RELATED RESOURCES
What It Is
Supports and services means accessing and controlling supports and services to support a preferred lifestyle. In order to live a preferred lifestyle, most people with disabilities need supports and services, as well as funding to pay for those services (for information on accessing and controlling funding see link here ).
What We're Doing
We concentrate on the following components of marshalling and controlling supports and services:
- Personal staff and housemates – information about recruiting, hiring, training, scheduling and paying personal staff and housemates.
- Fiscal intermediary – information about working with a fiscal intermediary, whose responsibility it is to perform the payroll and financial functions on behalf of the person with a disability.
- Support brokers – information about working with a support broker, someone who works directly for the individual with a disability to do whatever the person needs and hires him or her to do. This might include facilitating person-centered planning meetings, helping with hiring and supervising staff, or making connections in the community.
- Housing – information about choosing appropriate housing.
- Employment supports – information about supporting people with disabilities to have meaningful, economically sustaining jobs. For more detailed information on employment supports see the employment section of the website.
- Supports for community integration – information about facilitating friendships and community participation.
- Positive Behavior Supports - information about providing positive behavior supports so that people with disabilities and challenging behavior can participate in the community. (link to PBS)
APSE is dedicated to improving integrated employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Beste Buddies is a college and university-based program that provides opportunities for one-on-one friendships and integrated employment for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
The Center for Housing and New Community Economics (CHANCE) is dedicated to improving and increasing access to integrated, affordable, and accessible housing.
Inclusion Press is a publisher devoted to enhancing opportunities for children and adults with disabilities for community inclusion.
This site is sponsored by Maryland's New Directors Medicaid Waiver program and is a project of TASH.
The National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce is a national on-line library for people in search of solutions to direct-care staffing in long-term care.
Opening Doors is a housing initiative that provides information and technical assistance on affordable housing for people with disabilities and their families and service providers.
This site, sponsored by The Arc, matches assisted living, independent living, or group home vacancies with people seeking a new arrangement.
The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports and Job Retention studies supports that are most effective to assist people with disabilities maintain employment and advance their careers.
The Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) is a national non-profit organization that works to achieve positive outcomes on behalf of people with disabilities, people who are homeless, and people with other special needs by providing state-of-the-art information, capacity building, and technical expertise to organizations and policymakers in the areas of mental health, substance abuse, human services, and affordable housing.
Training Resource Network offers training on job development and supported employment