PCPID Quarterly Meeting: June 16–17, 2011

President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities

June 16, 2011
Audience:
The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)
Topics:
Announcements, Meeting Announcements, Publication (Documents and Resources), Meeting Minutes
Types:
Meeting Minutes, Meeting Announcement

Action items

PCPID staff:

  1. Share the informal notes taken during the meeting with the Committee members.
  2. Convert the meeting transcript into minutes.
  3. Schedule two meeting, via conference call, for July 19, 2011 and August 16, 2011.
  4. Schedule a face-to-face meeting for September 23–24, 2011 or September 26–27, 2011.
  5. Share with the Committee members contact information of the ACF officials responsible for Ethics, Financial Reports and Member Certification, and Travel.
  6. Receive the electronic Copy of the report by AAIDD, Keeping the Promise, from Dr. Dawn Carlson, DoED, and forward that to the Committee members.
  7. Create a template for similar themes/trends/topics discussed during the meeting and receive feedback from the members prior to the next meeting.
  8. Compile all the recommendations included in the Reports to the President (1967–2009) in one single document.

Committee Members:

  1. Submit their travel invoices and receipts to the PCPID Budget Officer within five business days after the meeting.
  2. Receive, from PCPID staff, and read the Report by AAIDD: Keeping the Promise.

Co-Chairs and the Volunteer Workgroup:

Develop a feedback template to solicit Committee members’ preferred themes, trends, and topics by Friday, June 24, 2011.

Themes/Trends/Topics of the 2011 PCPID Report to the President by PCPID Members:

  • Full community participation of people with intellectual disabilities
  • State of self-advocacy
  • Needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages
  • Autism
  • Reaching for public support to realize what people with intellectual disabilities need
  • Issues of family support
  • Employment
  • Transportation
  • Public awareness and the role of the public in supporting employment of people with intellectual disabilities
  • Residential support
  • Independent living
  • Housing
  • Individuals who are not receiving residential supports through Medicaid
  • Number of individuals living in residential settings six and under, nationally
  • The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and long term care
  • Data Collection on the status of people “Outside the System”
  • Challenges related to limited State resources
  • Money following persons with intellectual disabilities
  • Post-Secondary Education (PSE)
  • Pell grants and work-study programs
  • Educational challenges and quality standards
  • Transition (as a broad topic) support for people post age-21
  • Targeted recommendations to curriculum developers
  • Technology/Assistive Technology
  • Communication/applicability for people who do not communicate in traditional style
  • Direct support professionals
  • Skills and attitudes of direct support professionals
  • Managed-care for individuals with intellectual disabilities
  • Road blocks that supporters may create in the way of individuals with intellectual disabilities
  • The impact of loneliness

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