Do you want to direct your own services?
Are you directing your own services but need more support with managing your paid staff?
Are you interested in finding more creative ways to arrange your paid and unpaid supports?
A Supports Broker can:
• assist you with directing your own services and supports
• help you in hiring and managing your workers
• help you understand and manage your budget for the supports you direct
• help you build natural and community supports
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University is looking for people who want to direct their own services with the help of a Supports Broker.
In this two year project, 40-50 people in southeastern PA will have the opportunity to direct their own services with the assistance of a Supports Broker/Recovery Coach.
The project will recruit people interested in directing their own services. This may include people already directing some of their own services and using agencies for some of their support or people in traditional service models who want to move to a person-directed model but have hesitated in the past because of lack of support. Project participants must be eligible for and receiving home and community-based services through the Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) or the Office of Long-Term Living (OLTL). The project will also specifically recruit people who have dual diagnosis and meet the above criteria (have a mental health diagnosis and are eligible to receive Recovery Coaching/Certified Peer Specialist through Medical Assistance).
Project participants will select a Support Broker/Recovery Coach to assist them with planning, budgeting and arranging formal and informal services and supports. Project participants can either choose from the Supports Brokers/Recovery Coaches that have been recruited by the project staff or can refer someone to be trained and supported through the Supports Brokerage.
Eligibility for Participation:
1. Person is interested in directing his/her own services
And
2. Eligible for and receiving home and community-based services through the Office of Developmental Programs or the Office of Long-
Term Living
And
3. Live in SE Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester,
Montgomery, Bucks)
Participant Requirements:
1. Participate in an interview/survey at both the beginning and end of the project
2. Use the services of a Supports Broker/Recover Coach
3. Attend an orientation for project participants
4. Be willing to share Individual Support Plan and service expenditure information with the project
For more information, help filling or submitting the application: 215-204-9543, kahrens@temple.edu, or fax 215-204-6336
Send application to:
Kristin Ahrens
Institute on Disabilities at Temple University
Student Center Room 411S
1755 N 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Online PDS Demonstration Project Application
