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Kentucky Launches Consumer Directed Option for People With Disabilities

June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report

Kentucky launched Consumer Directed Option, giving disabled Medicaid recipients choice and control over their personal assistance services, including hiring workers and purchasing assistive devices, through the Cash & Counseling national program.

Minnesota Focuses on Attracting Older Adults to Participant-Directed Services in Medicaid

June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report

Minnesota increased enrollment of frail older disabled Medicaid recipients in Consumer Directed Community Supports, giving them choice and control over their personal assistance services, through the Cash & Counseling national program.

New Mexico Gives Older and Other People With Disabilities Control and Choice Through Participant-Directed Services

June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report

New Mexico launched Mi Via (“my path,” “my way,” “my road”), giving disabled Medicaid recipients control over their personal assistance services, including hiring workers and buying assistive devices, through the Cash & Counseling national program.

Pennsylvania Confronts Challenges to Create Stronger Self-Directed Personal Assistance Services

June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report

Pennsylvania launched Services My Way, which gives some Medicaid recipients with disabilities choice and control over their personal assistance services through the Cash & Counseling national program.

Cash & Counseling

June 11, 2013 | Program Result Report

The Cash & Counseling program created a cost-effective model of participant-directed services to improve the health of frail older adults and other people with disabilities and contributed to national policy change on participant-directed services.

Organization Promotes Self-Determination for People with Disabilities Through Its Regional Affiliates

June 30, 2001 | Program Result Report

SABE fostered collaboration among representatives from its nine regional affiliates, allowing them to share lessons learned in promoting self-determination and in using self-determination as a principle to reform state policy.

Cash & Counseling

August 1, 2007 | Evaluation

This report summarizes the findings from five years of research by Mathematica Policy Research, on how each of the three demonstration states (Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey) implemented its program, and on how the programs have affected the consumers who participated, the consumers' paid and unpaid caregivers, and the costs to Medicaid.

Lessons Learned: Sustainability of Partners in Caregiving - The Adult Day Services Program

May 25, 2006 | Program Result Report

The report provides information on the three phases of the program and then describes the work of the Partners in Caregiving national program office in the post-RWJF funding period as it has achieved financial self-sufficiency.

Connecticut Self-Determination for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Pilot Takes Off with "Support Broker" for Mentally Retarded

January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report

The Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation implemented a pilot project to make changes to its service delivery system to enable persons with mental retardation to choose the services they receive and the setting in which they wish to live.

Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities

June 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities was designed to foster the development of consumer-directed home and community-based services for people of all ages with chronic disabilities.

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