Dear Friends and Colleagues:
This e-mail is to inform you that the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities has published on its website an opportunity for the public to comment on the upcoming renewal application of our Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) waiver. The renewal will seek to extend the waiver for another five year period, beginning on October 1, 2014. This HCBS application will include an HCBS Settings Transition Plan which lays out the steps that OPWDD will take to examine our services and how we meet the new requirements for HCBS services that were established in federal regulations that became final on March 17, 2014. These federal regulations require that all States create transition plans to evaluate compliance with the new federal rules. OPWDD is working with the New York State Department of Health and other New York State agencies on the state’s overall transition plan. This communication applies specifically to OPWDD’s 1915 c Comprehensive HCBS Waiver.
Please see our website for additional information. Thank you for your involvement and we look forward to receiving your ideas.