DDAWNY MSC/Intake Committee

Meeting Minutes

Date: June 9, 2016

Location: Cantalician Center – TriMain Building

  1. Cantalician Center Employment Services Presentation and Tour
  2. Darren Lisicki (Director of Employment Services) and Melisa Granville (Coordinator of Community Prevocational Services) presented on the services offered:
  3. Community Prevocational Services
  4. 60-70 individuals/day
  5. Biweekly paychecks for individuals
  6. Integrated with refugee population
  7. Transportation Assistance Available – Independence encouraged
  8. There are current openings – contact Melisa – 710-5469 (Fax: 710-5499, email )
  9. Send: ISP, IEP (if applicable), Psychological, Universal App, Physical, Front Door/Service Authorization if you have it (it’s faster if you have it already, but not required).
  10. Encouraged to set up a tour first to see if it’s a good fit.
  11. Supported Employment
  12. Have some locations where staff is on site working with individuals (transition from CPV to independent community employment)
  13. Transportation Assistance Available for these locations
  14. Pathways to Employment
  15. Compliance and MSC Collaboration
  16. Sherri McMeans was not able to make it today and will report via email or next meeting.
  17. MSC/Residential/Day Program Collaboration
  18. Chairs from these committees are meeting 6/13/16 to see if there’s anything that can be done to improve processes
  19. CAS Roll Out
  20. CAS staff have been visiting agencies to explain the process. Agencies are getting calls now that individuals have been selected. All have been individuals in IRAs so far.
  21. PCP Regulations
  22. We are asking that everyone bring their assessment tools to the August meeting to share
  23. We discussed how people are meeting with the individual the month before the ISP meeting to talk about PCP and do assessments. Some are doing it via phone. For children, people are mostly doing this with parents. Some have chosen not to focus on children at this point. Some are doing formal assessments and others are not.
  24. We discussed if anyone is doing sign offs for hab providers for the ISPs and only Heritage and Cantalician are doing this at this point. Neither are chasing after hab providers to sign, just showing that they sent it to be signed.
  25. We discussed where people are documenting that the individual chose where and when the ISP meeting is – all but one agency is doing this in the case notes. The other agency puts it in the ISP.
  26. Agency updates:
  27. DQI Audits are continuing across the region. Best of luck to all!
  28. FSS Letters are going to be sent separately from the Front Door since it is not a waiver service in order to stop holding up those services while waiting for waiver approval.
  29. Southeast Works has openings:
  30. Community Prevoc
  31. Copay for transportation applies
  32. Contact Laurie Sojka – 683-7100 ext. 253
  33. Respite Bed (1)
  34. Recreational Respite
  35. Transportation not provided to and from respite
  36. Contact Chris Parisi – 683-7100 ext. 229
  37. Cantalician Center has openings:
  38. Day Hab Without Walls
  39. Contact Alicia McCourt – 901-8907
  40. Transitioning students
  41. Some are still waiting for service authorization from the Front Door
  42. There is confusion among all regarding whether MSCs should be reaching out to agencies regarding openings and sending information about individuals before service authorization is received. It has been hard for agencies to receive information a week or two before graduation and be able provide services right away. Additionally, students are missing out on possibilities of “shadowing” or “trying out” services. It was suggested that this committee invite DDRO Transition staff to a meeting in the fall to discuss how we can all best serve the transitioning students for 2017.
  43. Upcoming Meetings:
  44. August 12th – Aspire of WNY on North Forest
  45. October 14th – BVS on Ridge Road
  46. December - TBD