Wages and Benefits

This functional assessment tool is designed to provide a user-friendly method to determine an applicant’s personal care assistance needs. The assessment helps to establish the individual monthly budget and identify the applicant’s goals.

This bibliography summarizes current thinking about developing core competencies for all direct care workers, regardless of the setting they work in. It includes recommendations from six state-level reports, two national studies, and the federal Retooling the Health Care Workforce for an Aging America Act.

This assessment is designed to determine the level of understanding that the participant has in terms of his/her disability and resulting functional impacts and any possible complications that may result. It is also intended to provide an opportunity to educate the participant on the medical aspects of his/her disability and identify opportunities for further education.

Rhode Island’s Quick Start Guide is designed to give participants an overview of the PersonalChoice program and their roles and responsibilities. The guide includes information on service and spending plans, communication tips, and information about working with PersonalChoice support agencies.

The three presentations provided here were part of the 2007 Government and Vendor Fiscal/Employer Agent Workshop. The presentations focus on current challenges and promising practices related to the provision of workers’ compensation insurance for Massachusetts, Illinois, and New Mexico programs.

This report describes the design and implementation of IndependentChoices, Arkansas' model of Cash & Counseling. Lessons learned in Arkansas are discussed, and cover topics including outreach and enrollment, program features, counseling and fiscal services and program structure.

Michigan has developed this information to clarify the model of Agency with Choice in their states. Agency with Choice is one model for supporting individuals in the MI Choice Waiver who are aged or have disabilities.

This presentation was part of the 2008 Home and Community Based Services conference in Boston, MA. The presentation details a toolkit available to address provider resistance.

This handbook explains the Consumer Choices Option available in Iowa. It explains the process of creating quality support services. The handbook talks about how you can have choices in your life-choices about where you live, where you work, and who you can count on for support.

Presented at the Gerontological Society of America's 54th Annual Scientific Meeting, this presentation includes detailed stories of consumers' experiences with the cash option.