Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Initiative

MAINE

Target Population

Adults with mental retardation and autism; adults with brain injury; persons with any type of disability in all age groups.

Geographic Focus

Statewide for Individual Budgets and Performance Measures; possibly a regional pilot for the Brain Injury Transition Pilot.

Primary Focus

Planned Use of Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS): No.

Goals, Objectives, and Activities

Goal: Enhance individual choice and control by adopting a standardized assessment and budgeting process for mental retardation waiver services that result in consistent, fair, predictable, and truly portable budgets.

Objectives/Activities

Goal: Create more community options for persons with brain injury by redirecting resources toward more person-centered, consumer-driven services offered in the most integrated and appropriate setting.

Objectives/Activities

Goal: Develop and implement cross-system performance measures to enable the State to comprehensively and coherently assess its success at expanding community options for persons with all types of disabilities.

Objectives/Activities

Key Activities and Products

Consumer Partners and their Involvement in Implementation Activities

Public and Private Partners and their Involvement in Implementation Activities

Public Partners

Private Partners

Advisory Body, Committee, or Task Force

The Work Group for Community-Based Living already serves as the Consumer Task Force for the Quality Choices I Grant, and will continue as the overarching consumer advisory body for the second round Real Choices Grant activities. Work group membership includes consumers and advocates representing persons of all ages with any type of disability.

Formative/Process Evaluation Activities

Summative/Outcome Evaluation Activities

The work group will be developing performance measures to measure the State's progress in achieving a successful rebalancing across settings and a successful shift toward consumer choice and control. The performance measures are intended to provide the State with an ongoing mechanism for measuring rebalancing achieved past the term of the grant.

Strategies to Ensure Sustainability