Consumer/Participant Direction

Standards required of Arkansas' fiscal management contractor. Includes descriptions of program deliverables and performance indicators.

Titled “Now You Have a Choice in Personal Care”, this tri-fold brochure was designed to be mailed without an envelope. The handout offers a program overview and provides a Request for Additional Information form.

This flowchart depicts the enrollment process for the IndependentChoices program in Arkansas.

Forms for Arkansas' IndependentChoices program. Source(s): Other, State Grantee

Includes a Backup Worker form, a Changing/Adding a Worker form, and a Worker Address and Phone Number form. In addition, there is an Employment Application and Personal Care Assistant Agreement form available.

An excel spreadsheet used to track a participant's hours of personal care and other expenditures for their monthly allowance.

Includes a self-assessment, self-assessment of personal care needs, and personal care assessment tools.

This article reviews the development of empowerment-based practice in social work. The article discusses the effect that the Cash & Counseling program has on empowerment, specifically for the elderly.

This presentation outlines the debate over hiring family caregivers in the Cash & Counseling program. A two-state case study is discussed and results are presented.

This report’s results suggest that surrogates can adequately represent consumer's views about satisfaction with personal assistance, and therefore provide encouragement to continue investigation of the utility of surrogate representatives. The study results also replicate previous findings that persons with cognitive impairments and persons with severe disabilities are able to express their preferences for everyday matters.