Acronyms
Counties
Core Services
Potpourri
Programs/Services
100
was passed by Congress in 1990, is the nation's first comprehensive civil rights law addressing the needs of people with disabilities.
What is ADA?
100
Classic City is located here.
What is Clarke?
100
the active process of linking a person with a need or problem with a service which will meet the need or solve the problem
What is Information & Referral?
100
is a rebalancing initiative that was made possible by an eleven-year grant to states from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This grant is designed to help individuals who are institutionalized in in-patient facilities like nursing facilities, hospitals and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ICF/IDD) return to their homes and communities.
What is MFP?
100
is the movement of people, animals and goods from one location to another
What is Transportation?
200
has been established in all 50 Project Independence in GA goal is to assist people 55+ to live indecently in their homes & community.
What is OBP?
200
known as the Granite capital of the World
What is Elbert?
200
this occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other
What is Peer Support?
200
To break down all barriers by enhancing the quality of life and empowering people with disabilities including veterans through advocacy, education and training.
What is MC mission?
200
a system of raised dots that can be read with the fingers
What is Braille?
300
is a CMS grant Georgia received in order to increase access to non-institutional long-term services and supports (LTSS) as of October 1, 2012.
What is BIP?
300
once known as “The Work Clothing Capital of the World”
What is Barrow?
300
are those skills necessary to live as independently as possible
What are Independent Living Skills?
300
founded in 1793 Once an angle in the boundary between Creek and Cherokee lands
What is Oglethorpe?
300
training that is unique to Multiple Choices among the CILs
What is Micro Enterprise?
400
in Georgia is committed to providing as many avenues as possible for people with disabilities to receive vocational rehabilitation services.
What is GVRA?
400
ranked as the third-best rural county to live in by Progressive Farmer magazine in 2006
What is Oconee?
400
activities promoting movement from school to post-school activities including post-secondary education, vocational training, employment, continuing and adult education, and independent living
What is Youth Transitioning?
400
any item or piece of equipment that is used to increase, maintain or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities in all aspects of life
What is Assistive Technology
400
Shadow education is supplementary assistance that is offered outside the mainstream education system
What is Tutoring?
500
founded in 1977 provides research, education and consultation in the areas of independent living, home and community-based services, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
What is ILRU?
500
founded in 1786 it is Georgia 11th county
What is Greene?
500
is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions
What is Advocacy?
500
is a consumer controlled, community based, cross disability, nonresidential private nonprofit agency that is designed and operated within a local community by individuals with disabilities
What is a CIL?
500
is the process of assisting people to move from a nursing home back to the community, if that is what they desire
What is Nursing Home Transitioning?