Video Description: This webinar provides details about the Disability Integration Act, a federal bill that, if passed, would create an absolute right for all people with disabilities to live in the community instead of being forced into institutional settings, such as nursing homes. Participants learn the specifics of the bill, and how this law would benefit people with disabilities by ensuring services and supports needed are provided in a person’s home.

Date: 7/10/18

Author: Hosted by NYAIL, presented by Stephanie Woodward, the Director of Advocacy for the Center for Disability Rights (CDR) and a national organizer for ADAPT. Woodward helped draft this legislation, and will offer her expertise on the bill on this highly informative webinar.

Presentation Slides: The Disability Integration Act for NY 2018 (PDF)

Webinar Recording: Learn all about the Disability Integration Act Webinar 2018-07-10 

Webinar Transcript: DIA Webinar Transcript 2018-07-10 (PDF)

Video Description: The Open Doors Transition Center assists individuals in nursing homes who wish to return to the community. Suzanne de Beaumont, Project Director, will present information about the history and funding of the program, how Open Doors is structured, how referrals are made and the role of transition specialists. The relationship between PASRRs and Open Doors will be discussed. 

Date: 9/27/18

Author: Hosted by NYAIL, presented by Suzanne de Beaumont, Project Director. 

Presentation Slides: Transition Center & Peer Outreach and Referral Progam (PDF) 

Webinar Recording: Assisting Individuals Transitioning from Nursing Homes Webinar 2018-09-27 or view on YouTube.

Webinar Description: People transitioning from nursing homes have financial needs immediately upon discharge. This webinar will provide information about how to use Medicaid Community Budgeting for individuals who are preparing to discharge. It will also cover how to reduce or eliminate a Medicaid spenddown for individuals who are transitioning from a nursing home using a Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) plan. These tools can be used to increase the amount of money a person will have to purchase necessary goods and services upon discharge.

Date: 8/23/18

Author: Hosted by NYAIL, presented by Kelly Ann Murray, Staff Attorney for the Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program of the New York Legal Assistance Group 

Presentation Slides: Using Medicaid Community Budgeting While In Nursing Home (PDF) 

Webinar Recording: 

Video Description: People with mental illness are frequently being served in nursing homes. This workshop reviews prevalence and possible reasons for this phenomenon. It also provides information about tools used to assess mental illness in nursing homes and how they can be used to plan transition. Community services and supports such as Health Homes, SPOA and HARPs that can used in transition are described. Barriers to transition and possible solutions are also presented.

Date: 11/07/17

Author: Hosted by NYAIL, presented by The Mental Health Association of New York State (MHANYS)

Presentation Slides:

HARPs HHs and SPOAs (PDF)
Transitioning NH Residents with MI (PDF)

Webinar Recording: Transitioning Nursing Home Residents with Mental Illness to the Community Webinar 2017-11-07

Video Description: This training describes the Olmstead Housing Subsidy (OHS) and how it can help to house participants looking to leave nursing homes, or who were in a nursing home within the past 24 months. The training reviews ways to look for units for participants seeking accessible housing. During the training we review resources used, develop an understanding of Fair Market Rate (FMR), and how to build relationships in the community with landlords. It also gives an overview of the Rapid Transition Housing Program (RTHP).

Date: 03/20/23

Author: Hosted by NYAIL, authored by Valerie Brennan- Olmstead Housing Subsidy, Program Manager

Presentation : Housing Fundamentals 

Video Description: This training will answer the broad question what is cultural competency while exploring Laws, Person First vs. Identity First Language, Marginalizing and Stereotyping as well as incorporating Effective Communication, and Inclusive Leadership into everyday practice. 

Training Objectives: On completion of this training participants should have a broad view of cultural competence and an understanding of diversity, highlighting the fostering of respectful appropriate relationships with people of diverse skills sets at it relates to working with individuals with developmental and other disabilities. Learn the Do’s and Don’ts of respectful interaction and how to be inclusive while practicing cross cultural communication and equity in building successful personal and professional relationships.

Date: 06/26/17

Author: Hosted by NYAIL, presented by The Self-Advocacy Association of NYS

Presentation Slides: Exploring Cultural Compentency (PDF)

Webinar Recording: Exploring Cultural Competency When Working with People with Developmental and Other Disabilities Webinar 2017-06-26

Video Description: This webcast will educate healthcare professionals about how Money Follows the Person (MFP) programs can help eligible individuals transition from institutional settings back to their communities of choice, featuring the New York State MFP demonstration program. Participants will learn how transition specialistsmand peers can help support not only the individual, but also providers working in institutions and the community.

Our guests will also discuss guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights, which highlights the importance of offering nursing home residents the opportunity to learn about available community resources.

Public Health Live! of University At Albany's School of Public Health presents: The Money Follows the Person Program-Facilitating Return to Community-based Settings.

Date: Originally aired on February 16, 2017

Guests: 

Erika C. Robbins, MA, PMP
Vice President
Lewin Group, Center for Aging and Disability Policy

Lindsay Miller, MPH
Executive Director
New York Association on Independent Living

Presentation Slides: MFP: Facilitating Return to Community-Based Settings Slides (PDF)

Transcript: Public Health Live! Presents MFP: Facilitating Return to Community-Based Settings Transcript (PDF)

Informational Flyer: Facilitating Return to Community-Based Settings Flyer (PDF)

Webinar Recording: Access a recording of the training.

Video Description: Laurie Carter, Open Doors Statewide Social Worker, presents an overview of when and how to complete accurate, thorough, concise notes. Review of when notes are needed, tips on how to write notes, what should be included in the note, and what is required within the database. 

Date: 11/01/2016

Author: Hosted by NYAIL. Presented by Open Doors (MFP) Statewide Social Worker, Laurie Carter

Presentation Slides: Writing Notes (PDF)

Webinar Recording: Writing Notes: Tips for the Transition Specialist Webinar 2016-11-01

Video Description: Steve Holmes of the Self-advocacy Association of New York State, Inc., (SANYS) will present on the importance of person centered planning to help a person develop a life plan based on their needs, desires, dreams and goals. Person centered planning is the opposite of system planning; it puts the person in the middle and bases all decisions on the person’s point of view. For people with profound disabilities, family, friends and often staff members who have supported them in the past play a critical role in shaping a plan.

Date: 08/30/2016

Author: Hosted by NYAIL. Presented by Steve Holmes of the Self-advocacy Association of New York State, Inc., (SANYS).

Presentation Slides: Person Centered Planning in the OPWDD System (PDF)

Webinar Recording: