e e good morning and greetings everyone I want to go ahead and let you know this meeting is going to be recorded with that said I've just added the record button and we are Live on
YouTube so again thank you for making our Workshop today on opwdd and Family Support Services I'm Christy Angel uh the CCD 75 co-president and the Outreach chair for our committee additionally we have christe monan who is here who is
our vice president and she is also the co-chair for our Outreach committee the Highlight that we have we're pleased to welcome Jackie Trot from the New York State Institute on disability and she's a treasure Trove of information and she'll be walking us through a lot today
so what we want you to know is this information is available online and for everyone who has registered you will receive copies of information and they will be distributed in the chat additionally this meeting does have
interpretation so as we are starting the meeting at 11:05 a I would like to give the floor over to our Spanish interpreters for instructions Spanish you may begin Bonito good morning everyone uh the following message will be Spanish
offering interpretation services for thank you thank you so much Mandarin may now give your uh instructions [Music] theing announcement is
finished thank you so much without further Ado we will give over the floor to Jacqueline Trot from New York State Institute for disability thank you again good morning everyone thank you so much for having me today I do have a
PowerPoint that I'd like to see I don't know if Chris I could should share my screen or if you want to put it up through on your you're free to share all right so I have to um technology is not my forte but I can absolutely um try and
see if I do have your um all of the slides that you gave me did you give me the PowerPoint as well I did I sent you the Powerpoint this morning hold on one second I downloaded the slides but I think I might have missed the actual PowerPoint I have the I have it on my
screen but I'm not um let me see do that is that on there uh give me one second I was looking at it says you started screen sharing but it's not showing as of
yet oh there we go we I see it now yes okay so now I just have to figure out how to move it forward but we we will figure it out as we go one of the beauties of um this world is we're constantly learning and educating ourselves on how to do new things
anyway I am Jackie trapo I am first and foremost the parent of a young man who has teral py and multiple disabilities my son Joseph uh is 31 years old he was a student at ps37r which I'm very very
proud to say is hisum which was a district 75 school he's currently living in a residential opportunity where he lives his own life The Filling life and um literally kicked me out of his room last week because his twin sister went
to visit him and Mommy wasn't welcome so I do have some experience in the world of disabilities and I'm fortunate enough to have two hats where I am the New York State Institute on disability and the associate program director where we re
provide reimbursement and other Family Support Services um I also happened to our hat as a family worker at a district 725 School ps37r where we can try and share information with families as well so again thank you so very much for having me today um I'd like to start
with what is you know opwdd if you do not know what it is opwdd is the entity that provides supports and services to individuals with developmental disabilities throughout their lifetime it can be from a could start as early as
birth um although at Birth most birth to three most families are getting early intervention services through the city of New York but opwdd does have have mechanisms in place for that as well to serve individuals there's ages three and
up to you know lifetime opwdd provides supports and services in a different way so today what we're going to focus on are the Family Support Services so it starts with eligibility um most in okay I don't know how I can
change I think if you press the enter button or the um you see at the bottom there you go see I'm learning thank youcome so we're gonna start with this is pretty much um the information that I'd like to share with you today what is
you know op New York State office for developmental disabilities opwdd you hear a lot of acronyms they you need eligibility to get those Services unlike the Department of Education where you have faith which is the free appropriate
public education entitlement opwdd Services of based on eligibility an individual must be deemed eligible to receive these services so eligibility how it starts you have to submit paperwork you have to submit
documentation yes you have a child to in District 75 it's been designated that they have a need however opwdd needs to have documentation they need full reports
they need psychological psychosocial they need Medicals they need their IEPs so it's a process to get opwdd eligibility and typically from 3 to eight an individual may be deemed
provisional eligibility I'll give an example my daughter um my twins were born prematurely they were a little more than a pound when they were born and they suffered from severe developmental Del both of them both of them received
Services literally from the time they came home from the hospital so you know five years old all of a sudden my daughter really started she caught up she no longer needed the services from opwdd by the time she was six or seven years old so she was no longer eligible
