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I Choose Where and With Whom I Live

I Choose Where and With Whom I Live. S U P P O R T E S E L F – D E T E R M I N A T I O N  L I V I N G. The Fourth Statewide Self-Determination Conference November, 2011. What is Supported Living?. Supported Living is an alliance between

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I Choose Where and With Whom I Live

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  1. I Choose Where and With Whom I Live S U P P O R T E S E L F – D E T E R M I N A T I O N  L I V I N G The Fourth Statewide Self-Determination Conference November, 2011

  2. What is Supported Living? Supported Living is an alliance between a person who requires long term, publicly funded, organized assistance and an agency, whose role is to arrange or provide whatever assistance is necessary for the person to live in a decent and secure home of the person’s own. - adapted from John O’Brien, 1993

  3. Types of Places People Live While Receiving Long-Term Support in Wisconsin

  4. Types of Places People Live While Receiving Long-Term Support in Wisconsin

  5. Types of Places People Live While Receiving Long-Term Support in Wisconsin

  6. What is Supported Living? The phrase home of the person’s own emphasizes that people who receive Supported Living are in charge of their own home. The home “belongs” to the person, not to a service provider. The importance of that characteristic cannot be overstated.

  7. What is Supported Living? The role of the agency is “… to arrange or provide whatever assistance is necessary.” This emphasis differentiates Supported Living from other important ways people have organized assistance within their own homes.

  8. What is Supported Living? • Supported Living • enables people to lease their own apartments or own their homes, • with their choice of roommates and staff, • with a variety of paid and unpaid support tailored to the needs of each person. • People in supported living may need little support from services, or they may need 24-hour support. • The kind and amount of support is tailored to the individual's needs.

  9. Supported Living is Found • In relatively small, “stand-alone agencies” across Wisconsin, the US, Canada the UK, Ireland, Australia • As a service created by families, particularly in Australia • Increasingly provided by larger service agencies

  10. Supported Living in Wisconsin • Is provided by agencies from one end of the state to the other, from Syldan, Inc in Racine to New Horizons North in Ashland • Began in Dane County, with Options, and is the most prevalent residential service in Dane County • Is growing within Family Care, particularly within Community Care of Central Wisconsin and the Milwaukee County Family Care Dept

  11. Community Care of Central Wisconsin • Commitment to individualize services • Initiated Supported Living services for 54 members in 2010 • Brief summary of outcomes: • Better lives • Overall, less cost • See report, Supported Living in Family Care: Community Care of Central Wisconsin’s Experience

  12. What’s Happening Now - Resources • The Short Guide to Supported Living in Wisconsin • Supported Living in Family Care: Community Care of Central Wisconsin’s Experience • Other written resources in process • Family-Governed Agency-Hosted Supported Living • Supported Living in Family Care: Milwaukee County Department of Family Care’s Experience • And more to come … • Statewide list of Supported Living providers being developed

  13. What’s Happening Now - Activities • BDDS Supported Living Sparks Grant • IRIS families working to help develop SL, particularly in Milwaukee/SE Wisconsin • IRIS Web Site Supported Living Discussion Groups: www.wisconsin-iris.com • Supported Living Discussion Group • Supported Living in Milwaukee/SE Wisconsin Discussion Group • Service providers learning about SL • Statewide work group on SL

  14. Next Steps in Wisconsin • Continue to build understanding within DHS, IRIS and Family Care of importance of and cost-effectiveness of Supported Living; • Expand Supported Living work group; • Develop a learning group of agencies wanting to offer supported living, and engaging in the ongoing learning needed; • Support and assist individuals and family members who would like to develop small supported living agencies.

  15. Next Steps in Wisconsin – What Can You Do? • If eligible for services or a family member of someone receiving services, tell your IRIS Consultant, Family Care Organization, or County HSD that you are interested in receiving Supported Living services; • If a service provider, join with other providers learning how to provide Supported Living; • Be part of the informal statewide learning about Supported Living.

  16. Learn More • Add your name to the sign up sheets • Contact Dennis Harkins, InControl Wisconsin at dwharks@aol.com to be part of the Supported Living work group, to learn more about what we are doing in Wisconsin, to suggest what we might do better. • See more detailed planning on Supported Living at incontrolwisconsin.org/ . View What We Are About and go to Supported Living .

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