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2020
Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services
- Extension for Stateline funding changes (08/06/2020)
- Your input is needed - BQIS statewide perspectives on practices (07/16/2020)
- DDRS state funded services and program changes (07/13/2020)
- New Electronic Visit Verification Resource Available (06/08/2020)
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Task Force agenda (05/15/2020)
- DDRS Advisory Council May meeting canceled; Save the date for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Task Force (05/12/2020)
- DDRS Advisory Council April meeting canceled; Provider and case manager webinar scheduled (04/09/2020)
- FSSA launches Hoosiers Serving Hoosiers service to connect job seekers with ways to support Hoosiers needing direct support services and child care (03/30/2020)
- Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services offices to close to the public to protect the health and safety of clients and staff (03/20/2020)
- 2019 novel coronavirus (03/10/2020)
- Reminder – DDRS Advisory Council Meeting (01/13/2020)
- State of the State American Sign Language livestream (01/13/2020)
Bureau of Developmental Disability Services
- BDDS online application for services and systems modernization (08/28/2020)
- BDDS day service sustainability grant: Fourth cycle announcement (08/24/2020)
- Indiana Direct Support Professional Training: Core A and Core B, Curriculum 2020 (08/18/2020)
- New training opportunity – Enhancing person centered outcomes through the LifeCourse Framework (08/07/2020)
- Third cycle day services sustainability grant announcement (07/27/2020)
- Day habilitation and behavior support services (07/16/2020)
- Second Grant Cycle Application for BDDS Day Service Sustainability Grants Now Available (July 6, 2020)
- Waiver renewal fact sheets available (07/01/2020)
- BDDS Day Service Sustainability Grant: First Cycle deadline approaching (06/24/2020)
- Waiver renewals announcement (06/23/2020)
- BDDS COVID-19 updates and activities (04/28/2020)
- BDDS COVID-19 updates and activities (04/17/2020)
- Weekly provider and case manager webinars scheduled (04/15/2020)
- Updates to COVID-19 reporting in congregate residential settings supported by BDDS (04/15/2020)
- COVID-19 reporting in congregate residential settings supported by BDDS (04/10/2020)
- Virtual 2020 Train-the-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration webinar (04/09/2020)
- Notice of extension on waiver renewals (04/07/2020)
- BDDS COVID-19 updates and activities (04/06/2020)
- Cancellation of the Train-the-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration training session (03/12/2020)
- Change in format for upcoming waiver redesign feedback sessions (03/10/2020)
- Waiver redesign FAQ (03/06/2020)
- March opportunities to learn more about the Waiver Redesign Initial Concept Paper (03/03/2020)
- Provider feedback sessions available (03/03/2020)
- Waiver redesign flyer now available (02/26/2020)
- Position announcement: Director of Home- and Community-Based Services (02/25/2020)
- Virtual listening session - BDDS Waiver Redesign Initial Concept Paper (02/24/2020)
- Waiver Redesign Meeting Toolkit now available (02/20/2020)
- February opportunities to learn more about the Waiver Redesign Initial Concept Paper (02/17/2020)
- Train-the-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration training March registration (02/13/2020)
- Building Bridges: Supporting families and self-advocates through engagement(02/04/2020)
- Self-advocate and family feedback sessions (02/03/2020)
- BDDS Waiver Redesign Initial Concept paper – Executive Summary Release (01/17/2020)
- Upcoming BDDS Waiver Redesign Initial Concept Paper feedback opportunities (01/09/2020)
- BDDS Waiver Redesign Initial Concept Paper – public comment request (01/07/2020)
- REMINDER - Building Bridges: Supporting families and self-advocates through engagement (01/02/2020)
Bureau of Quality and Improvement Services
- Transition of quality contract to Liberty of Indiana (06/30/2020)
- New Bureau of Quality Improvement Services quality contractor (06/03/2020)
- Provider reverification process rollout (02/12/2020)
- Provider Reverification Process (formerly titled Reapproval) (01/09/2020)
First Steps
- Upcoming changes to the First Steps program (05/26/2020)
- Public comment: Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Vocational Rehabilitation employment service provider training contractor (06/30/2020)
- Charting the LifeCourse webinar opportunities (04/01/2020)
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services order of selection update (02/04/2020)
2019
- 2020 Train-the-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration trainings (12/09/2019)
- Building Bridges: Supporting Families and Self-Advocates through Engagement (11/20/2019)
- Public Notice Regarding Renewal of the Community Integration and Habilitation Waiver and Family Supports Waiver (11/13/2019)
- Incident Reporting – Data, requirements and best practices (10/29/2019)
- Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services staff announcement (10/28/2019)
- Policy notice: Reimbursement of out of state travel (10/09/2019)
- Governor Holcomb proclaims Oct. 3, 2019, First Steps Day (10/03/2019)
- Provider documentation for the mortality review process (10/02/2019)
- Data Forum: Incident Reporting webinar rescheduled (09/24/2019)
- Priority category for military families added to Family Supports Waiver (09/24/2019)
- Data Forum: Incident Reporting – Data, requirements and best practices (09/06/2019)
- Incident Reports in BDDS Portal (09/05/2019)
- Train-the-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration (08/15/2019)
- Caregiver Support Services Application Process (07/23/2019)
- Reminder: HCBS non-residential transition plan content (07/22/2019)
- Stakeholder Survey Opportunity (07/09/2019)
- Comunicación de la encuesta (07/09/2019)
- Building Bridges: Supporting Families and Self-Advocates through Engagement (07/02/2019)
- Data Forum: Investigations – Data, requirements and best practices webinar ( 06/07/2019)
- Complimentary training opportunity: The CMS HCBS Rule: It’s All About the Person (05/28/2019)
- Train-the-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration July 2019
- Living in the Community: Medication Administration Manual
- Request for Funding: 2019-08 (05/10/2019)
- Public comment notice (05/08/2019)
- DDRS Stakeholder May Quarterly Meeting presentation available (05/03/2019)
- DDRS Stakeholder Quarterly Meeting – webinar link (04/24/2019)
- HCBS Providers Non-Residential Site Assessment Remediation Plan Responses and Webinar (04/22/2019)
- Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver Redesign Project Kick-off (04/12/2019)
- HCBS providers non-residential site assessment remediation plan responses and webinar (04/01/2019)
- HCBS non-residential site assessment remediation plan responses webinar for families and stakeholders (04/01/2019)
- Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver Redesign Project for BDDS (03/20/2019)
- March 18, 2019 stakeholder webinar (03/18/2019)
- Using the LifeCourse to Create Strength-Based Outcomes workshop (03/18/2019)
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services online claims payment system go live (03/12/2019)
- LifeCourse conference (03/07/2019)
- Building Bridges: Supporting Families and Self-Advocates through Engagement (03/04/2019)
- Save the Date - May Stakeholder Quarterly Meeting (03/04/2019)
- Clarification of 40 hour rule for family caregivers (02/22/2019)
- Train-the-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration - March (01/29/2019)
- DDRS Stakeholder Quarterly Meeting presentation available (01/25/2019)
- Vocational Rehabilitation assessment survey – reminder (01/23/2019)
- Case Management Rate Study Final Report (01/14/2019)
- 2019 Train-The-Trainer Core A/B Medication Administration Trainings (01/14/2019)
2018