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Rebalancing Initiative:
Increasing Person-Centered Planning, Informed Choice, and Self Direction

Overview

The Rebalancing Initiative promotes greater choice and control over supports and services by developing and piloting materials and processes to increase the use of person-centered thinking, planning, and services for individuals who are targeted to receive new waiver slots. A subset of the materials will be designed with a specialized focus on person-centered discharge planning forindividuals transitioning from state training centers and who are targeted to receive new waiver slots. The project will work with several communities to expand community options for supports and shift the balance in Virginia by focusing on the individual’s preferences and choices rather than on the service systems’ programs and requirements. Additionally the project is examining mechanisms and strategies for determining how additional services can become consumer-directed in the current waivers.
(Funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.)

Major Activities

• Design, and pilot in 3-5 Virginia communities, tools and resources for person-centered planning and informed choice to be used by individuals with disabilities, family members, case managers, providers, and other supporters have knowledge
• Identify and assist CSBs to support individuals currently in state training centers and individuals currently on the statewide urgent waiting list for MR Waiver in as they choose, design, and manage needed community support and services
• Explore additional services for the possibility of becoming consumer-directed as a result of analysis of information from other states and existing barriers in Virginia

Contact
Tera Yoder at 804-828-3879, tyoder@vcu.edu