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

  • First Gear
  • 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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