Consumer Directed Caregiver Resources
- Consumer Direction in Personal Assistance
- Consumer-Directed Care Plus: Consumer Notebook
- Consumer-Directed Model Training Manual
- Consumer-Directed Personal Care Attendant Handbook
- Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies: A Handbook
- In-Home Supportive Services Consumer Handbook
- Working Together: Personal Assistance Training and You
Consumer Direction in Personal Assistance
Creators:
Program Development Associates
Purpose:
To train people who are or want to be personal assistants about consumer direction, health and safety, rights and responsibilities, and communication.
Audience:
Caregivers and personal assistants, and those who train them.
Contents:
70 minute DVD. Comes with Learning guides for each module.
Cost:
259.95
Availability:
Consumer-Directed Care Plus: Consumer Notebook
Creators:
Florida Cash & Counseling Program
Purpose:
To provide Cash & Counseling enrollees with basic information to manage their own personal care services
Audience:
Florida Cash & Counseling enrollees
Contents:
Sections include: Introduction to the notebook, Roles & Responsibilities, and the Notebook and Training
Cost:
Free
Availability:
Consumer-Directed Model Training Manual
Creators:
Cash and Counseling, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Funded by Centers for Disease Control.
Purpose:
Training manual for consumers responsible for hiring, training and managing a personal care attendant.
Audience:
People with disabilities
Contents:
See Chapter 6, p. 115 "Secondary Conditions." This chapter covers secondary conditions faced by many people with disabilities and how the consumer can train their attendant to prevent or manage the secondary condition.
Evidence based results:
There are several evaluation reports on the Arkansas Cash & Counseling demonstration. Go to: [http://www.cashandcounseling.org/resources/index_html]
Cost:
Free
Availability:
Manual available at: http://www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/nrcpds/cash_and_counseling.html/resources/20060303-140846/ConsumerDirectedCareManual.pdf
Consumer-Directed Personal Care Attendant Handbook
Creators:
Cash and Counseling, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Funded by Centers for Disease Control.
Purpose:
Training manual for personal care attendants who are working for people for disabilities.
Audience:
Personal care attendants
Contents:
A consumer-directed skills training for managing and directing personal care needs through the supervision of a personal care attendant.
Cost:
Free on the web
Availability:
Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies: A Handbook
Creators:
Cash & Counseling
Purpose:
Provides state staff, policymakers, service providers, program participants, and other stakeholders with a single comprehensive source of information about self-direction programs and policies. Its primary purpose is to explain how States can increase pro
Audience:
State staff, policy makers, service providers, program participants and other stakeholders
Contents:
Information about self-direction programs and policies
Cost:
Free download on the web
In-Home Supportive Services Consumer Handbook
Creators:
California Department of Social Services
Purpose:
To help In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) consumers/recipients understand their roles and responsibilities in the program.
Audience:
: Individuals who receive personal assistance services through the IHSS program.
Contents:
Information on understanding the IHSS program and finding, hiring, supervising and paying a care provider through the program.
Cost:
Free download on the web
Availability:
Access it at http://www.cdss.ca.gov/agedblinddisabled/PG1831.htm
Working Together: Personal Assistance Training and You
Creators:
UCSF PAS Center/InfoUse
Purpose:
Provides consumers with information on hiring, training and working with a personal assistant, as well as information to help train an assistant, tools, and additional resources
Audience:
New and experienced users of personal assistance services who employ their own caregivers.
Contents:
Online based resource and training guide
Cost:
Free online, or book available for $49.95
Availability:
Free online http://www.pascenter.org/pas_users/index_pas.php; book available for purchase at http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Working_Together_Consumer_Personal_Assistance_Training_BOOK-pid700.html