Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. Depending on usage, the term may refer specifically to a single frequently asked question, or to an assembled list of many questions and their answers. Here is a list of FAQs considered for WAPADH’s Housing Services section:
1 WAPADH’s Housing Services Background
1.1 What is a consumer?
1.2 What is the Lanterman Act
1.3 What are Regional Centers?
1.4 What services does a Supported Living agency provide? What services doesn’t a Supported Living agency provide?
1.5 What is Title 17?
1.6 How is SLS funded?
1.7 What are Independent Living Services (ILS)?
1.8 What is the difference between ILS and SLS?
1.9 Do I need to have ILS before I can receive SLS?
1.10 Are Supported Living Arrangements licensed by the state?
2 WAPADH’s Housing Services and Me
2.1 Who is eligible for Supported Living Services?
2.2 Why does an individual have to be 18 to be eligible for SLS?
2.3 Can a person be “too disabled” to use Supported Living Services?
2.4 How do I earn Supported Living Services?
2.5 What behavior would make me lose SLS?
2.6 If SLS is all about individual choices, what happens if I make a “bad” choice?
2.7 Will I be supported on nights, weekends, and holidays?
2.8 Who chooses the people who support me in SLS?
2.9 What happens if my needs change while I am receiving Supported Living Services? If I need increased support, will I lose SLS?
2.10 Will I be as safe living with SLS as I would be in a group home or larger institution? Doesn’t going out in the community make me vulnerable?
2.11 Will living in my own home, not surrounded by other consumers, make me lonely and disconnected?
2.12 How will the quality of my support be monitored and maintained if I use SLS?
3 WAPADH & the Planning of Housing Services
3.1 How does a person using SLS find a home?
3.2 Whose name is on the lease or title/deed of the home in which a consumer using SLS lives?
3.3 Who assigns my housemates when I use SLS?
3.4 What if I live with my family or in a group home where the cost was less than the cost for SLS?
3.5 What if I do not communicate using words – how do you know what my choices are?
3.6 What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
3.7 What is Faciliated Communication?
3.8 What is Person Centered Planning?
3.9 What is a “Circle of Support”?
3.10 What is an IPP?
Now that you have a brief, yet detailed description of WAPADH’s Housing Services’ FAQs, this is where you come in if you so choose. Beginning next week, I’ll be piecing together a FAQs section pertaining specifically to WAPADH’s Housing Services. If you have any questions that you’d like to see in any of these three sections besides the ones I’ve indicated above, don’t hesitate to let me know. You know how to get a hold of me. By the way, we’re trying to keep our FAQs section as simple as possible. Don’t get too fancy.
