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2007 - 2011 PA Developmental Disabilities State Plan
Vision Statement
We envision a Commonwealth comprised of inclusive communities where all people with disabilities are valued and thrive.
Mission Statement
The Council engages in advocacy, systems change and capacity
building for people with disabilities and their families in order to:
- Support people with disabilities in taking control
of their own lives
- Ensure access to goods, services and supports
- Build inclusive communities
- Pursue a cross disability agenda
- Change negative societal attitudes toward people with disabilities
The following Plan Announcement outlines the objectives which grew
out of this intensive planning process. In it you will find the
Objective Statements, along with planned allocations and proposed
numbers of projects in each area. A Request for Proposals book for
these Objectives will be issued in September 2006 which will cover a
number of the objectives outlined. This book will provide prospective
bidders with complete information on how to apply for Council funding,
detailed explanations of each of the objectives and activities required
and any special requirements for bidders to consider. Copies will be
available in print, alternate formats and on line at www.paddc.org. A second Request for Proposals book will be issued in Spring of 2008 covering the remaining objectives for this plan.
Objectives
Abuse Identification and Reporting
Building Inclusive Recreational Opportunities
Council Archives
Cultural Competence Standards
Accessible Dental Services
Educational Rights
Employment in Trades Professions
Entrepreneurship
First Responders Disability Awareness
Grassroots Advocacy Grants Program
Grassroots Disability Group Support and Consultation
Leadership Training
Minority Community Grants
Promoting Inclusion in High Schools
Recruitment and Retention
Self Advocacy Support
Transition: Community of Choice
Transition: School to Adult Life
Transportation to and from Work
Objectives
Access to Individual Supports within the Home
Advocacy for Accessible Housing
Communication/Publication
Community Accessibility
Disability Ombudsman in the Criminal Justice System
Faith Community Inclusion
Health Law Awareness
Incentives for Community Employment
Inclusive Child Care
Individualized Access to Service/Support Systems for People with Multiple Developmental Disability Needs
Legal Advocacy
Measuring Outcomes for Children
Meeting Coordination
Personal Support Services for Workers with Disabilities
Policy Information Exchange
Self Directed Suppor Corporations
Voting
In-House Activities
Request For Proposals to be issued in September 2006
Abuse Identification and Reporting
To develop a curriculum to help people with disabilities
prevent, identify, report and manage physical, psychological,
verbal/emotional and sexual abuse. To pilot the curriculum, and to
distribute it to groups who will use it on an ongoing basis. Planned
Allocation: One Project @ $50,000 per year for 5 years.
Building Inclusive Recreational Opportunities
To build relationships, friendships and team spirit through
inclusive leisure time activities. Planned Allocation: Three Projects
@ $25,000 each per year for three years.
Council Archives
To identify, collect, catalog and make available a bibliography
and acquisition information for Council and Grantee
publications/products over the past 15 years. Planned Allocation: One
Project @ $40,000 for Eighteen Months.
Cultural Competence Standards
To implement standards of cultural competence within all
projects funded by the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities
Council. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $75,000 per year for five
years.
Accessible Dental Services
To identify barriers to accessing quality dental care for people
with developmental disabilities and promote promising strategies for
systemic change ensuring access to affordable, equitable services.
Planned Allocation: One project @ $60,000 per year for 3 years.
Educational Rights
To provide information, training and mentoring to families of
children with developmental disabilities regarding educational rights.
Planned Allocation: Year One: $40,000 - Years Two and Three: $75,000
for each year.
Employment in Trades Professions
To advocate for the creation, promotion and maintenance of
living wage employment in industrial occupations for individuals with
developmental disabilities. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $50,000
per year three years
Entrepreneurship
To develop a statewide network that creates, promotes and
maintains opportunities for entrepreneurship for individuals with
developmental disabilities. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $60,000
per year five years
First Responders Disability Awareness
To establish a training/education program on disability
awareness for first responders to utilize during a potential crisis
intervention situation. Planned Allocation: One project @ $96,000 per
year for 4 years.
Grassroots Advocacy Grants Program
To support the ability of people with developmental disabilities
and their families to plan and advocate at the grassroots level.
Planned Allocation: Approximately 10 Grassroots advocacy grants each
year for a maximum amount of $10,000 each.
Grassroots Disability Group Support and Coordination
To fund a statewide grassroots advocacy training and technical
assistance project that will provide information dissemination,
coalition building, networking coordination, training, technical
assistance, and consultation to people with disabilities, parents,
caregivers, and allies of people with developmental disabilities of all
ages so that they may increase their capacity to create positive
change within their communities and across Pennsylvania. Planned
Allocation: One Project at $200,000 per year for five years.
Leadership Training
To equip individuals with developmental disabilities to advocate
for themselves, their communities and the issues that affect them.
Planned Allocation: One project @ $95,000 per year for five years.
Minority Community Grants
To create, promote, and
enhance the opportunities for organizations led by or serving minority
communities to grow and thrive. Planned Allocation: Approximately
five grants per year will be awarded up to a maximum of $10,000 for a
term of up to eighteen (18) months.
Promoting Inclusion in High Schools
To promote the integration
of high school students with developmental disabilities in high school
recreation programs and activities. Planned Allocation: One Project @
$60,000 per year for three years.
