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- Fiscal/Employer Agent Workshop: Key Elements, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
- Cash & Counseling Congressional Briefing in Washington DC
- Illinois Joins the Cash & Counseling Team
- Director of the Cash & Counseling National Program Office Receives the Maxwell Pollack Award
- Cash & Counseling Expands to 11 New States!
- National Program Office at Boston College Awards Cash & Counseling Software Project
- Article Published in "Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care"
- Wall Street Journal Article on Vermont’s LTC System
- Press Release: Federal Government Encourages States To Make Self-Directed Personal Care An Option For Disabled Medicaid Consumers Who Need Help At Home
- Cash & Counseling Programs Given Major Boost
- Director of the Cash & Counseling National Program Office Receives the Flynn Prize
- Rhode Island Local News Runs Story on Personal Choice
- Cash & Counseling Programs Named 2007 Choices for Independence Program Champions
- Alabama First State Approved to Add Consumer-Directed Care Options to Medicaid State Plan
- AoA Announces Availability of $5 Million for Nursing Home Diversion Modernization Grants
- Government and Vendor Fiscal/Employer Agent Workshop: Building Sustainable Fiscal Supports for Self-directed Service Programs
- HHS Announces $8.8 Million For New Nursing Home Diversion Programs
- New Jersey Project Director Wins Public Leadership Award
- Hawaii Introduces Cash & Counseling Bill
- Stateline.org Story on Cash & Counseling
- Senator McCain's Speech includes remarks on Cash & Counseling
- Resources & Publications
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- Consumer Direction in Managed Long-Term Care: An Exploratory Survey of Practices and Perceptions
- Consumer-Directed Home Care in the Netherlands, England, and Germany
- Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas
- Payments to Families Who Provide Care: An Option That Should Be Available
- Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Report on New Jersey Paid Worker Focus Groups
- Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Report on Florida Paid Worker Focus Groups
- Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Report on Arkansas Paid Worker Focus Groups
- IndependentChoices: Report on Arkansas Focus Groups
- Cash & Counseling Call for Proposals (CFP) Document
- Changing to Consumer-Directed Care: The Implementation of the Cash & Counseling Demonstration in Florida
- Consumer and Counselor Experiences in the Arkansas IndependentChoices Program
- Lessons from the Implementation of Cash & Counseling in Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey
- Moving to IndependentChoices: The Implementation of the Cash & Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas
- Early Lessons from the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation
- Implementation Issues for Consumer-Directed Programs: A Survey of Policy Experts
- The Cash & Counseling Qualitative Study: Stories From The Consumer-Directed Care Program In Florida
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
- The Administration on Aging
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
- The Clearinghouse for the Community Living Exchange Collaborative
- The National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce
- Promoting Consumer Direction in Aging Services
- Determining Consumer Preferences for a Cash Option: Arkansas Survey Results
- Addressing Liability Issues in Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Services (CDPAS): The National Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Selected Other Models
- The Experiences of Workers Hired Under Consumer Direction in Arkansas
- Independent Choices: National Symposium on Consumer-Directed Care and Self-Determination for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities
- The Cash & Counseling Qualitative Study: Stories from the IndependentChoices Program in Arkansas
- Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation: Start-up Activities
- The Cash & Counseling Qualitative Study: Stories from the Personal Preference Program in New Jersey
- The Effects of Cash & Counseling on Personal Care Services and Medicaid Costs in Arkansas
- The Effect of Consumer Direction on Personal Assistance Received in Arkansas
- Does Consumer Direction Affect the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance in Arkansas?
- Determining Personal Care Consumers' Preferences for a Consumer-Directed Cash & Counseling Option: Survey Results from Arkansas, Florida, New Jersey, and New York Elders and Adults with Disabilities
- Consumer Preferences for a Cash Option Versus Traditional Services: Telephone Survey Results for New Jersey Elders and Adults
- An Exploratory Study of Personal Assistance Service Choice and Decision-Making Among Persons with Disabilities and Surrogate Representatives
- Arkansas' IndependentChoices Brochure
- Distribution of Long-Term Care Services: Vermont
- Participant Self-Assessment Form: Arkansas
- Congressional Briefing: "Cash & Counseling: Part of the Long-Term Care Answer?"
- AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting: The Effects of Cash & Counseling
- Arkansas' Social Marketing Ideas and Materials
- Arkansas' IndependentChoices Fiscal Management Performance Based Contracting Standards
- Tasks To Be Performed By a Government Fiscal/Employer Agent
- Tasks To Be Performed By a Vendor Fiscal/Employer Agent
- Colorado Medical Assistance Act: Consumer-Directed Care
- Florida Bill: 2002 Legislation
- Kentucky Independence Plus Through Consumer-Directed Services Program
- Vermont: An Act Relating to the Distribution of Long-Term Care Services
- A Guide to Quality in Consumer Directed Services
- Quality Crosswalk Table with the Required Waiver Assurances
- Oregon RFP: Training and Technical Assistance
- Arkansas' Assessment Tools
- Arkansas' CEP Template
- Florida's Purchasing Plans and Account Statements
- Florida's Consumer-Direct Care Plus Consent Form
- Arkansas' Employment/Worker Forms
- Arkansas' Enrollment and Disenrollment Forms
- Florida's Consumer-Directed Care Plus Application Form
- Arkansas' Participant and Review Summary Templates
- South Carolina's Provider Agreement
- Arkansas' Quarterly Report Template
- Arkansas' Representative Designation Forms
- Arkansas' Limited Power of Attorney Form
- Consumer-Directed Attendant Support Training Reference Manual
- Florida's Consumer Notebook
- New Hampshire's "Operating An Other Qualified Agency" Technical Assistance Training Manual
- TA Call: Introducing the Cash & Counseling Next Steps National Program Team
- TA Call: Cash & Counseling Program: Getting Started
- TA Call: Overview of the Performance Indicator Report
- TA Call: Overview of Minnesota's 1915 (c) Waiver
- TA Call: Designing Effective Waivers with a Focus on Self-Direction
- Teleconference Three: "Getting Your Questions Answer: An Open Forum"
- Teleconference Two: "Research and Implementation: Lessons from the Original Demonstration"
- Teleconference One: "Responding to Cash & Counseling Call for Proposals: Requirements and Resources"
- Consumer Preferences for a Consumer-Directed Cash Option Versus Traditional Services: Telephone Survey Findings for Florida Elders and Adults with Physical Disabilities
- Consumer and Surrogate Preferences for a Cash Option Versus Traditional Services: Florida Adults with Developmental Disabilities
- Determining Consumers' Preferences for a Cash Option: New York Telephone Survey Findings
- Improving the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance through Consumer Direction
- Does Arkansas' Cash & Counseling Affect Service Use and Public Costs?
- Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance for Consumer-Employed Personal Assistance Service Workers: Issues, Challenges and Promising Practices
- Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas
- How Do Hired Workers Fare Under Consumer-Directed Personal Care?
- Developing Choices, Empowering Iowans-Frequently Asked Questions about Iowa’s Cash & Counseling program
- New Mexico Branding Materials
- Florida's Consumer-Directed Care Plus Waiver Operational Protocol
- The Vermont Long-Term Care Plan: A Demonstration Waiver Proposal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- California's 1115 Demonstration Waiver
- Connecticut's Individual and Family Support Waiver Application
- Delaware's Attendant Services Waiver Application
- Florida's 1115 Waiver Amendment
- New Hampshire's Independence Plus 1915 (c) Waiver
- North Carolina's Independence Plus: A Program for Family or Individual Directed Community Services Waiver
- North Dakota's Independence Plus: A Demonstration Program for Family or Individual Directed Community Services Waiver
- South Carolina's Independence Plus: A Demonstration Program for Individual or Family Directed Community Services
- Minnesota's Waiver Excerpts on Legally Liable Relatives and Training Caregivers
- Rhode Island's 1915 (c) HCBS Waiver
- Michigan's Presentations on Person-Centered Planning
- State Panel on Communications: Rhode Island's Presentation
- State Panel on Communications: Minnesota's Presentation
- Consumer-Directed Care: What a Difference Six Months Makes!
- State Panel on Communications: New Mexico's Presentation
- Do Consumer-Directed Medicaid Supportive Services Work for Children with Developmental Disabilities?
- Effect of Consumer Direction on Adults' Personal Care and Well-Being in Arkansas, New Jersey, and Florida
- The Effects of Cash & Counseling on the Primary Informal Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities
- How Cash & Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey
- Center for Personal Assistance Services
- Medicaid Costs Under Consumer Direction for Florida Children with Developmental Disabilities
- The Effect of Cash & Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States
- Enabling Personal Preference: The Implementation of the Cash & Counseling Demonstration in New Jersey
- You Can Do It! A Consumer Guide For Managing Your Own Cash Grant for Household Employees
- The Cash & Counseling Demonstration: An Experiment in Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Services
- The Federal Role in the Move Toward Consumer Direction
- Media Consent Form
- Clarifying the Definition of Personal Care
- Preferences For Consumer-Directed Services Among Different Consumer Groups: Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Early Findings
- IndependentChoices: Family Caregivers and Adults with Disabilities in Arkansas
- Cash & Counseling and Managed Long-Term Care?
- Fiscal/Employer Agent Workshop: Key Elements, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
- Montana's 1915 (c) HCBS Waiver
- Pennsylvania's Cash & Counseling Program Overview Materials
- West Virginia's Aged & Disabled Application Renewal
- West Virginia Personal Options Communications Plan
- Cash & Counseling: Consumer's Early Experiences in Arkansas
- Cash & Counseling: Early Experiences in Arkansas
- Rhode Island's Fiscal/Employer Agent Request for Proposals
- Cash & Counseling Brochure
- Tanya’s Story: One woman’s experience with Florida’s Consumer Directed Care Program
- Paying Family Caregivers: An Effective Policy Option in the Arkansas Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation
- Addressing Liability Issues in Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Services (CDPAS): The National Cash & Counseling Demonstration
- Consumer-Directed Model Training Manual and Handbook
- New Mexico's Fiscal Management Agent Request for Proposals
- New Mexico's Consultant Services Request for Proposals
- Deficit Reduction Act Provisions Relating to Cash & Counseling
- New Mexico's SB 839: The Consumer Direction Act
- Minnesota's Media Kit
- New Jersey's Purchase List
- Cash & Counseling Moves Into the Mainstream
- Implementation Issues for Consumer-Directed Programs: Comparing Views of Policy Experts, Consumers, and Representatives
- From Waiver to Program: The Keys to Operationalizing Waivers
- Rhode Island's Goals Summary Worksheet
- Rhode Island's Quick Start Guide
- Rhode Island's Participant Training and Reference Guide
- Rhode Island's PersonalChoice Functional Assessment
- Rhode Island's PersonalChoice Equipment and Accessibility Assessment
- Rhode Island's PersonalChoice Health Status and Education Needs Assessment
- Cash & Counseling Communications Toolkit
- Florida's Fiscal/Employer Agent RFP
- Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program
- Experiences of Workers Hired Under Cash & Counseling: Findings from Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey
- Assessing the Appeal of the Cash & Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas, New Jersey, and Florida
- History of and Lessons from the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation
- Cash & Counseling Vision Statement
- Retirement Research Foundation
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Designing a Consumer Survey Process
- System of Supports Table
- Using Consumer Surveys for Quality Management: A Modified PES as One Option
- The National Quality Contractor: Technical Assistance to State HCBS Waivers
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About QM Strategies But Were Afraid to Ask
- Rhode Island's Goods and Services List
- New Mexico's Service and Support Plan Review Criteria
- Approaches to Empowering Individuals and Communities
- West Virginia's 1915 (c) Waiver Amendment
- National Clearinghouse for Long-Term Care Information
- Iowa's Marketing Materials
- Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the Florida Consumer Directed Care Program
- Choosing Independence: An Overview of the Cash & Counseling Model of Self-Directed Personal Assistance Services
- Person Centered Planning: Long-term Care
- An Option to Hire Relatives as Caregivers in Two States: Developing an Education and Research Agenda for Policy Decision-Makers
- Iowa's Consumer Choices Option Handbook
- Newsletter Sign Up
- Search Results
- Reducing Nursing Home Use Through Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services
- Case Histories of Six Consumers and Their Families in Cash & Counseling
- Commonalities and Variations in the Cash & Counseling Programs across the Three Demonstration States
- Consumer Enrollment and Experiences in the Cash & Counseling Program
- Designing the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation
- Effects of Cash & Counseling on Personal Care and Well-Being
- How Caregivers and Workers Fared in Cash & Counseling
- How Does Cash & Counseling Affect Costs?
