2001 Real Choice for Systems Change Grants

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
Manager, System Development Unit
503–945–9738
Karl.V.Reer@state.or.us

Michael Hlebechuk
Grant Support Coordinator
2575 Bittern Street, NE
Salem, OR 97309–0740
503–945–0960
Michael.Hlebechuk@state.or.us


Subcontractor(s)

Oregon Technical Assistance Corporation—Person Centered Planning Pilot Projects
Oregon Health & Sciences University, Center For Self Determination, Pilot Brokerage Project and Consumer-Run Drop-In Center Survey.

Target Population(s)

Adults and children with disabilities, with a particular focus on persons with psychiatric disabilities for several initiatives (e.g., person-centered planning, development of a pilot brokerage, increasing residential capacity).

Goals

Activities

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 self-determination. 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 consumer-run brokerage in one Oregon County and assist in the development and strengthening of drop-in centers demonstrating new models of consumer-directed choice. Cross-disability and cross-discipline 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 consumer-directed 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.