Definition:
COMMON TERMS
Arrangements that Support Self-Determination:
- A process that moves toward choices and options involving self-determined arrangements that can include individual budgets for services determined to be necessary to enhance choice and control. New to mental health, well established with people having developmental disabilities.
- The way that you choose to use your individual budget to obtain the services and supports in your plan.
Agency with Choice (AWC) Provider:
An agency that shares employer duties with you, allowing you to recruit, hire and manage workers.
Allies:
Friends, family members and others who you choose to assist you to develop and implement arrangements that support self-determination.
Mental Health Agency:
The mental health agency that approves your plan and individual budget and pays for your supports and services.
Case Manager:
Someone who works for your mental health agency and helps you develop and monitor your plan and individual budget.
Choice Voucher System (CVS):
Methods for you to control your individual budget and directly employ workers.
Fiscal Intermediary (FI):
An independent agency that manages the funds in your individual budget, makes payments to providers of services when you authorize it to do so and gives you support and assistance as needed.
Individual Budget:
The list of services and supports that is approved and funded by your mental health agency.
Medicaid:
A federal government program that pays for the services and supports in your plan.
Person-Centered Planning (PCP) Process:
The way that you come together with your allies and supports coordinator to identify what you want to do in your life, what services and supports you need to accomplish what you want to do and how you will use arrangements that support self-determination.
Self-Determination:
Arrangements where you control the individual budget for your plan. You choose who supports you, when they support you, and how that support is provided.
Supports Coordinator:
Someone who works for your mental health agency and helps you develop and monitor your plan and individual budget.