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resume next Tuesday (Monday is a holiday - enjoy!). Until then - a couple
of important reminders:
- Participate in ASO's Website
Survey
- ODMRDD Releases
Drafts of Phase 1 Deliverables from Futures Recommendations - Your input
needed!
- ODE-OEC Updating Autism
Scholarship Program Rules - Your input needed!
- NOW OPEN! – 2008 NATTAP
Conference Registration, Columbus
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News From ASO:
From ASO:
Please Participate in Our Website Survey
Please participate in
Autism Society of Ohio website survey!
ASO would like your
input to improve our website so that we could provide more accurate, up-to-date,
and easy-to-read information related to autism to suit your needs.
You can participate in
this online survey by clicking here or cutting and
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The results of the
survey will be reflected in our website, and a report will be posted on our
website.
Thank you very much
for your prompt participation!
ODMRDD
Releases Drafts of Phase 1 Deliverables from Futures Recommendations - Your
input needed!
Note from ASO: ODMRDD is very interested in your
feedback! Please note that these "deliverables" are very much a
DRAFT! Additionally, the deliverables should be
considered as each representing a part of a whole - a plan to implement some
serious system change in Ohio - so please consider each deliverable in the
context of the others as well. Nothing presented in the deliverables is
cast in stone - so please provide input to ODMRDD. Of special interest to
the Ohio autism community:
- Deliverable 2: New Flexible Support Waiver
including Intensive Behavioral Needs
- Deliverable 5: Transition Pilot
- Deliverable 8: Waiting Lists
- Deliverable 9: Regional Planning and
Networks
ASO Co-President Barb Yavorcik is part of Policy Leadership Roundtable and
will be working with ODMRDD as these deliverables are vetted and finalized, so
after you have submitted your input to ODMRDD, if you have a very specific
concern that you would like emphasized, please share that with Barb at
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or
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. The next
Policy Leadership Roundtable meeting is scheduled for September 17, 2008, so try
to have your input in before then.
From ODMRDD E-Newsletter Pipeline:
Last Wednsday, at the third meeting of the Policy Leadership Roundtable,
participants reviewed the first group of ‘deliverables’ (products) related to
the 31 recommendations of the MRDD Futures Committee. We took those
recommendations, identified who would support that work internally, and defined
the sequence in which it would be performed. Today we share the work we
have completed to-date in Phase One, which includes 17
deliverables.
These deliverables are being presented as drafts for the field to review and provide feedback. We hope you will find the process to be an efficient way of moving forward. We continue to manage all of the Futures efforts as transparently and inclusively as possible, and take fresh approaches to achieve positive outcomes. This includes sharing drafts and works-in-progress.
I invite the entire MRDD community to review this work, along with members of the Policy Leadership Roundtable. As you review this work, we hope you will note a number of things:
· First, we have remained true to the recommendations given us by the Futures Committee. Our work, most definitely, will lead to the implementation of those recommendations.
· Second, these recommendations allow us to progress in accordance with the themes and values we stated as important at the outset:
1. Less complex service delivery, with fair and logical payment systems;
2. Good stewardship of limited resources;
3. Quality outcomes, through a combination of people and processes;
4. Service delivery models designed in response to choices made by the people served, in
These deliverables are being presented as drafts for the field to review and provide feedback. We hope you will find the process to be an efficient way of moving forward. We continue to manage all of the Futures efforts as transparently and inclusively as possible, and take fresh approaches to achieve positive outcomes. This includes sharing drafts and works-in-progress.
I invite the entire MRDD community to review this work, along with members of the Policy Leadership Roundtable. As you review this work, we hope you will note a number of things:
· First, we have remained true to the recommendations given us by the Futures Committee. Our work, most definitely, will lead to the implementation of those recommendations.
· Second, these recommendations allow us to progress in accordance with the themes and values we stated as important at the outset:
1. Less complex service delivery, with fair and logical payment systems;
2. Good stewardship of limited resources;
3. Quality outcomes, through a combination of people and processes;
4. Service delivery models designed in response to choices made by the people served, in
alliance with community
supports;
5. A system-wide vision developed with stakeholders.
· Third, we hope you will note some creativity in this work – ideas or concepts that one might not immediately connect to the Futures recommendations, but that are imbedded in the intent of those recommendations.
