Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities and Families by Making Community Inclusion Real

All HCBS settings must:

• Be integrated in and facilitate access to the greater community;
• Allow individuals optimized autonomy and independence in making life choices;
• Be chosen by the individual from among residential and day options, including non-disability specific settings;
• Ensure right to privacy, dignity and respect (including no coercion or restraint);
• Provide opportunity to seek competitive employment;
• Provide for choice of roommate in a residential setting; and
• Encourage choice of services and choice of who provides them.

Monitoring Activities and Data Collection

Independent Monitoring for Quality (IM4Q) determines a baseline for where Pennsylvania stands with the Rule. As an information-gathering method used by the Office of Developmental Programs (ODP), IM4Q reports are used to ensure that people are healthy and safe; and to offer services that promote choice and control in their everyday lives.

HCBS "Gather for Change" Learning and Advocacy Team

A program, funded by the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council, designed so people can develop advocacy skills and learn to talk with policymakers about HCBS. Teams are made up of:

• Pennsylvania residents with a disability who use waiver services

• People with lived disability experience

• Self-advocates with an intellectual or developmental disability, or autism

More Information

Jamie Ray-Leonetti
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215-204-9543