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Presentation by: Denise Marshall, Centennial High John Wyseman, Reservoir High

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ADMINISTRATION (DDA). Presentation by: Denise Marshall, Centennial High John Wyseman, Reservoir High. DDA MISSION:. Provide leadership to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families Promote empowerment to access quality

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Presentation by: Denise Marshall, Centennial High John Wyseman, Reservoir High

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  1. DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ADMINISTRATION (DDA) Presentation by: Denise Marshall, Centennial High John Wyseman, Reservoir High

  2. DDA MISSION: • Provide leadership to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families • Promote empowerment to access quality • Supports and services to foster personal growth, independence and productivity

  3. ELIGIBILITY: An individual is eligible for a full range of services if he/she has a severe chronic disability that; • Is attributed to a physical or mental impairment, or a combination of mental and physical impairments • Is manifested before the individual attains the age of 22 • Is likely to continue indefinitely • Results in the inability to live independently without external support or continuing and regular assistance.

  4. DDA OVERVIEW • Families should apply by age 14 • Services are not an entitlement • Long term funding to adult service providers • DDA will determine eligibility, if qualified, a service coordinator will be assigned • Families will asked about functioning levels in areas of self-care, community, and job/ employment • Families are encouraged to be realistic regarding current functioning level

  5. Respite Care Family Support Residential Services Individual Support Transitioning Youth Day Services Individual Family Care Children Services Resource Coordination Supported Employment Transportation Community Supported Living Arrangements Summer Programs / Camps & Vacation Vocational Day Program/ Sheltered Workshop TYPES OF SERVICES FUNDED

  6. SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT • ENCLAVE – landscaping, janitorial, moving furniture, recycling • INDEPENDENT COMPETITIVE - hotel maintenance, rest homes, BWI airport • SHELTERED WORKSHOP – packaging items, assembling tool kits, fortune cookies, capping sterile medical test kits, mailings, shredding

  7. TRANSITONING YOUTH • Through the Governor's Transitioning Youth Initiative (GTYI), DDA has been able to fund supported employment and other day services for eligible graduating students. • Without GTYI, students leaving the school system would be placed on a lengthy waiting list for adult services. • For an individual to be eligible for the Governor's Transitioning Youth Initiative (GTYI) he or she must be found fully eligible as developmentally disabled. The "DD" eligibility criteria states that the person has a severe chronic disability.

  8. TRANSPORTATION: • Transportation services are provided to assure that individuals can attend day habilitation and vocational services which can be arranged by the day program, or one of Maryland’s 60 providers

  9. RESPITE CARE: • Short-term; temporary care in an individual’s home or one of the four state residential centers. • Designed to give the primary caregiver (s) a break from their care giving duties. • Respite may be just a few hours or several days in length depending on the plans of the caregiver. • Respite may be planned or made available in a crisis/emergency situation.

  10. HOUSING RESOURCES COMMUNITY SUPPORTED LIVING ARRANGEMENTS (CSLA) • Groups homes • Section 811 – HUD • Home Improvement – Shared/Single/ Sheltered housing • Rental Assistance • Assistance in locating affordable housing

  11. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION • WWW.DDA.GOV Central Maryland Regional Office Rosewood Lane Owings Mills, Maryland 21117 1-877-874-2494 • WWW.SERVICECOORDINATIONINC.ORG 40 Corporate 10480 Little Patuxent Parkway #950 Columbia, MD 21044 410-772-8774 • dawson_robertson@hcpss.org HCPSS- Transition Coordinator Dawson Robertson (0) 410-313-5640

  12. Thank you!

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