Second Meeting of Newly Reconvened Developmental Centers Task Force Scheduled for October 8

State Capitol Building,
Sacramento, Calif.

The “Developmental Services Task Force” – formerly the “Future of the Developmental Centers Task Force” – will hold its second meeting from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 8th, at the California Department of Health Care Services building in Sacramento. A conference phone line is also available (see below) for anyone who is not able to attend in person. The meetings of the task force are open to the public – and public comment will be taken both at the meeting and over the phone at the end of the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Diana Dooley.

The task force, with its new focus to identify ways to strengthen the community-based services and supports for people with developmental disabilities, held its first meeting with its new mission on July 24th. Issues to be examined by the task force, according to Secretary Dooley’s original July 3, 2014 press release, will include community rates, the impact of new State and federal laws and regulations, and staffing levels at Regional Centers.


A series of just completed regional stakeholder meetings in Fresno, Los Angeles and Sacramento was conducted by the Department of Developmental Services, headed by Director Santi Rogers to receive input from stakeholders on implementation of several of the recommendations by the original “Future of the Developmental Centers Task Force”.
 


MEETING INFORMATION

WHAT: Developmental Services Task Force

WHEN: October 8, 2014 – Wednesday

TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
California Department of Health Care Services
1700 K Street, First Floor Conference Room
Sacramento, CA 95814


CONFERENCE CALL LINE: 1-800-779-8389
PASSCODE (Verbally given to conference call operator):  DS TASK FORCE.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jim Suennen, Associate Secretary, External Affairs, California Health and Human Services Agency at 916-651-8056 or email Jim.Suennen@chhs.ca.gov


More information about the original Task Force, including audio recordings of past meetings, is also available on the Health and Human Services website at www.chhs.ca.gov/Pages/DCsTaskForce.aspx.

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source: CDCAN / CA Disability Community Action Network