Successful Service Delivery,

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• Successful Service Delivery,
• Successful Partnership
• Bridging the Gap between
• Aging and Disability I R/A system
• 2008 National Aging Disability Referral
  Symposium
• May 19, 2008

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• ADRC
• History and Background

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Events Leading to ADRC

• 1990- Americans w/ Disability Act (Congress)
• 1999- Olmstead Decision (Supreme Court)
• 2001- New Freedom Initiative (President)
• 2001- Real Choice Systems Change Grants (Congress
• to CMS)
• 2003-2006 -Aging Disability Resource Centers-
• (Historic AoA-CMS Partnership)
• 2003 12 states awarded
• 2004 12 states awarded
• 2005 19 states awarded

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CMS and AoA Vision

• To have Aging and Disability Resource Centers in
  every community serving as highly visible and
  trusted places where people of all incomes and
  ages can turn for information on the full range
  of long term support options and a single point
  of entry for access to public long term support
  programs and benefits.

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ADRC States
Alaska Indiana Arkansas Iowa California New
Mexico Florida North Carolina Georgia Northern
Marianas Illinois Wisconsin
Louisiana New Hampshire Maine New
Jersey Maryland Pennsylvania Massachusetts
Rhode Island Minnesota South
Carolina Montana West Virginia
Alabama Idaho Ohio Arizona Kansas Tennessee
Colorado Kentucky Texas DC Michigan Vermont G
uam Mississippi Virginia Hawaii
Nevada Washington Wyoming
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• ADRC Functions

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ADRC Required Functions

• Awareness Information
• Public Education
• Information on Options
• Assistance
• Options Counseling
• Benefits Counseling
• Employment Options Counseling
• Referral
• Crisis Intervention
• Planning for Future Needs
• Access
• Eligibility Screening
• Private Pay Services
• Comprehensive Assessment
• Programmatic Eligibility Determination
• Medicaid Financial Eligibility Determination
• One-Stop Access to all public programs

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• ADRC
• Collaborative
• Philosophy

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ADRC Partnerships

• Federal Partnership
• AoA, CMS, ACF/ADD, NCD, HHS Office on
  Disabilities, NIDRR, NICL
• Cooperative agreements interagency agreements
• State Partnership
• State agencies impacted by ADRC goals and mission
• Signed letters of support signifying
  collaboration
• Signed Streamlined Access Work Plan
• State level advisory board
• Work groups/teams (SILC)
• Local/Community Partnership
• Pilot sites, target population advocacy groups,
  local level advisory board, community
  organizations
• MOUs/MOAs work groups/teams (CIL)

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ADRC More than a place!

• Its about building a coordinated SYSTEM.
• I R/A
• Assessing I R/A Resources Leveraging with
• partners (211/United Way)
• Identifying Gaps building capacity
• Assessing partnership capacity
• Developing protocols
• Designing inclusive assessments
• Testing by collecting data consumer satisfaction
  survey employee observations

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• Some facts about
• I R/A
• at an

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I R/A at an ADRC

• Fall 2007 Semi-annual Report Outcomes
• I R/A Specialist are the largest number of ADRC
  FTEs
• Top 5 types of ADRC I R/A
• Benefits Counseling
• Options Counseling
• Medical/Pharmaceutical Assistant Programs
• Planning for future long term care needs
• Caregiver support services

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I R/A at an ADRC
Fall 2007 Semi-annual Report Outcomes
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I R/A at an ADRC
Fall 2007 Semi-annual Report Outcomes
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Leslie SwannAging Services Program Specialist,
AoALeslie.Swann_at_aoa.hhs.gov202.357.3453