after a certain age so that said opwdd from usually three is when they start 3 to8 most families individuals are going to receive provisional El that doesn't mean that's not the exception to the rule you may have an
individual whose needs are so um so in I don't I'm trying to be politically correct but that there may be more significant needs that make it full eligibility it depends on the individual it's individual so up until 8
you might get provisional eligibility then at 8 you start to do the process to get full eligibility in any event once you get eligibility and you live at home with your family you're now eligible for
opwdd Family Support Services and that's what I'm want to talk about today after8 you may start to apply for Medicaid waiver services but from 3 to8 what's been going on it's not it's not you know always for everybody there were
different circumstances everybody's case is individual that an individual doesn't get involved in a med Medicaid waiver program the Medicaid waiver programs are rest Community Hab those are the types
of medic waiver programs that an individual can start so let's just start with opw eligibility and how do you start you start with contacting a care coordination organization um these are
the three that Ser serve Staten Island Brooklyn Bon all five burs Manhattan Queens um you need to contact one of these care coordination organizations let them know that you're looking to get eligibility for opwdd
services for your child they're going to tell you exactly what you need to submit the documents the psychological the psychosocial the medical um if your child is diagnosed with in um the autism spectrum perhaps an which is an
autistic diagnostic um test that needs to be so I just want to start with that I'm going to catch my breath and I don't know if you want me to take questions in between uh or if anybody has anything
that I confuse anybody about up until this point because my point I want to try and just make this as simple um and stressfree although we have children in Special Needs I don't think there's such a thing um to share
information they did ask Jackie if you could check or improve the quality of your microphone for interpretation purposes are you able to come closer to the mic or maybe turn it up or something that nature um I I have no idea how to
do that but I will is that any better I hear you okay uh Bonito is this is it is it better for you little bit okay let's try okay I'll I'll try yeah I mean I may just need to be a little closer to it
sorry okay we have one question for you Jack what do you do if your CCO isn't taking new cases okay you can transfer it to another CCO So currently Tri County care is on a
pause they're on a pause opwdd has um indicated that um a few months ago so they cannot take new cases so you can contact another CCO ACA Advanced Care Alliance they are
processing new intakes I believe care design is also processing new intakes I'm not sure if they have a weight list or not it's worth it a shot to try calling both of them you would also when you talk to them they're going to tell you about the front door videos that you
would do these are all steps to taking opwdd eligibility and as I said opwdd eligibility is that that you can be eligible and most importantly for the Family Support Services your individual needs to live live at home with a nonp
paid caregiver um so with a non-paid caregiver what that means is that if the family member receives CV PA services and payments they're not eligible for family support
reimbursement they can access other services but not the reimbursement so just so that everybody is clear CVP if it's a family member who receives that payment the individual would not be
eligible for reimbursement but they may be eligible for other family support tips so what are Family Support Services it's here to provide programs and supports to individuals to keep their individuals living at home that's this
is where this came from so that we can keep our individuals living at home not have them going into residential placements or anything like that because of a financial hardship for families to be able to care for their loved ones you
must establish opwdd eligibility that's the first in forms you cannot access anything through opwdd without that eligibility whether it be provisional or full eligibility in a likelihood families especially of young children
are receiving right now provisional eligibility again that does not mean that other families cannot get full eligibility if the dean if the individ idual deemed to have the necessary supports and that's all in your reports what I will say if you're going for
evaluations and you are asked a question during the assessments about what your child can and cannot do what I'd like family members to keep in mind and this is the best advice I was ever given and I'm going to share it with you is that if you have to say yes
but then it should be know if it a yes but then it should be no because the whole point of the question is that the individual can do something independently if it's independent they
there should be no but it should be my son can can Joey put on his leg braces I could say well yeah but what they hear is yes yeah but I have to tell them that I have to fix his Orthotics I have to make sure that they fit right that they're aligned the right way and and
make sure the straps are tighten he can't do that independently he needs my assistance so if your child needs assistance this is what's important when you're doing these assessments um as the principal 37 likes to say this is not the time to take out that black book to
