OADS, OCFS, OMS Home and Community Based Settings (HCBS) Lifespan Project Listening Sessions

OADS, OCFS, OMS Home and Community Based Settings (HCBS) Lifespan Project Listening Sessions

Please join the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Aging and Disability Services (OADS), Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS), and Office of MaineCare Services (OMS) for a presentation and listening session on a proposed Lifespan Project for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). 

The proposed project will support several goals, many of which have been communicated as priorities by stakeholders, including:

• Greater Flexibility to Address Changing Needs – The Lifespan project will consider the changing needs of this population, such as needs that change with age.
• Improved Transition and In-Home Services – The Lifespan project will compliment current transition work (from childhood to adulthood) by including children starting at either 14 or 16 years (to be determined).  In-home waiver supports, independent living skills, and employment services could begin early and continue seamlessly into adulthood. 
• Innovation – The Lifespan project will be a vehicle for innovations for families and waiver members, such as tiered shared living, enhanced medical and behavioral health supports, self-direction, innovative employment supports, and more independent living options. Technology and self-direction innovations offer alternative approaches that can be implemented despite workforce shortages.

We are hosting 3 sessions with each of the focused participant groups. To promote active interaction, providers will be asked to only attend the provider specific sessions.

Southern Maine (Cumberland, Sagadahoc, York):
Individuals and Families/Guardians: September 20 from 4pm to 5:30pm
Registration Link: https://mainestate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdeuvpj0tHNIWKsUXEENYqJY-LXMl4KYU

​Providers: September 22 from 11am to 12:30pm
Registration Link: https://mainestate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpf-CuqTsoE9zJ6sVBHPlL9m9tWM8IcKNa
 
Central Maine (Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford):
Providers: September 27 from 11am to 12:30pm
Registration Link: https://mainestate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ode6qpzojH9w1IAc-YLN2k6MuQqztT6CS
 
Individuals and Families/Guardians: September 29 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Registration Link: https://mainestate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpd-Grpj8vH9IQnPRRFvFRglokKTYbUs0e
 
Northern Maine (Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, Washington):
Individuals and Families/Guardians: October 4 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Registration Link: https://mainestate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtc-irrT4jG9AzBFyOAgAi44rCJf1uSs2n
 
Providers: October 6 from 11am to 12:30pm
Registration Link: https://mainestate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpdOysqT4oE9drw-Hu4J73tDJ-1FSFlj1E  
If you require accommodation, such as real time transcription and captioning (CART) or American Sign Language (ASL) or other language interpretation, please contact Miranda Whalen at miranda.whalen@maine.gov by September 13th