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1. Ways to enhance access to employment opportunities for adults
with developmental disabilities and a strategy to make supportive
employment services the primary form of support services available
to adults with developmental disabilities, especially when they
graduate from high school;

 
2. Data on the number of individuals who receive freestanding
day habilitation funding versus supportive employment funding and
the amount of funding involved, including state grant funds,
state seed funds and federal funds. The report also must address
data on the number of newly graduating high school students who
received services through the freestanding day habilitation
entitlement in each of the past 2 years, the cost associated with
this entitlement, the projected cost of this entitlement in
fiscal year 2006-07 and fiscal year 2007-08 and the location
within the budget where funds for this entitlement are located;

 
3. The possibility of using currently earmarked freestanding
day habilitation funds for supportive employment, including the
possibility of converting the state match for the current day
habilitation services to a new jobs program under a new Medicaid
waiver;

 
4. The relative merits of administering state supportive
employment services to individuals with developmental
disabilities through the Department of Labor as opposed to the
Department of Health and Human Services;

 
5. The extent to which individuals who receive supportive
employment services have a plan for achieving self-support
approved by the Social Security Administration;

 
6. A review of other states' policies regarding supportive
employment, including the State of Washington;

 
7. The reasons for and against implementing a new state
policy modeled after the State of Washington policy that mandates
supportive employment services for the class of 2007 high school
graduates; and

 
8. The resources that need to be available to existing
providers of supportive employment and day habilitation services
in order to successfully shift their emphasis to job development
for adults with developmental disabilities.

 
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