talk about how wonderful are children are because don't get us wrong children are wonderful but when you're doing your assessments to get opwdd services or any Services they want to know the real deal on what support your children need and if you have to say yes but it should be
know this is my experience um as you can tell by the wrinkles around my face I've been doing this quite some time um an individual does not need to be enrolled in Medicaid waiver or have Medicaid to
access most Family Support Services um if they are enrolled in opwdd waer Services they can receive different Services through um opwdd The W resit programs home
modification that's St through adapt parent training some Clinical Services some families can get additional OT or PT services at home in addition to your mandated IEP Services again you do not need to be
enrolled or night nice provides the services who do not have Medicaid we can do the crisis management we do evaluations for individuals who do not have Medicaid who are trying to get opwp Services because I was like okay where do I get the evaluations from opwdd will
give you a list or care coordination will give you a list ahrc is on there Yi is on there you can go to cusac you know there are many many places that you can access it if you do not have Medicaid or if you do have Medicaid so there there
are two different lists um some agencies like NIS has a contract to provide the services for individuals who do not have so we can do those free evaluations we can help send you the reports to help with the establishment
of opwdd Eligibility and opwdd eligibility can take three to six months it doesn't happen overnight it is a process and I tell families to please it's worth the process if you start now see what you need and as your children
get older it it rol over into dat services employment services individuals who live either in a residence or live independently with the support even that self-direction that everybody likes to talk about and you know so these are
some of the things so you do not need that does anybody have any questions about this I have the link on this PowerPoint and I did share it um chrisy you can absolutely share the PowerPoint I have you know I'm all about share share that's fair okay put it out there
um so there's the link there that explains what Family Support Services are as per opw they right to their link but in order for a family to get opw DB Family Support Services they must be deemed eligible and live at home with a
non-paid family member or caregiver so even if they live with Mom Dad Grandma Grandpa andun Uncle whoever that family that's the family unit that they reside with they can have the um receive opw the eligibility and there are the
different programs whether if they have Medicaid waiver or or don't have Medicaid either way you can receive as long as of Eligibility you could receive with services in each burrow um there is a developmental disabilities Council I
encourage you all whichever County you reside in to please reach out to them see what information they have just like this District 75 City's white Council has information and presenters and this
is a wonderful resource when my son was younger we did not have internet we did not have Facebook we did not have any other ways other than going to these meetings and going through my local Council I was able to get a lot of information that provided my son with a
lot of supports so here are the contact information in each County they have monthly meetings they set up different agendas to see where um the needs are you know there's a in each County there's also a family support advisory Council that
really talks about what the Family Support Services are the monies that are allocated what what are the priorities you know there's recently been conversation about a priority a new request for proposal they call them the rfps for different services that there
are funds available for agencies to tap in you know what do you need at home as family members you know here we are in a 4-day weekend um many of our families are like oh my God I have four days where what am I doing what are we doing how are we doing this what the this can
be wonderful information for you to tap into now Family Support Services is a full gamut you have services that don't require Medicaid or Medicaid waiver you do have services that have Medicaid waor a lot of the uh family support respit
programs many many years ago were transitioned into a Medicaid waiver program so right now families who are getting family support um opwdd eligibility their ages 3 to eight the state is telling them well go access
your family support services um what's really disappointing is that most of the programs down state in the five borrows were waivered many years ago so families because they're not getting enrolled in the waiver right away and they're being
told to use Family Support Services to get the the West fit and all that that there's minimal opportunities for that so I sent attached here is a list um and I believe um the Brooklyn Council has
this as a link I think they had all the guides but every burrow has their own guide of supports and services that's provided with family uh family support so so I encourage you to check your your family support guide within your county and see
