That’s fabulous news, Beth, on all accounts! Bravo! And, I will probably borrow a few things of yours.
Have a great weekend.
Pat
Patricia L Maichle
Delaware Developmental Disabilities Council
Margaret M. O’Neill Building, 2nd Floor
410 Federal Street, Suite 2
Dover, DE 19901
Phone: 302.739.2232
Fax: 302.739.2015
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On Behalf Of Swedeen, Beth - BPDD
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 1:30 PM
To: xxxxxx@nacdd.simplelists.com
Subject: DD Councils WI gets supported decision-making, EF, and innovative employment pilot bills passed!
Hi all,
I know we’ve had a lot of challenges in the past year, but wanted to share GOOD NEWS as the WI legislative session wrapped up: our Council was busy going to Governor bill-signings on THREE great bills we worked on:
- Employment First legislation that requires our state agencies to work together and publicly share benchmarks/progress
- Supported Decision-Making that actually has a template form included in the legislation to make the process easier for families to document
- A Partners with Business (using Medicaid to pay co-workers to provide employment supports instead of voc agencies) innovation pilot that actually provided $150,000 over two years directly to our Council
(now the procurement challenges begin!)
Below is a one-pager with links to the legislative language if any of you are interested in borrowing, as well as some of our cool Supported Decision-making resources and a link to an upcoming webinar (we are now doing extensive training
statewide):
http://wi-bpdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/3Bills_WI_Final.pdf
Happy Friday, right?!?
Beth Swedeen,
Executive Director
WI Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
(608) 266-1166
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