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New Community Opportunities Center at ILRU Presents…

New Community Opportunities from the Affordable Care Act

A National Teleconference & Webinar

March 22, 2011

Presenter:

Suzanne CrispSuzanne Crispsuzanne.crisp@bc.edu

New Community Opportunities Center at ILRU2

New Community Opportunities Center at ILRU Presents…

New Community Opportunities from the Affordable Care Act

A National Teleconference & Webinar

March 22, 2011

Presenter:

Suzanne CrispSuzanne Crispsuzanne.crisp@bc.edu

Learning Objectives

• Improve service availability• Create resource development opportunities

for CILs• Identify existing funding opportunities• Present new opportunities Committee• Accessing opportunities

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Existing Opportunities

• Money Follows the Person• Aging and Adult Resource Centers• Supporting Participant Direction• Veterans Directed Home and Community

Based Services

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The Affordable Care Act

• Incentives for high performance• Boosts options to shift settings

– Changes in policy– Enhanced funding

• Acknowledges independent living• Recognizes family/friend support roles

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Community First Choice Option

• Provides community-based attendant services and supports

• Increases Federal support by 6 % points• Must maintain fiscal year expenditures with

personal care • Assistance with activities of daily living• Income 150% of poverty level or 300% of

SSI• Defines community setting• Presents core assessment criteria

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Community First Choice Option

• Person centered planning• Promotes participant direction

– Agency model– Self-directed model with service budget

• Direct cash option• Flexible individual budget

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Questions and Answers

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Community Living Assistance Services and Supports

• National voluntary insurance program• Allows individuals to maintain personal and

financial independence• Alleviates burden on family support system• Provides funding mechanisms to support

personal choice• Promotes independent living in community

setting• Requires a CLASS Independence Advisory Council• Provides cash benefit and individual budget• Utilizes a Life Independence Account

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Support Services

• Assessment of need• Counseling to advice and assist • Develop spending plan• Quality oversight • Management of the Life Independence

Account

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Potential Role for CILs• Serve on Advisory Council• Provide direct transition services• Conduct independent assessments• Conduct training on the independent living

movement• Manage financial management services• Provide information and assistance – counseling • Conduct participant training• Maintain worker registry• Provide worker training

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State Rebalancing Incentive Payments

• From 10/1/11 to 9/30/15• Depends on current expenditure balance• Establish goals • May obtain 5% or 2% enhanced funding

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Other Opportunities

• Expansion of Spousal Impoverishment provisions

• Stronger emphasis on transitioning• Authentic participation • Opportunity for independent health care

workers to have health insurance• Improve coordination with Older Americans

Act• Sustain ADRC

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Questions and Answers

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Wrap Up and Evaluation

• Please complete the evaluation of this program by clicking here:

https://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/12291g48f60

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New Community OpportunitiesThis webinar is presented by New Community Opportunities, a national training and technical assistance program of Independent Living Research Utilization. This webinar was organized and facilitated by the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL). Support for development of this presentation was provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration under grant number H400B100003. No official endorsement of the Department of Education should be inferred. Permission is granted for duplication of any portion of this slide presentation, providing that the following credit is given to the project: Developed as part of the New Community Opportunities program at ILRU.

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