5/23/13 webinar "New World Tour for Adults with Disabilities: Your Questions Answered!" from efnj.com

Some notes and quotes from NJ officials from this webinar

~ 2 programs: Supports Program SP  (when living with family) and CCW (when living not with family)
~ "We do not expect a waiting list for the Supports Program"
~ can get Supports Program while retaining your slot on CCW
~ both SP and CCW will have behavioral supports
~ lots of future flexibility and more money
~ 6/1 starting -- single service plan; single rate table for services (no matter which DDD programs you are with)
~ DDD will not be doing case management; instead you'll will have Support Coordinator  by some provider and DDD will be more for quality review
~ to find local providers, best resource is the director of your local office
~ talk to and tour those providers
~ DDD is vetting Support Coordination agencies; the list of these will be published in June; you'll be able to specify your preference for the Support Coordination agency, but no guarantee that you'll get your choice

~ DDD links that were in the webinar:

Supports Program (SP) page -- they are updating this page regularly
Person-Centered Planning Tool (PCPT)
Individualized Service Plan (ISP) -- because NJ is now "employment first" state, employment-related outcomes have to be in each year's ISP 

~ DDD has hired a firm to set up standard rates; kickoff for the study that the firm is doing was on May 9; rates study over next 5-6 months -- see rates page at www.state.nj.us/humanservices/ddd/providers/ratestudy.html

supported employment (aka job coaching)
~ individual supports -- occasional coaching
~ group supports -- for those needing more intense coaching, groups of a few people with a job coach

new programs to support "employment first"
~ career planing
~ pre-vocational training -- e.g. volunteering to learn skills, job clubs (peer-to-peer help), training (e.g. social skills, computer skills)

What will need to be approved at support coordination level vs on state level?
small stuff and things that are in the typical price range -- at support coordination level
if more than 25% of budget -- need state-level approval

Supports Program Provider Portal  (SPPP)
~ SPPP link http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/ddd/programs/sppp.html
~ right now, they are only accepting applications for becoming "Support Coordination agencies"; applications for becoming a general provider will be accepted in July/Aug

DDD will be processing 2013 grads now; nothing to do right now for 2014 grads -- "don't call us, we will call you"  -- can just gather info and do provider visits

The video of the webinar is to be posted at familyresourcenetwork.org after the weekend.

I will update this post when the video is up.