TLS Network March 27, 2015

Check & Connect

• Purpose of Consent Decree• What Have we Accomplished?• Where we are/ FAQ• “Tips” for Completing The Career

Development Plan• Live Binder• FEED BACK & Continuing Momentum

Objectives for Today’s Session

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TLS Check & Connect Packets

TLS Check & Connect Power Point Consent Decree Consent Decree fact sheet TLS Power Points

o TLS Updates o Career Development Plans o Documenting Community Vocational Experiences o MAPs

Career Development Plan Tips for Completing the CDP Career Exploration ICI- More than Just a Job: Person Centered Planning Transition Timeline Timeline Checklist RIPIN-Pathways checklist RI Employment First Policy RIDE Employment First Policy Parent Employment First Letter Template ORS Referral Memo SIS Fact Sheet MAPS Fact Sheet Brochures & Fact Sheets

o BHDDH o ORS

What does the Consent Decree do?

1. Resolves the findings that RI violated ADA (Olmstead Act)

2. Includes youth with I/DD in transition from secondary schools:

“Rhode Island Youth Transition Target Population” “Rhode Island Youth Exit Target Population”3. Defines certain terms and outcomes

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Phase I: Deadlines “RI Youth Exit Target Population” Exiting Class of: •2013-2014•2014-2015•2015-2016

October 1, 2014 - All individuals in “RI Youth Transition Target Population” will have

services & supports described in Section V (A & B) of Consent DecreeJanuary 1, 2015

- All individuals in “RI Youth Exit Target Population” will have person- centered planning resulting in a career development plan… Sections

V (A) (1&2) and Section V of Consent Decree

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Phase 2: Technical Assistance• TLS Network- communication & information

dissemination & training 2014-2015 Awareness & roll out of EF policy CDP templates-Draft RI Transition Timeline- Draft RI Transition Matrix- 3rd Edition

• Regional Transition Centersstate wide TAC (9/26/14)mid-year cadre- December 12, 2014state institute March 12 & 13 2015

• ORS, Center of Excellence & Advocacy (CEA), Sherlock Center

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ORS• Creation of an IDD Supported Employment Unit• Created timeline with RIDE and BHDDH to assist schools with

referrals to adult services. • Developed a referral process for ORS to attend/ provide input

to Career Development Teams. (letter to Sped Directors)• Lead agency in developing Miriam Project Search in

Providence to offer work experiences to students with IDD in their last year of high school

• Developing a pilot project with Cumberland High School and NRI collaborative to offer a summer work experience to students in ESY.

• Offering four group benefits counseling information meetings around the state for students receiving SSI/SSDI to discuss work incentives.

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Sherlock Center Demonstration Project•Family Employment Awareness Training (FEAT)•Self-Determination Training•Discovery- Employment Experience

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CEA•Professional development opportunities to 12 schools and districts addressing employment for youth with IDD and the consent decree

BHDDHbhddh.transition@bhddh.ri.gov

• Supervisors attending regional TAC meetings• Member of the State Transition Council• Updated referral process• Created a Transition Timeline with RIDE and ORS• Currently attending meetings for students who are in their

last year of school (IEPs; CDPs)• Created brochures on topics related to Transition to Adult

Service: Eligibility, SIS • Created Employment First Policy• Collaboration with ORS on multiple projects including the

Project Search Initiative 04/19/23

BHDDH Division of Developmental DisabilitiesEligibility CriteriaTo be eligible for supports funded through the Division of Developmental Disabilities individuals must meet the following definition of developmental disability, as stated in RI State Law:"The term 'developmental disability' means a severe, chronic disability of a person which:•attributable to a mental or physical impairment of combination of mental and physical impairments; is manifested before the person attains age twenty-two (22); is likely to continue indefinitely; results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

– personal care– communication– mobility– learning– self-direction– capacity for independent living– economic self-sufficiency; and,

•reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services which are life-long or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated."

04/19/23 Rhode Island General Laws § 40.1-21-4.3(5)

Things to continue• Read the Consent Decree

– Parents may be aware of it and refer to it in IEP and Transition meetings

• Dialog with school & district– How your practices, forms and procedures meet the expectations of

the Consent Decree– Consistent documentation of evidence your district is complying with

the CD• Paradigm

– Everyone can and is expected to enter supported employment– It is in your best interest to document instances where the steps

toward employment are altered (i.e. parent refuses, adult agency will not participate, etc.)

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Where we are

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Tools for Implementing Career Development Plan

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_shared_binder?id=1578676

ACCESS KEY “CDP”

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