Regional Center Basics
How many Regional Center are in California?
21
Regional Center qualifying disabilities
What is Intellectual Disabilities, Autism, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, 5th Category?
What is the document that each client has that is used to lead their services?
Individual Program Planning, IPP
Services that support people served by Regional Centers to be more included in their communities, and to build social skills.
What is Social Recreation?
This is the department that determines eligibility.
What is Intake Department?
The services are not funded by our state but federal dollars.
Early Start
According to the CDC, this disability has a current prevalence rate of 1:38 in children.
What is Autism?
Planning that is about the individual’s future and reaching their goals. The process is driven by the individual and reflect what is important to and for that person.
Person-Centered Planning
Regional Centers pays services and supports for their clients.
What is Purchase of Service, POS?
A child who is three or four years of age may qualify for Regional Center services, without needing a diagnosis of developmental disability.
What is Provisional Eligibility?
These individuals support clients specific to their caseloads with access to supports and services.
Service Coordinators
Formerly known as Mental Retardation, a significant sub-average level of intellectual functioning.
What is Intellectual Disability?
This is the name that Regional Centers use to describe companies that provide services after being vetted.
Vendor, Service Provider
Provides short-term relief for primary caregivers, giving them time to rest, travel, or spend time with other family and friends.
What is Respite?
Eligibility to this program: Developmental delay, Disability, At-risk of having a developmental disability.
What is Early Start?
This is the leader of the IPP Team.
Client
A condition in the brain that makes people have changes in sensation, awareness, or behavior brought about by a brief electrical disturbance in the brain.
What is Epilepsy or seizures?
This act is unique to California allowing for people with developmental disabilities to be supported by Regional Center systems.
What is Lanterman Act?
This Manual has one purpose: to help you understand some of your rights as a person with developmental disabilities in California. The Manual focuses on your rights to supports and services under the Lanterman Act — your rights with the Regional Center and service providers.
What is Rights Under Lanterman Act, RULA?
The law says you must have one of the five eligible developmental disabilities and it must be a substantial disability for you in three or more of these major life areas: Name 1 area.
What is communication, learning, self-care, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living, economic self-sufficiency?
This age group are served by Regional Center services excluding early start.
3- end of life
This diagnosis category can be used when characteristics and symptoms mirror other developmental disabilities to determine eligibility.
What is 5th Category?
Oversees the coordination and delivery of services for Californians with developmental disabilities through Regional Centers.
What is Department of Developmental Services, DDS?
This program allows clients to control their budgets and decide who providers their services regardless of the provider is a vendor or not.
What is Self-Determination Program, SDP?
This Manual has one purpose: to help you understand some of your rights as a person with developmental disabilities in California. The Manual focuses on your rights to supports and services under the Lanterman Act — your rights with the Regional Center and service providers.
What is Rights Under Lanterman Act, RULA?