now if you have any questions and you don't know who to contact UM every County um has a family support um coordinator they call them they're in the disab developmental disability regional office the DD you I
don't know if youve heard that term or that heard that term these are the contacts so when you're looking to get information or if you a question about something that's related to family support in your burrow these are the people that you could reach out to this
is public information I'm not sharing any state Secrets this is on the websites we and every single one of these individuals the ladies um are extremely helpful they're knowledgeable they if they don't have the answers they
try to help you get the answers just to know what's in your county that you could access so they you can call up you know Crystal the Bronx and say you know Crystal I'm trying to find out how do I get you know a respit program she may tell you what's what she knows who she
has available who has um parent contracts or she can and she'll defer you um a good chance to the disability Council or the Family Support advisory Council because they're in the know but these are your state representatives that you can reach out to for for
questions so I wanted to make sure that you all had that information the loan is Janet Davis is in Manhattan and Staten Island so now she's got both those counties and every they are extremely um kind to get information for you so I
wanted to make sure that I gave you that information as well um just a a quick but before I go on did anybody have um any questions or anything did I you know go too fast for anybody did you know was
I un clear on something because I really want to make sure that as we along I don't have people like scratching their heads saying what you say what huh that doesn't make sense Jackie we do have one question in the chat it says what is
reimbursable for family for FSS for Family Support Services and what isn't allowed okay I actually Christie sent you that list um it's an allowable non-allowable list if you want to put that into the chat we actually do have
the um FSS um ADM not the ADM it's the allowable and non-allowable it is I can uh repost it again yes okay now that particular the list um it started in March of
2021 and what had happened it's a evolved March 2021 or 2022 March 2022 um and it's evolved um it's the most recent update has been as of June 10th 2024 that's what you have there um
um they have a whole there's three pages there's one page of allowable and there are two page of non-allowable now what was once allowable um Furniture different things like that are no longer allowable the state is um very clear on
the documentation that needs to be in place so that you can get What's um what's there it's about what costs of being incurred because your child has a developmental disability it's not well you're entitled to these 3ou it's a
$3,000 Max for a reimbursement per fful year it's not that you're you know oh good I get $3,000 I can you know just get my kid clothes because they out Gren well if your kid didn't have a disability and they out grew them you have to buy your kid clothes and that's
really that's the reality however if you have to buy your child clothes I have a son with several fers when he feeds himself he's got a food oil and just yesterday I picked him up he had his launch all over him um you know he's 31
he's not wearing a bid but with trying to work on him for coordination his clothes have to be washed frequently I have to constantly Buy in shirts this is an expense that I have incurred because my son has a has a developmental disability the point of reimbursement is
that you get reimbursed for expenses that you've incurred as a result of your child's developmental disability I mean it could include classes like karate swimming dance so that because if you have a child who needs assistance with those G motor and fine motor skills or
if you have a child that needs in um to to socialize because the socialization is a big piece of what the developmental disability diagnosis is so just keep in mind that the state isn't just going to say you know sure here's money here's stay dollars because you know your kid
has a disability what they're saying is that because your child has a disability youve ENC these charges we want to help you but we need to know why we need to know how and we need to document that because these are State dollars so the
list includes you know different things you know we they just brought back noise cancelling ear coverings the headphones um three months ago they were not allowable now as of June online now it's six okay seven 10 months ago they were
not allowable I forget that we in October already in June it became allowable so these are going to be constantly updated the paperwork that I gave I have a list a link to the Family Support Services that you can access all
of this information as well it is public knowledge um I hope that answers the question about the allowable and non-allowable um and I'm going to just go on to what nice it offers our free home evaluation in home evaluation are
done in the Bronx Brooklyn Queens and Staten Island we cannot provide the evaluations in Manhattan our contract has not include Manhattan we do crisis Management Services we can do that in the Bronx working and queens you
cannot do that in Manhattan or Staten Island again our contract is not cover that reimbursement can be done in all five ARS it could be reimbursements of goods Services it could be reimbursement for wfit services and it could be
