HAWAII

Grant Information


Name of Grantee
Department of Human Services
Title of Grant
Hawaii Real Choices Partnership
Type of Grant
Real Choice Systems Change
Amount of Grant
$1,350,000
Year Original Funding Received
2001

Contact Information


Aileen Hiramatsu
Division Administrator
DHS
601 Kamokila Blvd., Suite 518
Kakuhihewa, Kapolei State Building
Kapolei, HI 96707–2021
808–692–8050
ahiramatsu@medicaid.dhs.state.hi.us

Subcontractor(s)

University of Hawaii
Center on Disability Studies
Robert A. Stodden
808–956–9199

Target Population(s)


Persons who are aging and those with disabilities who require long–term supports to function in their community of choice.

Goals


  • Involve all stakeholder groups and maximize consumer participation in a collaborative systems change process through consumer–majority collaborative bodies responsible for developing policies, procedures, and practices.
  • Enhance access to long–term care services, promote consumer choice and self–determination, and improve service quality by developing and demonstrating a cross–agency, cross–disability web–based single entry point (SEP).
  • Provide primary/secondary consumers and agency personnel with essential attitudes, skills, and knowledge for achieving increased consumer choice and self–determination through use of the web–based SEP.

Activities


  • Establish and support a governing council and workgroups with broad stakeholder representation.
  • Support the governing council and its workgroups to develop and submit background and language for legislation and program guidelines enabling desired systemic changes.
  • Develop and implement a web–based SEP and develop strategies to ensure sufficient and enduring resources to maintain the web–based SEP beyond the end of Hawaii ACCESS Project funding.
  • Assess training and technical assistance needs of participating stakeholder groups, and develop and implement technical assistance activities to meet identified needs.
  • Conduct ongoing evaluation of effectiveness of training and technical assistance activities.

Abstract


The Hawaii Real Choices Partnership will involve all key stakeholder groups in developing, demonstrating, and institutionalizing one of the nation's first cross–agency web–based Single Entry Point (SEP) that will provide consumers with in–depth, up–to–date information on ALL their available options, including those offered by private as well as public agencies.

This innovative SEP will employ the latest computer networking and web technologies to provide the following consumer–friendly features: an interactive assessment process to help consumers identify services for which they are eligible; a unified database showing all long–term care services offered by the state, counties, and private organizations, with open slots listed according to geographical location; and a quality assurance component that will identify service gaps by tracking service requests and allow consumers to rate the services they receive.

To maximize consumer input into all aspects of the project and promote collaboration and coordination among all stakeholders, a collaborative systems improvement process, as demonstrated to be effective in numerous other systems change efforts, will be implemented. This process will be used to guide the activities of a partnership governing council, which will have directive authority over the project and will establish work groups to address critical topics.

The council and work groups will be chaired by a consumer (co–principal investigator for the project) and will have at least 51 percent consumer membership (consumer members will include primary consumers, family members or others concerned for their well–being, and representatives of consumer and family organizations). Other council members will include the heads of the public and private service providing agencies, including the DHS Director, serving as principal investigator, heads of four DHS divisions, two Department of Health divisions, and the Executive Office on Aging.

The overall objective of the Hawaii ACCESS Project is to design and implement effective and enduring improvements in community long–term support systems for all children and adults with disabilities or long–term illness, reflecting increased access to information, choice, and quality services and supports consistent with their community living preferences and priorities.

 

 

 

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