- The Future of Cash & Counseling: The Framers' View
- The Public/Private Partnership behind the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation: Its Origins, Challenges, and Unresolved Issues
- The Research Design and Methodological Issues for the Cash & Counseling Evaluation
- Consultant Training Program
- Qualitative Reports of Consumers and Caregivers in Arkansas, Florida & New Jersey
- Implementation Lessons on Basic Features of Cash & Counseling Programs
- News Report on Rhode Island's Personal Choice Program
- IndependentChoices Cash Expenditure Plan Template
- Arkansas' Enrollment Flowchart
- Arkansas' IndependentChoices Brochure
- Arkansas' IndependentChoices Manual
- Arkansas' IndependentChoices Forms Packets
- Minnesota's You decide. Your help. Video
- Putting the Consumer First: An Introduction and Overview
- Michigan's Fiscal Intermediary Readiness Review Materials
- Consumer Direction and Choice in Long-Term Care for Older Persons, Including Payments for Informal Care: How Can it Help Improve Care Outcomes, Employment and Fiscal Sustainability?
- Beyond Cash & Counseling:The Second Generation of Individual Budget-based Community Long Term Care Programs For the Elderly
- Framework for Analyzing Potential Enrollment Issues/Barriers
- The Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation: Focus Groups Inform Design of a Consumer-Directed Cash Option
- Cash & Counseling Performance Indicators
- Personal Options Brochure
- Personal Options Frequently Asked Questions
- Personal Options Talking Points
- West Virginia Medicaid Aged and Disabled Waiver Program Overview of Personal Options
- Choosing Independence: A Summary of the Cash & Counseling Model of Self-Directed Personal Assistance Services
- Kentucky's Consumer Directed Option Video
- New Mexico's Mi Via Video
- Cash & Counseling 101 Presentation
- Medicaid 101 Presentation
- Pennsylvania's Strategic Communications Plan
- Cash & Counseling: Improving the Lives of Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Need Personal Care or Home and Community-Based Services
- State Comparison Chart
- CMS State Medicaid Director's Letter: Optional Self-Directed Personal Assistance Services (PAS) Program
- Advocacy 101 Webinar
- State Enrollment Challenges Survey
- Cash & Counseling – Supporting Independent Living Webinar
- Government and Vendor F/EA Operations: Key Components, Issues and IRS Update
- Role of Reporting Agents in the Provision of F/EA Services: Advantages, Challenges and Contracting and Evaluation Issues
- CMS Policies Related to the Provision of F/EA Services
- Promising Practices in Providing Workers' Compensation Insurance
- Customer Service Provided by F/EAs: Key Components and Challenges
- F/EA Design and Implementation Issues: State Panel and Open Mike
- Providing and Coordinating Supportive and F/EA Services
- Overview of the Consumer Direction Module
- Key Elements of F/EA Quality Management
- Case Managers’ Perspectives on Consumer Direction
- Michigan's Marketing Materials
- Michigan's Participant Forms
- Michigan's Self Determination Principles
- Michigan's Enrollment Presentation
- Michigan's Participant Survey
- Michigan's Self Determination Technical Advisory: Choice Voucher System
- Michigan's Organizational Readiness Structure
- Facilitating Consumer Partnerships in State Policy and Program Design
- A Counselor's Calling
- State Timesheets
- Vermont's Non-Payroll Reimbursement Request Form
- Leveraging Philanthropic Investments to Advance Policy Change
- Probing Managed Care and Provider Response to Consumer-Directed Services for Elderly Waiver Recipients in Minnesota: Focus Group Report
- Do Consumers get Good Quality Care in a Consumer-Directed Program? Experience from the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation
- Is Consumer Direction Appropriate for Everyone Who Wants It? Experience from the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation
- n4a and Cash & Counseling Webcast
- Does Mental Illness Affect Consumer Direction of Community-Based Care? Lessons from the Arkansas and New Jersey Cash & Counseling Programs
- Comparing Medicaid & Non-Medicaid Environments
- More Can Be Done: Involvement of Older Consumers in the Design, Implementation and Oversight of Home and Community Based Services
- Participant Goal Setting Tool
- The Wallace's
- Aisha's Story
- Kentucky's 1915c Waiver
- Alabama's 1915j State Plan
- Iowa's 1915c Waiver
- Choice Words Newsletter
- Alzheimer's Association
- TA Call: National Participant Network (NPN) Progress
- New Mexico's Service Standards
- Support Broker Job Descriptions
- Does Mental Illness Affect Consumer Direction of Community-Based Care? Lessons from the Arkansas Cash & Counseling Program
- Working With Providers: A Toolkit For States Implementing Cash & Counseling Programs And Consumer-Directed Services
- Beyond Cash & Counseling: An Inventory of Individual Budget-based Community Long-Term Care Programs
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