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Purpose:
Inform health care, social service, workforce development and education professionals, families and youth about community supports for transition including Medicaid waivers and other funding sources, transportation, housing, personal care supports, and recreation.
One Hour Phone Call
Community Supports for Transition
Many Youth with Special Health Care Needs (YSHCN) are likely to require community supports to make a successful transition to adulthood including in-home supports and/or personal care services, employment, transportation, and recreation supports in order to remain healthy, active and productive. Join the HRTW National Resource Center, Champions for Inclusive Communities, and an outstanding panel of community service experts to learn about how to make connections and support the successful transition of YSHCN to all aspects of community living using the myriad of community resources and long term care waivers.
At the end of the call participants will be able to:
- Describe key elements of communities organized to support transition.
- Discuss Home and Community Based Waivers
- Identify ways HCB waivers and community supports can help young people find and maintain employment and be involved in their communities.
- Assist health care providers and families to prepare youth to access and use supports.
Presenters
- Diane Behl and Ginger Payant, Champions For Inclusive Communities www.championsinc.org (MCHB-funded national center designed to support communities in organizing services for families of children and youth with special health care needs), behld@eiri.usu.edu and ginger@eiri.usu.edu
- Jack Hillyard, MSW, Director of the Bureau of Individual Supports with the Office of Long Term Living in Pennsylvania, http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/About/OLTL/ (Formerly Director, MCHB-funded HRTW project in Iowa), hillyard3404@comcast.net
- Richard G. Luecking, EdD, President, TransCen, Inc. http://www.transcen.org/ (organization dedicated to improving educational and employment outcomes for people with disabilities with grants from MCHB, SSA, Dept of Education, and others), rluecking@transcen.org
Facilitator:
- Toni G. Wall, MPA - PI, HRTW National Resource Center www.hrtw.org; Director, Children with Special Health Needs Division of Family Health, Maine Department of Health & Human Services toni.g.wall@maine.gov
Speaker Contact Info and Bios
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