ANNOUNCEMENT
Shared Living Request for Proposals
Consumer and Family Forum
9/30/11, 1- 4 p.m. - Room 105 Rachael Carson Building

AUDIENCE: All consumers and families interested in providing feedback and responses to the Shared Living RFI.

PURPOSE: The Department of Public Welfare is holding a Consumer and Family Forum to provide an opportunity for interested parties to share their ideas and responses to the Shared Living RFI.

BACKGROUND: Shared Living is a community based, supportive service and housing option for people with a wide variety of disabilities who need help with daily support services, and who choose to live in a small, homelike setting. They share living space with a small number of other people where they receive the supports and services that they need. DPW has two existing Shared Living options, Family Living through the Office of Developmental Programs, and Domiciliary Care through the Office of Long Term Living. DPW released an RFI to gather information from all interested stakeholders about strategies to improve and enhance these types of service options.

FORUM DETAILS:

• Please e-mail Jessica Bradley to register to attend by September 26, 2011. Her e-mail address is jebradley@pa.gov. Room 105 in teh Rachael Carson Building has a reasonable amount of capacity , but we want to accomodate everyone within the seating limitations.
• An RFI Supplement, provided by teh SAU1 Board of Directors is attached below. It is a more user friendly version; please feel free to utilize it in planning your input.
• Written submissions will continue to be accewpted until September 30, 2011. They can be submitted to: sharedliving@pa.gov.

CLICK HERE for printable version of this Announcement
CLICK HERE for RFI Supplement