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Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Division of Developmental Disabilities Services

Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Division of Developmental Disabilities Services. Joint Finance Committee Hearing Fiscal Year 2012 Roy A. Lafontaine, Ph.D. Division Director Thursday, March 3, 2011. Overview. Populations Served : Intellectual Disabilities Autism

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Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Division of Developmental Disabilities Services

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  1. Delaware Department of Health and Social ServicesDivision of Developmental Disabilities Services Joint Finance Committee Hearing Fiscal Year 2012 Roy A. Lafontaine, Ph.D. Division Director Thursday, March 3, 2011

  2. Overview • Populations Served: • Intellectual Disabilities • Autism • Prader Willi Syndrome • Aspergers Disorder

  3. Vision Statement • The people we serve live fulfilling lives. • Mission Statement • To provide leadership for a service system that is responsive to the needs of the people we support by creating opportunities and promoting possibilities for meeting those needs.

  4. Overview • Serve over 3,100 individuals and their families • 938 Residential Services • 68 Residents of Stockley Center • 2,180 live at home with their families • 2.6% increase in number of people served • 38 Authorized/Contracted Day and Residential Providers

  5. Accomplishments • Placed 36 people out of 50 budgeted residential placements since July 1, 2010 • Placed 92 out of 101 budgeted special school graduates in day program placements to date in FY 2011 • Provided respite for 358 people to date this fiscal year

  6. Accomplishments Received approval of our 1915(c) Waiver renewal application from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Established Parent/Guardian Forum meetings for public awareness and education in each county

  7. Accomplishments • Initiated a program to standardize quality assurance monitoring and evaluation activities across residential and day services. • Established a designated position to develop and manage a division-wide performance measurement system to significantly improve evidence-based planning and decision making.

  8. We have improved the process whereby we identify and track students who will be exiting special school programs and entering DDDS services Established a standing committee to enhance our working relationship with the Department of Education and other agencies that comprise the Interagency Collaborative Team (ICT) and better ensure the needs of special education students who are eligible for services from the DDDS are being adequately addressed Accomplishments

  9. Trends • An increase in cases of individuals, children and adults, with co-existing mental health and behavioral issues (the “dually diagnosed”) • Increasing requests for emergency residential placements

  10. Complex Cases

  11. Trends • Service constituency that is aging • Increase in the number of individuals who have aging caregivers • Provider network that is struggling to maintain capacity and quality service • Challenges in recruiting and maintaining a competent workforce

  12. FY 2012 Governor’s Recommended Budget Purchase of Service: Special School Graduates

  13. FY 2012 Governor’s Recommended Budget Purchase of Service: Residential Placements

  14. Thank You

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