reimbursement for camp services and I have documentation that we can share um how that breaks down on what documents are needed as well we can do our Recreation outings tickets these are this is such a fun thing that we have
and it's Unique to niid as part of the Family Support Services when the state is telling families who have just provisional eligibility they do not have Medicaid waiver they're telling you to access um Family Support Services for
rest fit or something this is one of the few things that we can give you that you know a many agencies don't we have uh sports and recreation tickets and our sports and recreation tickets I also included that document um with chrisy to
to submit of the choice of venues we get tickets to certain venues the Bron Zoo um the um the Intrepid actually they just got that new uh plane so that should be kind of exciting soon in March that you can go to museum in Natural
History the wax museum you know different Prospect Park Zoo Queen Zoo different events like we have season tickets to book Nets book Cyclones these are services that we could offer in Bronx Brooklyn Queens and
Staten Island unfortunately we cannot provide that in the this is also something um that if you need it's going to go into we can provide transportation to and from the venue at no cost to you or your family
to go so please keep in mind that it is Bronx book queens and Staten Island that we can provide these tickets your individual cannot have self-direction for the service because self-direction families have fun available to do
different things whereas families who do more traditional services or just basic Services they don't so n does not offer self-direction services for prices Recreation or Transportation if you have
self-direction we can help you with a reimbursement and we can get into that later our transportation services are also available for individuals who reside in Brooklyn Bronx and Staten Island they can take you to medical appointments in Manhattan so my son goes
to NYU Dental to get to the city to park to it's it's an expensive day when he lived at home I was able to access these Services Transportation would bring us door too I didn't have to think twice about where I was in the park they dropped this work right in front they
came back when our appointment was over it's no cost so these are transportation services that n offers in the Bronx Brooklyn and Staten Island if you cens and we give you tickets we can provide you transportation to and from that
particular venue but that's the only time we can provide transportation in Queens we cannot do it in Manhattan either so in Manhattan we can only do reimbursement for goods and services and these are contracts that have been set up for years that are in place and we we
just go forward with that does anybody have any questions about the niid services that are available checking the chat for you now while I check the chat can we check in with our uh Mandarin and Spanish interpreters to
see if we have any questions on that side and please do refer to the chat as M Trot moves through um each guide and resources I am sending the companion PDF with it please don't feel overwhelmed uh this is just access to read along or to
have with you now we will also make sure all of these items are emailed out and are accessible to you um Spanish and Mandarin do we have any questions on your lines there are no questions in the Spanish line at this time okay we have no questions in the chat do we have any
questions on the Mandarin line no question for the Ming line also okay Jackie you have the floor you may continue thank you so much I've included some resource links that I know when you have a moment I'm going to have you
review them there is there is the opwdd main website that'll give you you know you're going to get blasted with information the front door that's something needed um not mandated anymore
they encourage you to see the front door videos um and I would recommend that it's something worth looking at so that you can get an idea of what soes opwdd has to offer your child once they have eligibility um again the Family Support Service link to give you a little bit of
a background about it the guidelines for opwdd reimbursement this was the new administrative memo that came out um that really changed the dynamic of reimbursement so many families may have been like oh I used to be able to put in
for clothes every year and I'd get back and now I have to do justifications and I have to do all of this so just understand these are the guidelines there's information about resfit services so if you have overnight respit or you need overnight respit my son used
to go um to ahrc is overnight respit that's how we started to transition him to go live independently and live in a residence and it was very helpful for him and myself um I'm not sure if they re are still in place you you might want to just check the Family Support guide
or contact the the different agencies but um there are um programs that are available to help you so some families that got the B there's a hospitalization for somebody who lives at home and you we need to make sure that our child Lov one they care for but
there's no one there there are these types of services um there's Crisis Prevention Services that if the family is crisis and you know some children have a hard time coping and dealing with things and you know we the word Behavior comes up a lot you know these are
