Medicaid

Title:
"The Medicaid Reference Desk: A Web-Based Information Resource for Adults and Children with Developmental Disabilities, Families, Service Brokers, Service Providers, and Policymakers"

Abstract:
The Medicaid Reference Desk Project continues the design and implementation of an interactive website to provide people with developmental disabilities, their families, and others with timely, accurate state and national level information on Medicaid services. The project will serve as a nationwide resource by providing research, translation, and audio/video recording of comprehensive Medicaid information for each state and territory. The website will build upon its cognitively accessible format by:

• Providing current state-specific Medicaid services information, including printable resource sheets, in everyday language.
• Offering a cognitively accessible, person-centered planning module that will allow a person with a developmental disability and/or family member to produce a "proposed list" for their service coordinator of the services in their state that they want to become independent.
• Disseminating information about the project to a variety of audiences through an on-line annual briefing book and printable brochures.
• Showcasing an expanding collection of stories that communicate in everyday language the constructive experiences of people with developmental disabilities benefiting from Medicaid funding to create options and choices in their lives.

Institute:
The Arc of the United States
1010 Wayne Avenue
Suite 650
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 565-3842

Contact:
Elbert Johns
(812) 323-0626
(812) 323-0726 FAX
E-mail Address: ejohns@thearclink.org

Period:
9/30/04 - 9/29/07

Funding:
$300,000/year

Project Officer:
Katherine Cargill-Willis
E-mail Address: katherine.cargill-Willis@acf.hhs.gov
202-690-5791

Project #:
90DN0186