Ensuring that persons with developmental disabilities be given the opportunity to transition to a community access program after enrollment in an employment program.
Summary
Requires the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to offer clients of the Division of Developmental Disabilities who are age 21 or older the option to transfer to a community access program after nine months of enrollment in an employment program and to transfer from a community access program to an employment program.
Requires the DSHS to consider options which allow for alternative service settings for community access services when developing ways to strengthen and expand the community access program.
Requires the DSHS to develop rules to allow for an exception to the requirement that a client participate in an employment program for nine months before transferring receiving community access services.
From the Substitute House Bill Report (SSB 6384), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
AN ACT Relating to ensuring that persons with developmental disabilities be given the opportunity to transition to a community access program after enrollment in an employment program;