different resources um one of the other ones parents parent New York state has a family support contract that provides support to families they have many support groups they have actually a a Chinese speaking support group they have
a dad support group they have a support group for individuals considering the residency they have a support group of individuals who have children who are teenagers this is a network of of information that really can be very helpful when my son was younger parent
to parent I was able to speak to another mom who had a child with Cal poliy and she was able to really help me through a very difficult time when I was trying to cope with my son needing all this equipment am I going to put this equipment in the house what am I going
to do how am I going to do this and it really just gave me something and it's I I need to share it with you because they are such a resource of information and there's so such so many compassionate people they match you with a parent who has um an individual who has similar
disabilities or maybe something that you're going through they have different um networking information and presentations so you know these links I'd like to make sure that you have so that this way you know when you have the
time not that many families do but usually it's like at one o'clock in the morning when you finally quiet and you're like yeah what do I what do I need to do these could be hopefully um some helpful ones to you so I have a frequently asked
questions because um I know I've been on another of these zooms that people they know the question but they don't know the question should I ask this question I don't know so I put it out there for you um one of the first things that comes up is that people want to know how
long did the reimbursement process take um well that depends upon the agency that's receiving the required documentation when you're doing a reimbursement you need to have all of the documentation that an agency is requiring to do so I did include niage
requirements um and most it's these are the same things for most agencies U most importantly you're going to need the opwdd application filled out um for ni we asked you to fill out the ND reimbursement request one because
that answers questions that we have to answer to the state it needs to have a justification whether or not if it's clothing or sensory items you may need a clinical justification so that justification needs to be in place you need the
finalized individual's life plan that includes why that individual is looking for reimbursement how is it related to the disability is the program that you're choos in whether it be nice St age or C absp whomever is providing that
reimbursement for you adap they are they listed in the life form I sent that checklist as well that's something that we can add to the chat uh what we need the receipts that are dated within the current fiscal year that has to be part
of the packet so all that said and done once an agency has all the required documents they then meet with a committee a family support advisory um that family support committee that reviews all the applications that meeting has to be scheduled the information has to be entered upon a
Tracker that has to be then submitted to the state the state then has to review it I can tell you from personal experience it could take six to 12 weeks or if everything and then you know the Ducks are all lined up and you know all the stars and moons are aligned it could
happen within four weeks but you need to make sure so the process for reimbursement can take some time or it can be quickly depending upon the information that's submitted to each agency um families asked can I apply for reimbursement more than once the answer
is yes you can apply for as many times as needed within a current fiscal year as long as you don't go beyond the maximum $3,000 that's allowed per fiscal year we are recommending that you try to stick with one agency and not Chop
around for every you know I'm going to go to adap I'm going to go to nice it I'm going to submit these because the state has to make sure what you're getting so if you have to they have to check every agency then that's going to Pro long the reimbursement what is the
fiscal year um down state within the five BS our fiscal year is July 1st to June 30th so for example this year it's July 1st 2024 to July 2025 June 2025 on this SP that's our fiscal year all the
receipts must be dated within the current fiscal year preferably within 90 days of the purchase so that we can provide the reimbursement um and then they ask can I be reimbursed for a purchase I made last B SCH Year
I'll tell you this is the hardest part because families make purchases on June 30th or June 28th and then they figure okay I'll put the application in July 1 started a new fiscal year we would not be able to do that
reimbursement and so that you know when you get close to the end of June July that's where it's a fuzzy line for some families to not understand like what I haveen until June 30th the state we have to agency has to process the application it has to get in so it's
truly you know you want to get your applications in prior to at least by June 15th in order to get that process to June 30th because remember when I said about eligibility opportunity and funding if by the end of the fiscal year and gency no longer has that funding
available you're not going to get the reimbursement so just for that to keep in mind um is there an appeals process for denied application because we have applications that have been submitted um that have been denied and yes there is
