This is a process for resolving disagreements between regional centers and consumers or parents regarding regional center funded services.
What is the Fair Hearing Process?
100
A state and federal funded program that provides intervention services to infants, toddlers and their families up until 3 years of age
What is California’s Early Start Program?
200
This tells the consumer/parents, the regional center and the service provider the specific skill to be achieved through the provision of a regional center funded service.
What is an outcome?
200
Friends and family that provide care and/or supervision for a consumer without being paid.
What are natural supports?
200
This is a fee paid by parents each year when the minor child lives in the family home, and meets the remaining criteria.
What is the Annual Family Program Fee?
300
This must occur in order to establish the existence of a deficit, identify a specific outcome, and identify the appropriate amount and type of service.
What is an assessment?
300
Specialized services directed toward the alleviation of a developmental disability and the acquirement of an independent, productive, normal life.
What are regional center services?
300
This nonprofit agency was established to provide rights advocacy for persons with developmental disabilities.
What is the Office of Clients Rights Advocacy?
400
This particular plan, to be included in an adult consumer’s IPP, is intended to maximize a consumer’s independence and community integration and may require a mobility assessment.
What is a transportation access plan?
400
An agency which has a legal responsibility to serve all members of the general public and receives public funds for doing so.
What is a generic agency?
400
This agency provides families with resources to obtain care and supervision for their minor children.
What is the Child Care Resource Center
500
This is a document developed through a process of “individual needs determination”; and includes outcomes and services agreed upon between the regional center and the consumer, or where appropriate, parents.
What is an individual program plan?
500
Services that are known to assist in achievement of a specific IPP outcome are called this.
What is effective?
500
The Lanterman Act requires the utilization of these resources prior to the expenditure of regional center funds.