Carol,
When I mentioned pre-vocational services I was meaning the service
category that is allowed under CMS guidance as a Medicaid reimbursable employment support service.
I think it can be provided in various ways as long as it (now) aligns with the new HCBS rules for integrated settings.
That’s what we are looking at anyway.
Tracy
Tracy Warren, Idaho Council on
Developmental Disabilities
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New Hampshire has legislation pending to remove from our statutes authority to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage. I am not familiar with the terminology pre-vocational
services. Is that another term for sheltered workshop or is that a different type of program? Even before the legislative initiative our State’s developmental services agency took the position that a sheltered workshop did not meet the standard for a day service,
and that if families were participating they were doing so as a private choice not supported by the government. There was some question about what was actually happening, but we have been assured that no agencies or employers in our state are currently engaged
in the practice.
Carol
Carol
Stamatakis, Esq.
Executive Director
NH Council on Developmental Disabilities
2 ½ Beacon Street, Suite
10
Concord, NH 03301-4447
Telephone: (603) 271-3236
FAX: (603) 271-1156
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Hi,
Responding to the CMS Home and Community Based Services Rule on integrated settings, how does your state propose to deal with sheltered workshops or pre-vocational services in your state’s transition plan?
Thanks,
Ed
Ed
Holen
Executive Director
Developmental Disabilities Council
1-800-634-4473