you can peal with the uh contacting your family support coordinator in your in your B I sent you that information absolutely you can do that um people asking is there maximum per family what if there are multiple individuals in households with opwp eligibility the
maximum amount is per individual not her family so I have a friend who has twins and both of them have opwdd eligibility they could apply for each individual it's not per household it's not for family it's per individual that's what
the maximum $3,000 can I apply for FSS reimbursement if I have self-direction yes you can as long as your budget indicates um an FSS agency as a direct
provider purchase and it's an approved budget no if the individual is over 18 and requesting for closing reimbursement and I say that because um for individuals who are over 18 in their
budgets there can be an allocation for reimbursement for funding for clothing so the state will not approve a re a reimbursement submitted to FSS for that um can I apply for tickets and transportation if I have self-direction
no ncea does not provide tickets or transportation to individuals that have self-direction um and the same applies for the crisis management for Nice N cannot provide the reimbursement uh not the reimbursement the pricess management service if you have self-direction
however other agen IES may have the opportunity that they could do that so you would check I would refer you to your family support advisory gu to see you could do that so those are the frequently asked questions in case nobody wanted to come up with you know putting it in the chat I wanted to try
and be helpful with that um I have all the cont have a couple in the chat um do you want me to uh give you those questions really please yeah if you don't mind absolutely okay um I did see one person ask and this will bring us back a little bit um they had stepped out for a moment does nysid serve
outings for Manhattan residents no we cannot okay no we cannot manhatt well that's not in our contract unfortunately okay um the next question is reimbursement is reimbursement done calendar year January to December or
fiscal year July to June it's our fiscal year it's July 1st to June 30th um that's within the five if you live in Long Island or in um any of the other uh Westchester County
Upstate New York they are January to December but the five burrows the fiscal year is July 1 to June 30th and the last um comment it said they today they will not provide code
95 I think when you were speaking about exceptions or things of that nature mael Jaz said good morning today they will not provide code 95 would you be a say more about that I I I don't know code 95 if that's a Medicaid um it says code 95 is a
restriction and exceptions code that identifies Medicaid members under the age of 21 for dental procedures um and things of that nature okay for for what provide are you looking um not clear I'm not clear on
what the I don't think I am either let's let Miss uh Mel would you like to come um off of mute to ask your question or to uh re um give a little more depth about the code 95 not being provided that that's irrelevant to
Medicaid now keep in mind Family Support Services is not the Medicaid Program um I do not see them coming offline we can um try to Circle back okay yeah just so that I have Clarity so that I can address it to make sure that
we understand because we don't have you know Family Support Services is not a Medicaid Program so anybody's Medicaid status truly is not relevant to what this what we provide okay Mr Jaz are you I'm asking
to unmute if you're unable to unmute please let me know in the chat um Jackie I do not see any further questions on the chat okay um I did have our contact information um I think I have that still
there is that still on the screen I don't know if it's still there yes yes it's still on the screen okay so that's this is the contact information for anybody um for the services that n does provide for if you had questions um you
know contact that individual directly so um so that my child can they asking for opwdd I don't quite understand that and and I'm sorry if I don't
um oh I guess she needs to figure out where she gets that uh code 95 from but code 95 and that's but is that is that a Medicaid code because it is it is a Medicaid code it is a Medicaid code
right so uh you could I don't know if she's working with the care coordination organization that they could help with that type of um those type that question that and that's just for op I'm gonna make an assumption
for that's for opwdd uh Medicaid waiver enrollment not eligibility eligibility is has nothing to do with an individual's Medicaid status it's their their child's
eligibility to receive opwdd Services um I have on our last page who do you contact for crisis management at n that would be Juliet Hawkins if it's request for evaluations um Elizabeth Sunshine
reimbursement would be myself um my my cell phone number is there as well sports and recreation tickets my colle Sarah Alton she helps with all of that and transportation services our transportation coordinator John so these These are who you can
contact and we will be more than happy to help you however we can and just go from that and does anybody else have any other questions was there something that I you know missed that maybe somebody else said you know that code 95 is important because that's going to be if
