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The mission of the Maine Personal Assistance Services Association is to build recognition and opportunity for the direct care, direct support, and personal assistance workforce through education, professional development, and public awareness. The website offers a list of upcoming events, a newsletter, and other resources.

The Muskie School of Public Service maintains this database as a public source of information on quality measures that have been developed for home and community based services. You may search this database in a number of ways to find indicators of interest. <br>*Search the quality indicator database by HCBS quality domains, age groups, populations, and data sources <br>*Browse the quality indicator database by quality indicator developer <br>*Browse quality-related surveys by developer

Moving out on your own is a big decision. There are so many issues to decide. Where to live? Who to live with? How to spend your money? In order to consent to living in a place of their own, it may be helpful for consumers to know about safety. This paper helps to create a safety plan after completing the safety checklist

This is an example of a personal support and safety plan. This document can be used with clients to determine what they hope to accomplish, design a people map and outline important and positive characteristics about themselves. The plan then focuses on support and what others need to know to provide assistance. Lastly, the plan address what is happening in life (ups and downs) and forms an action plan.

This paper subtitled: A Look at Federal, State and Public Systems as Sources of Cash-Outs and Other Fiscal Expansion Opportunities, examines promising interconnections between the concepts of recovery, self-determination, and self-directed care. It reviews the five principles of self-direction and explores the major systems that can serve as sources of cash-out funding. The paper concludes with a series of recommendations for next steps in adopting this mental health care financing mechanism.

The question—What can we count on to make and keep people safe?— frames an important perspective on the continuing work of building communities that offer people with developmental disabilities full and dignified lives. This report subtitled, Perspectives on Creating Effective Safeguards for People with Developmental Disabilities has recently been re-released. WRead on to see what strategies offer ways to constructively engage people.

The Community Living Exchange Collaborative At ILRU has prepared this summary notes from the National Summit on Self-Determination and Cognitive Disabilities held on April 26-28, 2004. The notes provide an overview of how to: plan for risk, manage risk, optimizing independent functioning, organizing community, natural and peer supports. Each subject is broken into the tools needed, changes needed, solutions, and training needed.

Senior LinkAge Line is a free telephone information and assistance service which makes it easy for older adults and their families to find community services. With a single call, families can find particular or get help evaluating the situation and to determine what kind of service might be helpful. The ADRC grant project has shared their survey tools for both the Call Center and One-on-One Assistance.

An analysis of the status of older Americans gleaned from a variety of federal sources covers 37 key indicators divided into five subject areas: population, economics, health status, health risks and behaviors, and health care. The report includes data on population, economics, health status, health risks and behaviors, and health care. The data are arrayed in charts and tables with accompanying narrative.

To assist states in preparing for the challenges and opportunities they will face as baby-boomers age, the National Governors Association's Center for Best Practice's (NGA Center) published this report designed to identify current trends and future directions, and to assist state policymakers in creating programs and policies that respond to need. This data book provides information on demographic shifts, health care concerns, & long term care workforce shortages.