Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Initiative

IDAHO

Grant Information


Name of Grantee

Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Family and Community Services

Title of Grant

Idaho Money Follows the Person Project

Type of Grant

Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Initiative

Amount of Grant

$749,999

Year Original Funding Received

2003

Contact Information


Cameron Gilliland (Contract Monitor)
450 West State Street
PO Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0036
208-334-5536
gillilac@state.id.us

Subcontractor(s)

Beth Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D.
Project Director
208-282-4436
bhstamm@isu.edu

Dan Wolfley, B.Bus., CPA
Project Coordinator
Idaho State University Institute of Rural Health
Campus Box 8174
Pocatello, ID 83209-8174
208-282-4436
dwolfley@isu.edu

Target Population(s)


People of all ages with physical, mental, developmental, or aging-related disabilities and long-term care needs.

Goals


  • Facilitate community integration through a continuing anti-stigma campaign.
  • Identify ways to reapportion and maximize funding for community services through a statewide service utilization and economic analysis.
  • Examine the political and fiscal feasibility of increasing resources for community living and explore ways to create a more hospitable community through a community development project.
  • Study ways to assist people with disabilities to reach their community integration goals through a community-based effectiveness study.

Activities


  • Continue implementation of the existing anti-stigma campaign.
  • Recruit selected communities to identify and develop supportive resources.
  • Conduct a study of the effectiveness of an intensive anti-stigma campaign.
  • Conduct an intensive economic and policy analysis of statewide service utilization since 1995.

Abstract


Under this grant, the State will build on work begun under the 2001 Real Choice Grant by completing a research-validated plan for community integration in Idaho. The project will (1) continue the anti-stigma campaign designed to reduce stigma and facilitate community integration, (2) continue the economic analysis of the current Medicaid system to identify ways to reapportion and maximize funding, (3) expand community development project efforts to examine the political and fiscal feasibility of increasing living resources and create a more hospitable community for people who wish to live in it, and (4) expand the ongoing effectiveness study to test what best helps people of all ages with any disabilities reach their community integration goals.

Consumers will also be involved in the project implementation. The Community Integration Committee, which will oversee the project, is made up of people with disabilities, family members, and representatives of private organizations and public agencies. Community-to-Community Coalitions will be established in the research sites to involve a broad base of community members.

This project will produce sustained change by identifying implementation strategies for cost-effective, community-based care. Activities conducted under this grant will demonstrate the feasibility of providing such services in a cost-neutral manner to the maximum number of individuals with disabilities in the most integrated settings based on their wants and needs. Products will include a research-based community integration plan, evidence-based protocols for anti-stigma campaigns, community development projects, and community integration planning.