Best Practices – Shared

Submission date: 10/16/2008
Submitted by: Krista McCracken
Provider name: Shared (AHCA, APD, VR , Manatee Community College)
APD Area: 23

Practice
Approval of services that together empowers this man to live the life he wants, and work towards a future without services.

Who Benefits? How?
(A) is engaged and going to college. His long term goal is to own his own company that develops adaptive equipment for individuals with physical disabilities. He is engaged and has recently moved from his parent’s home to an apartment with a roommate. He has a diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy and uses a power wheelchair to get from place to place. (A) has significant physical disabilities and has little control of his body. He had wanted to live in his own place before getting married. Although he loves his parents, he felt that they were over protecting him and keeping him from truly experiencing life. (A) has an IHSS who supports him in the home, his SLC who helps him take care of his finances and physician appointments. He has a companion provider who supports him at college when he needs some additional personal care. The school supports him by having a note taker as well as some adaptations in the way he takes tests. VR is paying for him to be able to go to school and for his computer. AHCA has paid for adaptive equipment through the Waiver as well as through the Medicaid State plan. He had an automatic door opener on his front door in the family home and the Waiver paid for it to be moved and installed on his door at his apartment. He has a hoyer lift as well as other pieces of equipment. (A) and his fiancée are planning to marry in March 2009.