Reports

This assessment is designed to help participants identify any barriers that prevent them from accessing or moving about their primary residence. The assessment aids in the development of goals related to their ability to perform their Activities of Daily Living and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living.

This functional assessment tool is designed to provide a user-friendly method to determine an applicant’s personal care assistance needs. The assessment helps to establish the individual monthly budget and identify the applicant’s goals.

This bibliography summarizes current thinking about developing core competencies for all direct care workers, regardless of the setting they work in. It includes recommendations from six state-level reports, two national studies, and the federal Retooling the Health Care Workforce for an Aging America Act.

This assessment is designed to determine the level of understanding that the participant has in terms of his/her disability and resulting functional impacts and any possible complications that may result. It is also intended to provide an opportunity to educate the participant on the medical aspects of his/her disability and identify opportunities for further education.

RWJF National Program Office on Cash & Counseling and the Minnesota DHS, had Paone & Associates conducted focus groups in 2007 to probe response to Minnesota’s consumer-directed care service option for EW recipients on managed care. The focus groups targeted managed care organizations (MCOs), care coordinators, and other organizations and individuals with experience in offering this service option to this population. This report offers results from those groups and recommendations for the state.

This high level systems map of Indiana’s disability and employment infrastructure gives a general overview of state agency programs and services. This includes statistics on each agency program, separated into Employment and Training Programs, Health Related Disability and Employment Supports, and Other Programs Involved with Individuals with Disabilities and Employment Supports. Also outlined are the steps taken, the activities, completion date and persons responsible for these outcomes.

A primary original intent of the Medicaid Infrastructure Grant program was to ensure that states could learn from each other as they pursued their individual employment initiatives. With this in mind, George Washington University released this report, outlining options for raising the unearned income limit for the Arkansas Medicaid Buy-In, with projections of increased enrollment. Also included is a separate report explaining the methodology.

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 study of Consumer Directed Care, Florida's Cash & Counseling Demonstration program for children, examines the ways in which consumer direction affects the cost of Medicaid personal care services, as well as the cost and use of other Medicaid services. Outcome measures were drawn from Medicaid claims data for 1,002 children for the first two years post-enrollment.

This report showcases the findings of qualitative research that was conducted in Arkansas. The objectives of the research included: providing and overview of CCDE, identifying ways to increase referrals to the IndependentChoices program, and identifying professionals to act as ambassadors to the project. Research and findings are identified and discussed.