B19 - Achieving Equitable Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities System Funding

Monday, May 1, 2023

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Location: 410, Level 2, LACC

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Relias, LLC and National Council for Mental Wellbeing guarantee this educational conference is free from bias.

Workshop Presenter(s)

Josh Evans, MA (he/him/his)

President & CEO
Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities
Springfield, Illinois

Slides
Beth Owens, DSP, QIDP

Vice President for I/DD Policy
IARF
Springfield, Illinois

Olmstead (ADA) consent decrees are a means to ensure civil rights violations are addressed by state agencies. However, states are often challenged to ensure adequate systems funding for services and supports to address service capacity needs to achieve sustainability. A brief history of our consent decree will set the stage as we examine the crucial importance of Olmstead consent decrees in addressing civil rights violations and establishing expectations for systems changes for state funded I/DD services and supports.

Learning Objectives:

Identify the challenges and shortcomings of consent decrees and additional efforts necessary to sustainably fund systems change.
Obtain strategies tofor obtaining rate studies engineered towards sustainable funding and how to successfully engage state legislatures in committing resources to the consent decree and rate study outcomes.