5. A system-wide vision developed with stakeholders.
· Third, we hope you will note some creativity in this work – ideas or concepts that one might not immediately connect to the Futures recommendations, but that are imbedded in the intent of those recommendations.
I am very pleased at the participation we have seen from staff and stakeholders as the implementation process moves forward, and am encouraged by the role of the Policy Leadership Roundtable, as it supports the work to implement system changes in Phase One, and looks at the challenges ahead in Phase Two. Thanks to each of you who has been a part of Phase One. – John Martin
For updated information on the 17 deliverables presented today, please visit http://mrdd.ohio.gov/futures/FuturesImplementationInformation.htm on or after August 7,
and respond to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with any comments. We appreciate hearing from you.
ODE-OEC Updating Autism Scholarship Program Rules - Your input needed!
The Ohio Department of
Education's Office for Exceptional Children is in the process of updating
the Autism Scholarship Program Rules. The current rules (3301-103-01 through
3301-103-08) of the Ohio Administrative Code define how the Department
administers the sc holarship program. The rules have been in effect since the
beginning of the Autism Scholarship in January 2004.
Rule updating is part
of a five-year review plan required by Ohio Law. This requirement gives the
department an opportunity to make changes and any necessary clarifications to
reflect the current language of the Ohio Revised Code regarding the Autism
Scholarship. For example, the original law referred to the program as a
pilot program. (The current law changed the name to the Autism Scholarship.)
Also, the maximum amount of the scholarship was $15,000 and is currently $20,000
in law. The rules must be updated to reflect these changes.
The process to update
the rules is lengthy and requires the input of all interested parties, including
such groups as parents, providers, school districts, an d autism-related
organizations and interest groups. This is the public’s opportunity to provide
feedback to the proposed draft rules that will govern the scholarship program.
The Department is seeking and welcomes any input from the public.
The proposed draft
rules are listed on the Department of Education’s website under the Autism
Scholarship Program section. Any input can be submitted by email to
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.
U.S.
The rules must be
approved by the State Board of Education and the Joint Commission on Agency Rule
Review (JACARR), a committee within the General Assembly.
The proposed rules
will be reviewed for public comment on:
Date: September 15th,
2008
Time: 10:00 AM
NOW OPEN! – 2008
NATTAP Conference Registration
The Autism Society of America (ASA) andOhio
Center
NEW for 2008! Pre-Conference Sessions - November 18, 2008
Pre-Conference sessions are provided by leaders and recognized experts in the field and provide attendees with a valuable opportunity for in-depth discussion and learning.
What: 2008 NATTAP Conference
When: November 19-21, 2008
Where: Greater Columbus Convention Center |Columbus , OH
Late Registration (September 23 - October 20, 2008): $300
On Site Registration (October 20 - November 21, 2008): $315
Parent/Family Member Rate: $100
Pre-Conference Session Rate: $100
Conference registration and information available at: http://www.nattapconference.org
The Autism Society of
Ohio has provided a grant to OCALI reducing the registration rate for parents
from last year's $185 to $100 for all three days of the conference!
Register NOW!
Place:
The State Library of Ohio
Directions:
http://www.winslo.state.oh.us/publib/libdir.html
Please
confirm if you will be attending this session by sending an email to the
following link:
The Autism Society of America (ASA) and
NEW for 2008! Pre-Conference Sessions - November 18, 2008
Pre-Conference sessions are provided by leaders and recognized experts in the field and provide attendees with a valuable opportunity for in-depth discussion and learning.
What: 2008 NATTAP Conference
When: November 19-21, 2008
Where: Greater Columbus Convention Center |
Late Registration (September 23 - October 20, 2008): $300
On Site Registration (October 20 - November 21, 2008): $315
Parent/Family Member Rate: $100
Pre-Conference Session Rate: $100
Conference registration and information available at: http://www.nattapconference.org
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