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2006
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on policy development issues, and is responsible for major activities in the areas of legislative and budget development, strategic planning, policy research and evaluation, and economic analysis. ASPE develops or reviews issues from the viewpoint of the Secretary, providing a perspective that is broader in scope than the specific focus of the various operating agencies. ASPE also works closely with the HHS operating divisions. It assists these agencies in developing policies, and planning policy research, evaluation and data collection within broad HHS and administration initiatives. ASPE often serves a coordinating role for crosscutting policy and administrative activities.
A passport for improving services to individuals with developmental disabilities
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 1998
An examination of service delivery models implemented in different cultural settings can be informative and enriching. This article draws together the findings of a comparative review of two service delivery systems with almost identical responsibilities for the coordination of services to individuals with developmental disabilities. The most unique aspect of comparing these two service systems is the location of the two entities: Southwark Consortium is based within the London borough of Southwark of the United Kingdom (UK); and, Denver Options, Inc. is located in the City and County of Denver in the United States of America (USA). Despite an ocean in between them, the two organizations have learned from each other and will continue to follow each other's progress, and selectively test each other's new ideas and approaches.
2017
The Residential Information Systems Project (RISP) at the University of Minnesota has reported the living arrangements of long-term supports and services (LTSS) recipients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) since 1977. It has fielded annual surveys of state IDD agencies since 1988 when the project was first funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD, formerly ADD). Between 1977 and 2015, the locus of Medicaid-funded LTSS for people with IDD shifted from large stateoperated IDD institutions to services provided to people living in their own homes, with a family member, or in another home and community based setting. The proportion of Medicaid Waiver recipients with IDD living in the home of a family member first exceeded 50% in FY 2011. Acknowledging the increased role of families in supporting people with IDD receiving publicly funded LTSS, the Administration on Community Living funded an additional Data Project of National Significance to describe people living in homes of their own or with family members. The Supporting Individuals and Families Information Systems Project (FISP) began in October 2011 and concluded September 2017. It was a partnership between the University of Minnesota, the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) and Human Services Research Institute (HSRI). Through the combined efforts of the RISP and FISP projects, we conducted several special studies on supports for families, expanded the annual survey of state IDD directors to include more information about people living with family members or in their own home, updated our data collection and dissemination platforms, and created several new products targeting families and family advocates. The last FISP project report (for FY 2014) was published at the end of calendar 2016. Knowing that the FISP project was ending, we spent the last year merging the FISP and RISP project activities and products. We expanded this FY 2015 RISP report to incorporate key FISP findings. We modified or reordered several tables and figures and shortened the annual survey of Public Residential Facilities. We also moved the detailed annual state level data on Medicaid ICF/IID and Medicaid Waiver recipients and expenditures from the RISP report to the Chart Gallery section of the RISP.umn.edu website.
Challenges, and Opportunities for Improvement First Interim Process and Case Manager
1999
We are grateful to the many individuals who contributed to the completion of this draft report. Our special thanks go to the coordinators and other key staff in the four research sites for their help in arranging the sites visits and ensuring that we were able to collect the information we needed--Vicki Blome from Scottsbluff, Marilyn Czerwinski from Omaha, Dianna Eggli from Columbus, and Linda Thomsen from Lincoln. Their helpfulness and pleasant dispositions made our work that much easier. Moreover, as part of the site visit process, many administrators and staff willingly took time from their very busy schedules to meet with us and reflect on program operations and implementation issues related to welfare reform. We are grateful for their observations and insights. The evaluation also benefited from support and guidance from several NHHS Central Office staff. We would like to thank Marv Kanne, the evaluation’s project officer, and Dan Cillessen, Administrator of Economic Assistanc...
2003
characteristics of and service use by persons with MR/DD living in their own homes or with family members. Here we reexamine employment services and status, personal supports used and needed, professional and mental health services, previous longterm care services, transportation services, preventative health care, and waiting for services. The new component in this Brief is an examination of how service use and needs vary by age (for persons 18-35 years versus persons 36 years and older), gender, and disability group (persons with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities [ID/DD] versus persons with one or more substantial functional limitations who do not meet the criteria of having ID/DD). This Brief uses a series of logistic regressions to examine how the services and support needs vary by age, gender, and disability group after controlling for overall health status, race, and economic status.
Medicaid Services for Persons with Mental Retardation and Related Conditions. Project Report 27
1989
This report examines policy-related trends and projections in the use of variour Medicaid-funded care services for persons with mental retardation and related conditions, and identifies factors Influencing these trenda nationally and in the various states. The examination is based on three sets of research activities: analyses of databases on residential services for persons with mental retardation; a survey of all state mental retardation/developmental disabilities (MR/DO) agencies; and case studies of IC states. Sections of th report examine: (1) the mission and commitments of state MR/DD agencies as they themselves identify them; (2) past, present, and projected patterns of residential services in the nation and in the various states, focusing on general trends and contrebuting factors in long-term care service provision, irrespective of the role of Medicaid; (3) past, present, and projected utilization of Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded, with states' considerations in weighing costs and benefits to themselves and service consumers of the various Medicaid ,Dp1-.1nms; (4) status of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services programs wethan the different states and state perceptians of program strengths and limitations; (5) s.:_atus of persons with mental retardation in nursing homes and the implications of Public Law STATE OF FLORIDA