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Navigating the System

Life is complicated; systems supporting people with developmental disabilities are even more complex. This guidebook is intended to help understand the many systems that may be encountered as a self advocate or someone involved in the life of an individual with a developmental disability. Like a car manual; some of this information may never be needed but if something happens the information is available. Other state programs can use this guidebook as a template to create a similar manual.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51804

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Planning For Your Discharge: A Checklist for Patients and Caregivers Preparing to Leave a Hospital, Nursing Home, or Other Health Care Setting

Transitioning out of a care facility can be a challenging time for patients and their caregivers. This checklist will help these people and their support workers plan ahead of the discharge to ensure everyone involved understands the patient’s needs and can avoid any interruption in care. The resource also includes instructions and contact information for finding appropriate support from local, state, and federal agencies.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51735

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Find, Choose, and Keep Great Direct Support Professionals – Toolkit

These kits provide strategic guidance and tools such as checklists and worksheets to help people recruit and retain quality direct support professionals. One version is designed for individuals with disabilities and the other is for their families and support team members. A hard copy with interactive CD is available at the Illinois Direct Support Professional Workforce Initiative website.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51595

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Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) Readiness Assessment

This assessment is designed to assist organizations in evaluating their readiness to perform key functions of ADRCs. The online version provides users with immediate feedback and links to resources to help build needed capacity. Functional areas measured include: organization and governance; personnel and training; service delivery and operations; outreach and marketing; IT; partnerships; and evaluation and monitoring.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51581

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Affordable Assisted Living and Community Based Care: An Interactive Feasibility Tool

Use this step-by-step feasibility analysis guide and spreadsheet model to determine the financial viability of proposed assisted living facilities. This tool provides an integrated framework to analyze a myriad of co-located services is built in to linked development and operation worksheets, automatically populates cells and provides information on financial feasibility of facility development.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51549

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Peer Support Training Manual - Ohio Advocates for Mental Health

This collection of materials comprises a short course for consumers to further peer support among individuals, to gain skills for use as Peer Support Specialists, to advance the use of warm lines and partnering activities, and to form and sustain peer support groups. The expectation is that people giving and taking this course will have heightened awareness of effective communication skills and resources to assist them as they provide peer support.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51488

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Since You Care: Hiring An Independent Caregiver

This consumer guide from MetLife is one in a series of guides called "Since You Care" done in cooperation with the National Alliance for Caregiving. It provides information for family caregivers about locating potential home care aides, screening applications, conducting interviews, running background checks and administering payroll, including social security and other taxes. It also provides helpful resources, including books, publications, websites and a sample contract.

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51483

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