OREGON
Grant Information
- Name of Grantee
- Oregon Department of Human Services
- Title of Grant
- Advancing Consumer Direction Through Enhanced Infrastructure
- Type of Grant
- Real Choice Systems Change
- Amount of Grant
- $2,000,996
- Year Original Funding Received
- 2001
Contact Information
Karl Reer
Residential Supports Coordinator
2575 Bittern Street, NE
Salem, OR 973090740
5039459738
Karl.V.Reer@state.or.us
Michael Hlebechuk
Grant Support Coordinator
2575 Bittern Street, NE
Salem, OR 973090740
5039450960
Michael.Hlebechuk@state.or.us
Subcontractor(s)
Oregon Technical Assistance CorporationPerson Centered Planning Pilot Projects
Oregon Health & Sciences University, Center For Self Determination, Pilot Brokerage Project and Consumerrun DropIn Center Survey.
Target Population(s)
Adults and children with disabilities, with a particular focus on persons with psychiatric disabilities for several initiatives (e.g., personcentered planning, development of a pilot brokerage, increasing residential capacity).
Goals
- Increase affordable, accessible housing.
- Promote informed choice and consumer selfdetermination.
- Provide training to consumers and family representatives, service coordinators and service providers.
- Increase the availability of personal assistants and contract registered nurses (CRNs).
Activities
- Provide local assistance to consumers and other stakeholders in planning for needed housing; leveraging resources, developing partnerships; and providing funds for deposits, furnishings, and rent subsidies.
- Revise the planning used by the mental health system to a personcentered process promoting consumer choice, selfdetermination, and community integration.
- Provide funding to add and strengthen consumerrun dropin centers throughout Oregon.
- Provide training to consumers concerning the ADA, the Olmstead decision, selfadvocacy, assessing care needs, protection from abuse, and selfdirecting care.
- Develop a statewide recruitment effort for personal assistants.
Abstract
The Advancing Consumer Direction Through Enhanced Infrastructure grant is intended to refocus and reorient people with disabilities and the workforce towards the outcome of maximizing consumer selfdetermination. A grant coordinator and two housing staff will coordinate the efforts of four main workgroups composed of consumers, family representatives, stakeholders, and agency staff in implementing 24 specific goals identified in the grant.
The grant will pilot a consumerrun brokerage in one Oregon County and assist in the development and strengthening of dropin centers demonstrating new models of consumerdirected choice. Crossdisability and crossdiscipline events and conferences conducted during the grant period will foster new partnerships and service integration. Many educational and training activities are planned to change service provider culture across the range of services to adopt consumerdirected approaches, to enhance the skills of the personal assistance workforce, and to increase the number of nurses trained to support persons with disabilities living in the community.