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Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) Activities
The Quality Assurance and Improvement
Committee
A Quality Assurance and Improvement Committee (QAIC) will be established to improve the delivery of employment related support services for individuals with disabilities. The Quality Assurance (QA) team would consist of reviewers/interviewers and a stakeholders group. Reviewers would interview agencies and organizations that provide employment related services to persons with disabilities and family members then report their findings to the stakeholders group for evaluation and to generate solutions. Once the evaluation process has been completed, the reviewers will then work with the programs to implement change by providing specific action steps and monitoring their progress.
The Disability Workforce Coalition
The DC DWC will involve representatives from the public and private sector to develop strategies that will enable persons with disabilities to pursue employment without losing their health benefits. These strategies will involve working with the Business Leadership Network to create jobs for persons with disabilities, involving the Chamber of Commerce to conduct outreach and training to employers on incentives available to their business for making accommodations and hiring persons with disabilities, delivering trainings to One Stop center staff about how to access the supports available through agencies and organizations and detailing innovative approaches that the One Stops can implement to better serve persons with disabilities.
Public Information Campaign focused on Transition Services
The public information campaign to families of youth with special needs will include the development of a guidebook for families in making decisions about the service needs of their son or daughter and developing action steps for receiving those services. One hundred families will be selected to refine the guidebook while they are offered intensive assistance on using the guidebooks for their son or daughter. This campaign will be complemented with a research component that will assess the progress of families who receive guidebooks in taking actions and effectively getting needed services with families who did not receive guidebooks.