tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400857.post114056133152093317..comments2023-09-16T05:17:59.903-07:00Comments on Developmental Disability System Reform: Oh, I said I'd write weekly didn't I?Doug The Unahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400857.post-1140964722057888592006-02-26T06:38:00.000-08:002006-02-26T06:38:00.000-08:00Agreed, Square Girl, nothing is more important tha...Agreed, Square Girl, nothing is more important than having the system really be responsible to the clients themselves. *In my best Opie voice* Gosh I hope it works out that way. You bet I do!Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400857.post-1140911845998535332006-02-25T15:57:00.000-08:002006-02-25T15:57:00.000-08:00Doug, I think you have provided us with some very ...Doug, I think you have provided us with some very specific doable suggestions that make a lot of sense. I too agree that transperancy is necessary for accountability...anywhere and everywhere.<BR/><BR/>I am curious to see what happens with SD, but am also quite certain that if it is done effectively, accountability and responsibility will be spread more evenly throughout the community and many positions and agencies will be cut out, due to better and more direct quality assurance. With an increase in accountability, the quality of services will need to improve and become more integrated and inclusive to service the needs of the population of developmental disabilities which is ideally what we are all striving for.Alanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03316244154670854155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400857.post-1140653087516039472006-02-22T16:04:00.000-08:002006-02-22T16:04:00.000-08:00Honestly, Mobius Man, I think there is no such thi...Honestly, Mobius Man, I think there is no such thing as accountability without transparency. If you don't know what decisions have been made, you can't tell if they were honest, and the outcomes can be labelled as unplanned.<BR/><BR/>Like you, I have high hopes for SD, although I disagree about one thing: It has to cost RC jobs and it has to cost Agency jobs or it isn't working. Transferring control means transferring responsibility. I'm not talking about major shifts, a lot of transferring can happen with RC staff doing things they've never had time for before. That said, I won't believe that what we're doing is SD until a few agencies close and a few RC positions are cut.<BR/><BR/>There's a good chance that SD will become a Community Integration program which is related but not the same. I'm watching for that.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400857.post-1140627912835704992006-02-22T09:05:00.000-08:002006-02-22T09:05:00.000-08:00Knowing the RCs from the clients' parents standpoi...Knowing the RCs from the clients' parents standpoint.....Herculian accountability is required and demanded of consumers and families to be "considered" for allocations of budget originally intended for their use.<BR/>The hackneyed "transparency" allusion/illusion to me suggests one is to look through or past an organization or individual; and being hard pressed to find anything of substance.<BR/>Kind of like the Casper (the friendly ghost) Syndrome cute, some entertainment value, little of substance, and not actually real or reality based.<BR/>Give us a living breathing system to serve living breathing people.<BR/>We need accountability.<BR/>Accountability not transparency.<BR/>Can be done within current system or can be "reformed".....but the RCs are not going to ask themselves to do better, or even if or how they could pass a simple agency performance review.<BR/>RCs get money because DDS gives out money. Self determination IF it were generally accepted or regarded would be ramped up and implemeted, not slowly marginalized.<BR/>It threatens RC jobs. Which it should not and does not. Really.<BR/>Vendors/families/clients/advocates should convene to discuss these issues and don't need RC "approval" to exercise freedom of speech and expectation.<BR/>We risk everything by doing nothing and risk nothing by trying everything. Now. Today.<BR/>Name the time. Name the place. Let the games begin. I have a baton to pass and others events ahead in which to compete.<BR/>Lets tackle the "Royal Seven" regional centers of Los Angeles County.<BR/>I will not lay down the baton any more than the torch of civil rights of special needs populations in California.<BR/><BR/>A son's dad<BR/>MMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com