MONTANA
Grant Information
- Name of Grantee
- Department of Public Health and Human Services
- Title of Grant
- Montana Real Choice Systems Change
- Type of Grant
- Real Choice Systems Change
- Amount of Grant
- $1,385,000
- Year Original Funding Received
- 2002
Contact Information
John Zeeck, Quality Assurance Specialist
Department of Public Health and Human Services
P.O. Box 4210
111 North Sanders
Helena, MT 59604
4064442995
jzeeck@state.mt.us
Subcontractor(s)
Support and Techniques for Empowering People (STEP), Inc.
Contact: Joan Grauman, Evergreen Center
4062482055
joang@stepinc.org
Montana Home Choice Coalition
Contact: Michael O'Neal, AWARE, Inc.
4064590281
ONeil_Michael@msn.com
Western Transportation Institute, Montana State UniversityBozeman
Contact: Lisa Ballard
4069946529
Lballard@coe.montana.edu
Target Population(s)
All persons with disabilities in Montana.
Goals
- Modify the longterm care system to create a system designed for individualized funding and choice.
- Support consumers, their families, and providers with information, training, and technical assistance for their participation in the new system.
- Identify accessible and affordable housing options.
- Develop and implement a coordinated transportation system.
Activities
- Redesign Montana's contracting and billing system to promote individualized funding and choice in service delivery and rewrite Oracle software program to meet these requirements.
- Revise existing curricula for parents, advocates, and selfadvocates to reflect changes in the Montana Developmental Disability Program and provide training and technical assistance in its use.
- Establish HomeChoice Mortgage Home Ownership Pilot project in four cities.
- Identify existing homeownership curriculum materials to meet needs of people with disabilities or develop such materials, and provide to existing home ownership networks.
- Develop at least 16 community housing opportunities for people with disabilities annually.
- Assist at least 10 individuals/families with disabilities to obtain home ownership through partnering with existing home ownership networks.
- Provide training and technical assistance on the housing development process, supportive housing concepts, home buying assistance, universal design, and housing advocacy.
- Assist two communities in developing coordinated transportation plans that meet the specific needs of the disabled population and other persons with transportation problems.
- Plan for and build or support two coordinated transportation models that can be replicated statewide.
- Identify Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies and other coordination tools and develop system requirements for a statewide transportation computer system.
Abstract
Three programs or divisions within the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services will collaborate to build systems to promote real choice in Montana. The Developmental Disabilities Program will completely change the way that services are offered to persons with developmental disabilities. The Program will become one in which services are funded for an individual based on that person's needs. Each person will be able to purchase and pay for their own services from their choice of qualified providers. Extensive training, consulting, and information will be presented to families and consumers to inform them about systems change, and a software system will be created to implement the individualized services system.
The Addictive and Mental Disorders Division will coordinate the development and use of accessible and affordable housing in four communities in Montana with the Montana HomeChoice Coalition. The coordinator will work with local, state, and federal resources to find affordable and accessible housing for all persons with disabilities.
Montana Vocational Rehabilitation will coordinate with the Montana Transportation Partnership and the Western Transportation Institute to develop and implement a coordinated transportation system in two communities in Montana. The system will provide transportation services to all persons with disabilities and will provide a replicable model for the state.