Consumer/Participant Direction

Minnesota has an extensive media kit on their website about Consumer Directed Community Supports. The items in the media kit offers you some easy, ready-to-go materials in printed and electronic formats to use in promoting the consumer directed community supports service option among consumers, partnering organizations, and others. Materials include key talking points, a news release, a postcard, a kiosk card, a short quiz, and a brief description of CDCS services.

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.

This video features overview information and consumer stories for Minnesota's Consumer Directed Community Supports program. The video is broken into different segments so that you can easily view the information you are looking for.

This technical advisory includes a description of the choice voucher system and prototypes for a Fiscal Intermediary Agreement, a Self-Determination Agreement, an Employment Agreement, a Purchase of Service Agreement and a Medicaid Provider Agreement.

This document was produced to outline self determination principals for the MI Choice waiver system. Four principles are defined here: Freedom, authority, support and responsibility.

This survey was developed for Michigan's Self Determination in Long Term Care program. The survey includes questions on fiscal services, hiring workers and enrollment.

Self Determination in Long Term Care (SDLTC) is a MI Choice waiver program option. The following forms are used for this program: Budget worksheet, Disenrollment form, Right to Hire form, Right to Hire with Driving Record, Job description form for a PCA/HHA, and Backup Worker form.

Two presentations are included here: "It is so Ordered: Modernizing Michigan Medicaid Long Term Care" and "Principles and Practices of Person-Centered Planning: Detroit Area Agency on Aging".

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 Organizational Readiness Structure was developed for the Self Determination in Long Term Care program. It includes staff, workforce, participant, and quality components.