NEW MEXICO
Grant Information
- Name of Grantee
- Human Services Department, Medical Assistance Division
- Title of Grant
- Individual Choices
- Type of Grant
- Real Choice Systems Change
- Amount of Grant
- $1,385,000
- Year Original Funding Received
- 2002
Contact Information
Carolyn Ingram, Director
Medical Assistance Division
P.O. Box 2348
Santa Fe, NM 875042348
5058273016
carolyn.ingram@state.nm.us
Subcontractor(s)
None.
Target Population(s)
All populations with disabilities.
Goals
- Establish a statewide Service Delivery Options Training Program (SDOTP) to provide individuals with resources and information on how to access services and make meaningful choices about their living environment and their provider of services.
- Establish a statewide Network for LongTerm Care Policy Change (NLTCPC) program to provide training to consumers, family members, and other advocates on the skills necessary to help create and sustain systems change.
Activities
- Develop a training curriculum to assist consumers, caregivers, and providers in learning how to maximize utilization of social support services and combine those services with medical services to achieve the best health and social support outcomes.
- Create a trainthetrainers model with a core training curriculum with information on current systems and processes as well as new models of services delivery.
- Develop a curriculum to train consumers, families, and other advocates throughout the state with skills to help create and sustain systems change.
- Create a trainthetrainers model to help participants receive training to help them understand state systems that fund services and supports and how to impact those systems to initiate change.
Abstract
New Mexico is reforming its Medicaid longterm care service system, and this project will provide an important testing ground for strategies to provide individuals with resources and information on how to access services and make choices about their living environment and their provider of services. The project will include training on consumerdirected selection/management of providers and an advocacy and leadership training program for individuals with disabilities to lead systems change. This training will include the History and Philosophy of Disability, Public Policy (including the philosophical underpinnings of selfdirected and community supports), State Policy Systems (including the State Legislature), Current Service Delivery and Available Resources, and Community Development and Organizing Strategies.
New Mexico plans to submit an 1115 waiver to integrate longterm care services and expand consumer choice opportunities to shift the existing bias from institutional services to communitybased services and individual choice. This project's strategies will be integrated into the Medicaid 1115 Global Funding waiver that is projected to begin in 2003. The Individual Choices strategies will be implemented prior to the start of the 1115 waiver to enable consumers to better understand the 1115 waiver and make appropriate choices for care.