Caregiver support/respite funds will be available for those on DD waiting lists 6/25

 Family Voices Indiana shares the following information from DDRS:

To: DDRS Consumers and Stakeholders

From: Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services

Re: Caregiver Support Services Funds

Date: May 25, 2012

The Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services announces the Caregiver Support Services

funds will be available for the fiscal year - July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013. The Caregiver

Support Services is 100% state funded.

Services will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and an application must be

completed for each fiscal year’s Caregiver Support Services funds. Previous applications during

fiscal year 2012 for Caregiver Support Services do not carry over to fiscal year 2013.

The application for Caregiver Supports Services must be made in person at the Bureau of

Developmental Disabilities Services district offices by the primary caregiver, OR, if eligibility has

not yet been determined for the individual, the primary caregiver and the individual must

complete the application in person at the district offices. (If the individual has already been

determined eligible for BDDS services, the individual is not required to be present.)

The primary caregiver and the individual(s) may apply for Caregiver Support Services at the

BDDS district offices on and after Monday, June 25, 2012. (Application is available on the DDRS

Forms webpage to print, complete and bring to District Office to submit.)

As long as the Caregiver Support Services funds are available, the Caregiver Support Services

can be approved and available when 1) individual meets the state definition of Intellectual and

Developmental Disabilities and 2) the primary caregiver selects a provider. The individual

cannot receive Caregiver Support Services and receive any other state funded services, such as

VR services, First Steps, CHOICE, Division of Aging waiver, etc.