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OPWDD Forums Now Available for Individuals and Families to Learn More About New Care Coordination Organizations

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As you may know, the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is making an important improvement to the way services are coordinated. The Medicaid Service Coordination (MSC) program which is currently used to coordinate services will be replaced by a new and improved program called Health Home Care Management beginning July 1, 2018. Health Home Care Management will continue to provide the service coordination that people currently receive, and will also provide coordination of other services, such as health care and mental health supports.

Health Home Care Management Services will be provided by Care Coordination Organizations (CCOs), new entities formed by existing providers of developmental disability services. To provide you with information about the transition, OPWDD and the CCOs are hosting regional public forums across the State.

These forums are intended to educate the people we support about the transition. In order to accommodate the greatest number of individuals with developmental disabilities and their family members, we ask that you attend no more than one People First Care Coordination public forum. The same information will be presented at all regional forums, regardless of location and date.

 https://opwdd.ny.gov/news_and_publications/news/public-forums-now-available-individuals-and-families-learn-more-about-new

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OPWDD will be presenting a powerpoint on the changes

We will have the leaders of the new organizations in person

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NYC FAIR Meeting, 4/23: CCOs & Managed Care

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Monday, April 23, 2018 at 6 – 8 pm

CCOs? And CCs?

All Three Approved

Care Coordination Organizations For NYC &
an IDD Managed Care Organization

WILL BE

at IAC

Meet their leaders, get the updates about their progress AND get answers FROM

 

Advanced Care Alliance: advancecarealliance.org/

Care Design New York: caredesignny.org/

Tri-County Care: tricountycare.org/

Partners Health Plan: phpcares.org/

In person at
IAC
150 West 30 Street, 15th Floor

(a light dinner will be available)

Register & let us know you if you need translation Remote Video Access will be Available
Indicate Location Preference on Registration Form

 

Confirmed Remote Sites:
FREE, 191 Bethpage-Sweet Hollow Road, Old Bethpage, NY
Little Flower, 2450 N. Wading Rive Road, Wading River, NY
ARC of Westchester,  Gleeson-Israel Gateway Center, 265 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY

 

REGISTER NOW : https://goo.gl/forms/TEOqHI2yzo4dYMZY2

 

Submit your questions on Registration Form or email to info@nycfair.org

 

“Keeping The Promise” Letter from Laura Kennedy

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On behalf of Laura J. Kennedy, President, NYSARC, Inc.:

 

Dear Family Members and Friends,

During the last ten years, it has become increasingly difficult for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to secure the residential placements they need to live safe, secure, and independent lives in their communities.Additionally, families throughout the state live in a perpetual state of anxiety that despite their advancing age and possible infirmity there is no assurance that anything other than a family catastrophe, including the death of a family caregiver, will be sufficient to justify an appropriate residential placement.

This problem only seems to be getting worse. According to a recent report by OPWDD, there are thousands of individuals who now need, or will need, permanent housing. In response to this growing housing crisis, parents and advocates have developed this Report To The Governor which describes the urgent problem and requests that the Governor expeditiously address it.

For all those who believe that we must resolve this issue, please  Read the Report to the Governor: “Keeping the Promise”and sign our online petition. We need thousands of names to bring this matter to the attention of the public, the press, and especially the Governor in preparation for the FY 18-19 State Budget.

For over half a century the united voice of families, parents, and friends of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has helped ensure that they are never forgotten. During a period in our nation’s history when human needs are under siege the voice of our families, friends, and advocates throughout the state has never been more important.

Again, we urge you to Read the Report to the Governor: “Keeping the Promise”  and sign our online petition and ask that all of you who care about our families and their loved ones to do the same.

Thank you for your support!

 

UPDATE People First Care Coordination Webinar for Individuals and Families

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Last week, Acting Commissioner Delaney announced the availability of an online presentation on People First Care Coordination for individuals and families who receive services through the Office for People With Disabilities’ (OPWDD) service system. The presentation will describe plans for the move to enhanced care coordination, as well as provide the reasons for this shift and a timeline of anticipated next steps.

If you would like to attend this online presentation, please note that the online portion of the event which is viewable from your computer, is now full.  However, you can still connect with just a telephone and listen to the presentation by following the instructions below:

Date:  Monday, August 7

Time:   1:00pm – 2:00pm

To listen to the presentation by phone:

Call 1-844-633-8697

When asked for your Access Code or Meeting Number enter 647572988#

If you are unable to listen to the event at that time, it will be recorded and posted at this link  for viewing at any time.

In the meantime, if you would like more information, please visit the People First Care Coordination section of the OPWDD website and feel free to submit any feedback you have about People First Care Coordination to care.coordination@opwdd.ny.gov.