Goals - Highlights from the Council's Five-Year Plan 2006-2011

The NCCDD uses its Five- Year Plan to identify critical needs and issues related to services and supports for people with developmental disabilities and their families. NCCDD also use its Plan to set forth prioritie for funding. Each plan covers a five-year time period. The Council reports outcomes of its activities on an annual basis.

The NCCDD’s Five-Year Plan will direct the Council’s activities from 2006 through 2011. The Plan was developed with input from people with developmental disabilities, their families and the agencies, organizations, businesses, and individuals across the state. This input was generated through the use of seven different approaches: presentations at conferences; public listening sessions (18 locations statewide); focus groups; individual meetings with state-level agency and organization directors; public review through libraries and local disability organizations; web site review; and articles in newsletters of other state agencies and organizations.

Employment

Adults with developmental disabilities will have jobs or economic opportunities of their choice consistent with their individual skills, interests and life goals.
Support the development of economic opportunities which provide economic equality, self-reliance and self-determination for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Collaborate with Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Department of Public Instruction, the Division of MH/DD/SA, the Community College System, and other agencies to increase awareness and access to transition planning and transition services from high school to work.

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Education

Students will reach their educational potential in inclusive and accepting environments.
Promote integration of children with or at risk for developmental disabilities into regular child care settings through participation in joint planning and development activities between the early intervention and child care/after school-communities.
Provide educators with the knowledge, skills and training to implement strengths-based teaching strategies for children with developmental disabilities.
Promote access to post-secondary education opportunities for students with Developmental disabilities.

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Housing

People with developmental disabilities will have affordable, safe, accessible housing choices with respect to where and with whom they live.
Facilitate coordination and collaboration between housing coalitions and grassroots advocates to address the issues of affordable, accessible, safe places to live for people with developmental disabilities.

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Health

People with DD will have access to the full range of needed primary and specialized health-care services.
Promote, develop and expand access to adequate and appropriate primary and specialized health care and dentistry for people with developmental disabilities.
People with DD will have access to a full range of health and wellness opportunities in the community.
Promote, develop and expand access to a full range of health and wellness opportunities in the community for people with developmental disabilities.
Expand educational opportunities for people with developmental disabilities to engage in healthy social and emotional relationships.

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Transportation

People with DD will have transportation options that are affordable, accessible, reliable, flexible and safe.
Promote the participation of people with developmental disabilities on local transportation boards to ensure local, state and federal policy implementation consistent with NCCDD goals.

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Formal/Informal Community Support

Individuals with DD and their families will have access to the full range of services and supports available in a community.
To enhance quality of life outcomes for persons with developmental disabilities by promoting promising practices that address key, later-life issues in the context of family and community.
Increase awareness of and access to disability issues in the justice field; increase awareness of justice issues in the disability field.
Create awareness of asset and wealth development opportunities and increase statewide enrollment of people with developmental disabilities in such programs as individual development accounts (IDA) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Cross-Cutting - Cross-cutting activities are Council activities which impact all areas of emphasis.

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Quality Assurance

People with developmental disabilities and families will have access to the information and supports necessary to affect public policy at the local, state, and national levels.
Support the Association for Self-Advocates of NC (ASANC)in developing a viable, statewide organization by providing staff support, office space and equipment.
Support people with developmental disabilities and their families to have the opportunities, resources and information to make informed choices and enhance their lives by providing financial assistance for participation in diverse forums for learning.
Support people with DD and their families to develop leadership and advocacy skills.
Promote voluntary compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) through a statewide, grassroots network of local affiliates.
Facilitate the participation of people with disabilities in grassroots advocacy through the NC Disability Action Network (NC DAN).
Support a partnership of people with and without developmental disabilities to strengthen self-advocacy throughout NC at the local level.
Implement comprehensive public awareness strategies to increase knowledge of disability rights and responsibility issues in underserved populations (e.g., American Indian and Hispanic populations).

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Develop policy and leadership skills for emerging leaders in developmental disabilities.
People with DD and their families play a meaningful role in the quality management and oversight of DD services and supports.
Promote system change and build capacity by providing leadership training for parents, persons with DD, providers and managers of services.
Advance participant involvement in the oversight, monitoring, and annual publication of user-friendly outcomes data, regarding the performance of state and local DD services.
State and local service delivery systems promote an enhanced quality of life for people with developmental disabilities and their families.
Promote strategies to enhance implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Olmstead community integration mandate.
Support a grassroots campaign to promote statewide adoption of participant-directed services and supports for people with developmental disabilities.
Advance efforts to determine the number of people with developmental disabilities and their families receiving no or limited developmental disabilities services and supports.
Educate people with developmental disabilities and their families on changes occurring.
State policy promotes recruitment, retention, and adequate pay for the direct support professional (DSP) workforce for people with DD.

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Introduce contemporary, competency-based training for direct support professionals.
Advance the goals of the DD Act and the Council’s priorities by providing funding for presentations at conferences, consistent with Council policy.
Introduce and advance promising practices in developmental disabilities.
Appropriate crisis services will be available for adults and children with developmental disabilities and other behavioral or health-related challenges.
In collaboration with other state agencies, professional organizations, self advocates and families, develop a plan for a multidisciplinary crisis intervention network, which can be accessed at all levels of the service delivery system.
Advance independence, productivity and full communication for citizens of NC by promoting access to assistive technology that is selected and customized to address the unique needs of each individual.
Design and implement a model approach to assessment and education for assistive technology.

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