Medicaid

Title:
"The Medicaid Reference Desk is a tool to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities find out what Medicaid can offer them" - URL: http://www.thedesk.info

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 U.S.
1660 L St., N.W. Ste 301
Washington, DC 20036

Contact:
Ann Caldwell, Ph.D.
Phone: 202 534-3711
Fax: 202 534-3731
E-mail Address: Caldwell@thearc.org

Period:
9/30/2007 - 9/29/2012

Funding:
$150,000/year

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

Project #:
90DN0215