportation Action Plan addresses ways to:
Create affordable housing
Make accessible transportation available
Connect housing and transportation
Develop lasting partnerships among housing stakeholders and human services system stakeholders
22. 22 Closing theHousing Gap 16 Centers for Independent Living are working with local housing and human service agencies to:
Address the housing needs of individuals with disabilities and seniors
Assure that these needs are incorporated into housing planning
Track related policy changes
23. 23 Keys to Success Working hand in hand—state and local agencies, private and public providers, advocates, people who currently use long term supports, and families
A common vision and goals
A passionate belief that we can do better
24. 24 Some Questions You Might Have Do I really have choices about my supports?
Yes, you do.
Do I have a right to choose whether I live in an institution or in the community?
Yes, you do.
Do providers need to honor my choices?
Yes, they do.
25. 25 More QuestionsYou Might Have Will transformation create more community living options, while keeping institutional living options?
Yes, it will.
Will people have more opportunities to use their job skills in institutions and in community systems as a result of transformation?
Yes, they will.
Will there be safeguards for people who want to live in the community?
Yes, there will.
26. 26 After all, it’s …YOUR life
…YOUR choice
…YOUR home!
27. 27 Where Can I Get MoreInformation? Kristin Burhop
SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION GRANT Project Director
(804) 692-2540
kristin.burhop@governor.virginia.gov
Jason Rachel
MONEY FOLLOWS THE PERSON Project Director
(804) 225-2984
mfp@dmas.virginia.gov
http://www.olmsteadva.com/mfp/
Karen Lawson
Policy & Research Manager (Overseeing the STATE PROFILE TOOL Development)
(804) 225-2364
karen.lawson@dmas.virginia.gov