Recruitment and Retention
Develop and present, on behalf of the Council, one or more cross
disabilities, cross systems conferences or colloquia identifying best
practice in the recruitment and retention of direct support
professionals. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $58,000 for one year.
Self Advocacy Support
To support individuals with
developmental disabilities as they advocate for themselves, their
communities and the issues that affect them. Planned Allocation: One
project @ $75,000 per year for five years.
Transition: Community of Choice
To increase and support
awareness of housing transition options and supports to enhance quality
life choices for youth with disabilities. Planned Allocation: One
project @ $75,000 per year for five years.
Transition: School to Adult Life
To develop a replicable
approach to transition to adult life and educate stakeholders on the
need for systemic change in support of improving the transition from
school to adult life outcomes. Planned Allocation: Two projects @
$100,000 each per year for 5 years.
Transportation to and from Work
To conduct
research to identify the barriers lack of transportation poses to
individuals with developmental disabilities obtaining and maintaining
living-wage employment. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $65,000 per
year for three years.
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Request For Proposals to be issued in Spring 2008
Access to Individual Supports within the Home
To expand and improve the
range of supports available to people with disabilities from personal
assistants and other direct care professionals. Planned Allocation:
One Project @ $50,000 per year for three years.
Advocacy for Accessible Housing
To advocate for affordable,
accessible housing in the public and private sectors, rented or
purchased. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $75,000 per year for
three years.
Communication/ Publications
To assist the Council in
sharing information regarding its works, the work of its grantees and
current issues of importance to the disability community in
Pennsylvania. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $110,000 per year for
three years.
Community Accessibility
To utilize community
building strategies to make communities more physically accessible,
alternative formats, educating authorities to use alternate accessible
places for community meetings, town hall meetings, etc. Planned
Allocation: One Project @ $80,000 per year for three years.
Disability Ombudsman in the Criminal Justice System
To increase awareness in
the criminal justice system that provides knowledge and understanding
of available options for incarcerated people with disabilities and
promote the elimination of segregated units which foster an unfair
level of confinement. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $75,000 per
year for three years.
Faith Community Inclusion
To focus on seminaries,
rabbinical schools, and other places where church leadership receive
their training and education to explore the image and ideas of where
all people, particularly those with disabilities, fit into their
doctrine, teachings and ministries. Planned Allocation: One Project
@ $90,000 per year for three years.
Health Law Awareness
To promote access to a full
range of medical services and supports options through the education of
Pennsylvanians with developmental disabilities and monitoring statewide
and national managed health care reform initiatives. Planned
Allocation: One Project @ $75,000 per year for three years.
Incentives for Community Employment
To conduct research on and
advocate for the creation, promotion and maintenance of living wage
employment in non-segregated settings for workers with developmental
disabilities. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $75,000 per year for
three years.
Inclusive Child Care
To establish a range of
inclusive, flexible child care options for children with developmental
disabilities and their families that foster and promote inclusive
practices in community child care services. Planned Allocation: One
Project @ $75,000 per year for three years.
Individualized Access to Service/Support Systems for People with Multiple Developmental Disability Needs
To provide training and
education with regard to the mental health needs of people with
developmental disabilities accessing the mental health and mental
retardation systems. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $50,000 per
year for three years.
Legal Advocacy
To support the pursuit of
formal protections for people of all ages with developmental
disabilities in Pennsylvania through legislative, administrative and
judicial means. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $140,000 per year
for three years.
Measuring Outcomes for Children
To determine what are the
valued outcomes that families desire for their young children with
developmental disabilities and document the factors that contribute to
achieving these outcomes. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $50,000
per year for three years.
Meeting Coordination
To support and fund a
variety of meetings among its members, people with developmental
disabilities and other Pennsylvanians for the purpose of enhancing the
independence, productivity, integration and inclusion of people with
disabilities in all aspects of community life. Planned Allocation:
One Project @ $80,000 per year for three years.
Personal Support Services for Workers with Disabilities
To conduct research on
alternative funding mechanisms and opportunities for advocacy in order
to provide attendant supports for workers with developmental
disabilities. Planned Allocation: One Project @ $60,000 per year for
three years.
Policy Information Exchange
To educate the Council, the
general public and Pennsylvanians with disabilities and their families
regarding public policy issues and to increase the exchange of
information between the Council and federal, state and local officials.
Planned Allocation: One Project @ $75,000 per year for three years.
Self Directed Support Corporations
To support the expansion of
the self directed support corporation model of service delivery
throughout the Commonwealth. Planned Allocation: One Project @
$30,000 per year for two years.
Voting
To support a cross
disability voter coalition addressing barriers electoral participation
by people with disabilities. Planned Allocation: One project @
$25,000 for five years.
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In-House Activities
Members of the PA Developmental
Disabilities Council and its staff participate on Council's behalf in a
number of policy, planning and advisory groups. These include:
- UCEDD Advisory Board
- State Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention Services
- Pa Protection and Advocacy Mental Health Advisory Council
- Independent Monitoring for Quality State Steering Committee
- Office of Mental Retardation Policy Advisory Committee
- Religious Access Facilitation
- Home and Community Based Services Stakeholder Planning Team
- State Independent Living Council
- Human Rights Commission DSC
- Office of Mental Retardation Cultural Competence Committee
- Family Support Advisory Council
- PA Voter's Coalition
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