Alliance
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2011)
Reporting Period: 2011
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Services
Social Achievements
- Focus groups with self-advocates and families to identify system strengths and weaknesses; Developed recommendations for service system improvement.
Governance Achievements
- Established a project steering committee to oversee the Focus on the Future initiative; Convened a workgroup of system stakeholders and subject matter experts to formulate recommendations.
Climate Goals & Targets
Short-term Goals:
- Create online tools to improve system access; Develop increased capacity for behavioral supports; Leverage employment resources; Make person-centered planning happen; Collaborate with education; Identify, gather, and analyze data; Identify and measure meaningful outcomes.
Environmental Challenges
- Complex I/DD service system; Inadequate resource allocation; Lack of person-centered focus; Absence of formal mechanisms for self-directed services; Insufficient data infrastructure for system assessment; lengthy waiting lists for services; limited service access in non-urban areas; low wages for agency staff; limited employment options; shortage of Medicaid providers, particularly in rural areas; limited access to mental health services and dentistry under general anesthesia.
Mitigation Strategies
- Recommendations for waiver consolidation and modernization; Streamlining compliance; Creating online tools to improve system access; Developing increased capacity for behavioral supports; Leveraging employment resources; Implementing person-centered planning; Collaborating with education; Identifying, gathering, and analyzing data; Identifying and measuring meaningful outcomes; Creating/developing a system of coordinated and integrated services and supports; Making self-directed services an option for all services.