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(IHSS) In-Home Supportive Services and Independent Living

ADAPT:  Americans with Disabilities for Attendant Programs Today - www.adapt.org/index.php - There's no place like home; and we mean real homes, not nursing homes. ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.

California Community Transitions Project - In January 2007, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) was awarded special federal grant number 1LICMS30149 to implement a Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration, “California Community Transitions” (CCT).  CCT demonstration services are available through September 30, 2016.  

CDCAN - California Disability Community Action Network - www.cdcan.us/IHSS/index.htm - In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) issues.

CICA - California In-Home Supportive Services Consumer Alliance - http://www.cicaihss.org/ - representing the consumer viewpoint on all IHSS issues at the local, state and federal levels.

Disability Benefits 101 - www.disabilitybenefits101.org/ca/programs/health_coverage/medi_cal/ihss/program.htm - working with a disability in California.

Disability Benefits 101 - www.disabilitybenefits101.org/ca/programs/health_coverage/medi_cal/ihss/faqs.htm - frequently asked questions.

Freedom Clearinghouse - www.freedomclearinghouse.org - dedicated to keeping people in the community and out of nursing homes. Information on how people can stay in their own homes; blueprint for a state plan to implement Olmstead; what's happening in other states; how to get involved.

IHSS Providers - www.dss.cahwnet.gov/research/res/pdf/IHSSproviders.pdf - California Department of Social Services study of in-home care providers.

IHSS Social Work Training Academy - www.cdss.ca.gov/agedblinddisabled/PG1214.htm - curriculum and materials for Phases 1-4 of the IHSS Social Worker Training Academy, a discussion-based training to help social workers provide consistent needs assessments, functional levels, and IHSS services. 

ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization - www.ilru.org/ - maintains links to independent living resource materials, rehabilitation research and training, centers for independent living, and other projects and research of interest to people with disabilities.

In-Home Supportive Services Coalition - www.ihsscoalition.org/ - Consumers and Providers United for a Better Tomorrow!

In-Home Supportive Services - www.dss.cahwnet.gov/research/res/pdf/IHSSproviders.pdf - IHSS Providers - Characteristics of Caregivers in the In-Home Supportive Services Program

LILA - Living Independently in Los Angeles - http://lila.ucla.edu/Master.cfm?Content=Main.cfm - disability-related news and links to events.

NSCLC (National Senior Citizens Law Center) is distributing three IHSS resources (3/3/11):

Personal Assistance Service Council of Los Angeles - www.pascla.org/Pages/IHSS.htm - home care registry.

Senior Survival School - Survival Sheet #10 IHSS Share of Cost - www.seniorsurvivalschool.org/media/docs/0822_(10)IHSSSHAREOFCOST.pdf - IHSS Share of Cost Program survival sheet.

Senior Survival School - www.seniorsurvivalschool.org/ - Planning for Elders in the Central City is working to improve the quality of life of seniors, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers in San Francisco and beyond. Planning for Elders, a community non-profit founded in 1991, works to fulfill its mission through advocacy, organizing, education and training for San Francisco's seniors, persons with disabilities, and their caregivers.

Weathering the Storm: The Impact of the Great Recession on Long-Term Services and Supports - AARP (Added 1/31/11)

Westside Center for Independent Living - www.wcil.org - empowers people with disabilities to reach their independent living goals.