Re: Switching to ACCES$ for 1 Childhood and 1 soon to be Adult Home Based Waiver

[Guest guest]

You thought I quit and I can't resist responding to this question.

Anne, I think you are blending a two or three job roles in your question and

I think it will be helpful to the greater audience if I can clarify. If I'm

reading this right, I see three distinct roles referred to below; service

facilitators, personal support workers (employed by an agency or hired

directly), and fiscal intermediaries.

I suspect that your service facilitator was employed by the same

organization that was providing your daughters' personal support workers. So

Easter Seals employed your Service Facilitator and Easter Seals was also

responsible for hiring, training, supervising, insuring, and paying their

Personal Support Workers. So you didn't need to use a fiscal intermediary to

pay them. Those two things don't have to happen within the same organization

though sometimes they do.

Now it sounds like you are using someone employed by UCP as your Service

Facilitator and you will be hiring your daughter's personal support workers

" directly " . Personal support workers hired, trained, and supervised by the

individual or their family are paid through one of two fiscal

intermediaries; either ACES$ or PPL. You get to choose.

Don't forget that the Family Support Network has a pretty readable FAQ on

their website at

http://www.familysupportnetwork.org/miscellaneous%20pdfs/2009%20Frequently%2

0Asked%20Questions.pdf

I have heard the question of liability insurance raised in numerous

discussions. The impression I have is that this is something that you should

be concerned about. But, I have never heard how others have resolved this.

This is a great subject for this list serve to chat about. And maybe a

couple of our lawyer friends can help. though this is not a will or trust

issue..

Charlotte

From: IPADDUnite [mailto:IPADDUnite ] On

Behalf Of raskles1

Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 1:46 PM

IPADDUnite

Subject: Switching to ACCES$ for 1 Childhood and 1 soon to be

Adult Home Based Waiver

Hi.

This is Anne Enk from Plainfield. It has been forever since I have written

for advice. We currently use Easter Seals Joliet as our Facilator for both

daughters Childhood Waivers. We will be using UCP for ACCES$ beginning

8/1/2011. As our 1 daughter will be 18 in 1 month, we plan on my husband to

be the 'employer' and my son and I to be additional P.S.W.'s if need arises.

My question follows:

If anyone uses ACCES$, have you ever looked into having liablity insurance

for your P.S.W's? If so, would you like to share your opinion or insight on

it? Easter Seals took out for Workmans Comp and ACCES$ only takes it out for

Pennsylvania P.S.W.'s not for Illinois(verified by Quintin at ACCES$). (

Thank God in the 3 years my daughters have had the waivers, we have never

had a problem but if a PSW were to be injured on the job (none of mine have

medical insurance) we could be in a world of hurt, even with our umbrella

policy)

Any information is truly appreciated. MANY THANKS.

[Guest guest]

Charlotte,

Many thanks for your expedient and insightful reply. My next

step will be to read the FAQ on the Family Support Network!

Anne

[Guest guest]

I am not sure of the PPL you are refering to Charlotte. Can you expand on this

type of fiscal intermediary?

Anne

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> Charlotte,

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> Many thanks for your expedient and insightful reply. My next

> step will be to read the FAQ on the Family Support Network!

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> Anne

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[Guest guest]

Sorry Charlotte, I did find my own answer!

Anne

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> > Charlotte,

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> > Many thanks for your expedient and insightful reply. My next

> > step will be to read the FAQ on the Family Support Network!

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> > Anne

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