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Oregon administrative rule establishing the standards for the Oregon Community Mental Health Housing Fund that was created with certain proceeds from the sale of a state facility. The fund will be used to create community housing arrangements for persons with serious mental illness.

Included here is the call for proposals for the 2004 demonstration of Cash & Counseling and three supporting teleconferences. These teleconferences discuss the requirements for the grant, as well as present past lessons and answer applicant's questions.

Presentation bt Jean Campbell at Oregon Real Choice grant conference in June 2004. Presentation looks at advantages and disadvantages of peer support programs moving to evidence based approaches.

This Website, while Wisconsin specific, offers a Health Insurance guidebook that others might wish to use as a model. It is likely to be helpful to Family2Family grantees

This site is designed to provide up to date information, resources and training materials for use by supports coordinators/service coordinators and their supervisors who are in the field of Mental Retardation/developmental disabilities in Pennsylvania.

More than 30 of the 101 Systems Change Grants that began in FY 2001 or FY 2002 have activities to improve the recruitment, retention, or quality of the direct service workforce. RTI International conducted phone interviews with the 20 FY 2001 grantees with workforce activities and conducted site visits with 7 of them to document their initiatives. This teleconference presentation will address a policy framework that identifies initiatives that appear promising to states.

The attached form is a copy of the North Carolina's assessment tool for the Community Alternatives Program for Disabled Adults program. There is also an example of Plan of Care form, AQUIP, provided.

This paper discusses the ethical/right relationship that must exsist between service systems and the people they serve and between the individuals in the service system and the people they serve. It provides a good underpinning for work in person-centered planning.

This paper explores the essential relationships that must exist if people are to take precedence over systems. It considers bureaucracy and its relationship to the people it purports to serve. This article serves as a nice underpinning for work on person-centered planning.

This is the keynote presentation given by Michael Kendrick at The Promise of Opportunity conference in Albany, NY. The presentation includes a discussion of person-centered planning vs. person-centeredness. It also looks at the relationships and values that must be present if people are to be at the heart of social service systems.