Jan 10, 2019 | Amendment 2, Archives
https://dda.health.maryland.gov/Documents/Ammendment%202%20Update.pdf
Jan 10, 2019 | Amendment 2, Archives
Update from the Self-Directed Advocacy Network (MarylandSDS.org) regarding Ongoing Discussions with the Developmental Disabilities Administration When DDA published a draft of Amendment 2 to the HCBS Community Pathways Waiver in summer 2016 self-direction advocates...
Jan 10, 2019 | Amendment 2, Archives
https://dda.health.maryland.gov/Documents/Ammendment%202%20Update.pdf
Jan 10, 2019 | Amendment 2, Archives
We are not professional administrators or paid consultants, but we have a great deal of experience regarding the nuts and bolts of self-direction. Please engage in a dialogue with us. Although SDS participants represent a minority of DDA participants, they have led...
Jan 10, 2019 | Amendment 2, Archives
The Maryland Developmental Disability Administration (DDA) is proposing several changes SDS. Families and participants have expressed their concerns by written correspondence, and in meetings and webinars to DDA. The proposed changes violate...
Jan 10, 2019 | Amendment 2, Archives
Currently, about 14,000 Marylanders with significant developmental disabilities receive funding from DDA. Of those 14,000 only about 500 now participate in SDS. The remaining 13,500 continue to receive services from traditional providers. Many of those traditional...