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    • Overview of Self-Directed Service Options
    • What is Self-Direction?
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Self-Direction

  • Friendly Guide to Self-Direction (pdf)
  • Guidance for Providers (pdf)
  • First Gear
  • Fiscal Intermediary
  • Liaisons
  • Overview of Self-Directed Service Options
  • What is Self-Direction?
  • Front Door
  • Care Managers
  • Self-Direction 101 Training
  • Housing
  • Support Brokers
  • Personal Resource Account (Budget)
  • Staffing
  • Individual Directed Goods and Services

Overview of Self-Directed Service Options

Self-Direction empowers people with IDD and their families to design and manage services based on their individual needs and goals. Self- Direction supports the essence of community inclusion, and because the Self- Directed plan is created by the participant (person with IDD) and those the participant chooses to help, each Self-Direction plan is as unique as the participant who designed it. With assistance from an agency acting as a Fiscal Intermediary (FI), people control their own individualized, portable budgets, and may choose to hire and manage their own support staff. Self- Direction plans and budgets allow participants to access the supports needed to:

  • live at home or in a home of their own, and if they choose, with a roommate,
  • pursue interesting and meaningful employment, volunteer, or other community activities,
  • engage in satisfying, productive relationships with family, friends, and community members, and
  • maintain a healthy lifestyle.
What is Self-Direction?

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you’ve imagined.

- Thoreau

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In The Driver's Seat LogoWe are excited to offer the Self-Directed community a new feature of our website! "Connect by In the Driver’s Seat," will provide people with disabilities, their family members, their circles of support, and all service providers, the opportunity to "connect" with each other to locate staff, Support Brokers, Fiscal Intermediaries, resources, and information and to ask and respond to questions. There’s a lot to see and do in "Connect" so we’ve created helpful videos to support you once you’ve signed in and created an account. We hope that you will find "Connect" another useful tool to navigate Self-Direction. Please reach out to us with any questions and/or to provide feedback on your experience with "Connect."

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