2005 CMS Systems Change Conference: Building Sustainable Systems for Independence

Sustaining Systems Change; Streamlining Access to Services; The Big Payoff: Employment Outcomes; How Are the Grants Helping Consumers and How Are Consumers Helping the Grants?; A Practical 101 Session on the Essentials of Housing Finance and Developing Affordable Housing Coordinated with Services; Building-In Quality: Measuring It and Improving It; What It Is and How to Do It; Supporting Family Caregivers; Facilitating Partnerships and Building Coalitions; Across Aging and Disability Service Networks; Building Relationships with Public Housing Agencies; How Complicated Can It Be? Enrollment Strategies; Creating A Multi-Program Web Site Through Collaboration; The Power of Automated Assessment Tools; Establishing Individual Budgets; Exploring Home and Community-Based Options for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances; Effective Cross Grant Collaboration and Coordination; Lessons Learned from Nursing Home Transition Programs; Identifying Policy Barriers to Self-Direction; Building Local Community Coalitions to Create and Sustain Successful Systems Change and More Inclusive Communities; Promoting Evidence-Based Practices in the Delivery of Mental Health Care; Feast or Food Fight: Policy Implications of the Medicaid Buy-In; Integrated Quality Management Systems: States’ Experience; Effective Emergency Back-Up Models for Consumers Who Self-Direct; Worker Recruitment and Retention Strategies; How Medicaid Can Support the Mental Health Recovery Model; Do Employment Services Support Self-Determination