they're looking to enroll a Medicaid waiter and to get pwbd medicated waiver services so that's absolutely important that's something that I would take to their CCO they're working with the CCO and have them assist them with that but
as I said eligibility for opwdd services um it's not based on individual's ability to obtain Medicaid it's it's if their individual is deemed eligible for those service okay um thank you so much Jackie
this has been extremely amazing information I'm going to go back and rewatch this for myself um just to make sure we can pull up and capture a lot of this stuff to have it on our website and to make sure it's accessible to the people who were here and those who were not um there was a person who asked in
the chat would this be available it's actually live streaming on YouTube right now so it's available right now uh we are also going to edit it and move it to a zoom so it's living on our website as well but if you do want to grab this
entire recording it is currently available the link is in the chat uh I can put it there again as always we do encourage you to follow the council at cc75 Outreach on YouTube so if you ever miss something you never miss something from our workshops to our meetings we
want to make sure that we keep the community um tied in with that being said I want to thank every one of you for um coming to this to be able to be informed and Jack thank you for your wealth of knowledge and your willingness uh we will make sure to get the
Powerpoints out all of the uh additional information that Jackie has given will be sent out as we mentioned before with that being said Do we have any additional uh questions Stephen did say thank you for such a great presentation and I hope that we send this information
yes we will absolutely send this to our d75 Representatives thank you for bringing that up Stephen I will make sure that all of this is packaged and sent out to the that is very important that we make sure our reps on every Community Education Council has this information as well for the
community and to also just be clear opwdd um eligibility and services is for all individuals with Developmental and disability so if your child in your local um community school and still receives it so you're like you said I'm glad you mentioned the other CC's
because that's something that a lot of families in those schools don't realize that these are access they don't have the resources that you will do through District disability yes oh sorry I was adding a link in it it double talked over you my
apologies do you want to say that last line over no just that other families who whose children have developmental disabilities in the local school districts they many families are unaware they you know they caught up in your your general education classroom and your general education um School a
district 75 school and they don't realize and then as they get older they wait I didn't even know that was available so um I app you for looking to share it with your your other CC Coho so that this way they understand these are Services families can opper apply for get the opportunity to access and
utilize uh Family Support Services I'm going to be very candid with my own son by having him attend the family uh support R Camp he went to Camp he went a away to sleep away camp and it it helped with the Trans transition as he became a young adult to moving to a residence
that he is now living his life um and he KES me out of his room and he's like bye Mommy okay fine knife in my heart but he's living his life as it's his Twi sisters so these Services truly they're
are helping keeping your individual living at home with you for as long as you can possibly have them home with you because that's what you want um to having them grow and explore other opportunities Beyond Family Support Services because you'll see by going on that opw website there are other
services they have supported employment cath employment Independent Living housing subsidies it's they really do have the world for them you just need to know how to access it thank you um Jackie while I want to while we've checked on the chat I want
to check in one more time with our interpreters are there any questions in the Mandarin and or Spanish chat room not on the M line no question on the Spanish line all
right with that being said I do not see any additional questions um in the chat but as always you do have the information uh from Jackie and our council's information if you do need something further d75 counil schools.nyc.gov and I do want to not be
remiss and give our uh vice president miss monan a chance to speak if she's still in the chat room room I'm here hi I just want to thank Jackie as always so much information so wonderful I'm so glad that we can I have the pleasure of
having Jackie in my school so I see her every day but I'm so happy when we get to share her with the whole District L this because she is truly such a wonderful person and helps so many families so thank you Jackie and yes thank you Christy for introducing us to Jackie because you are
golden and we're keeping you with that being said uh just double checking I don't think we have any additional uh questions so what we're going to do at this point is uh free our interpreters at 11:58 a.m. and this recording will be
live and active on YouTube and we will shortly send out all of the different information and resources that Miss frot gave us and again thank you guys and have a great great day on purpose thank you so much for having me here today appreciate sharing it