Objective A: Establish a coordinated system to develop, administer, and implement housing programs for people with disabilities through a streamlined voucher process to be used by Public Housing Authorities within a statewide housing plan.
Objective B: Create a directory of rental opportunities.
Objective C: Maintain stock of vouchers and affordable housing units.
Objective D: Create new housing options.
Objective E: Include input of people with disabilities in Delaware State Housing Authority needs assessment.
Objective F: Increase access to homeownership.
Objective G: Develop and implement Division of Services for Aging & Adults with Physical Disabilities housing options.
Objective H: Ensure range of in-home services and supports including Personal Attendant Services (PAS); in-home medical, nonmedical, and personal care needs; and behavioral health services.

Objective A: Secure funding for MFP program.
Objective B: Advocate for Community Ombudsman.
Objective C: Pass S.R. 26.
Objective D: Advocate for MFP legislation.

Objective A. Implement Medicaid Buy-In. Actions includes following recommendations from the Building a Medicaid Buy-In and Employment Supports Infrastructure in Delaware

Objective A: Develop accessible taxi service.
Objective B: Expand fixed route service.
Objective C: Provide additional paratransit services.
Objective D: Provide non-medical emergency transport.
Objective E: Develop same-day paratransit services.
Objective F: Provide driver education.
Objective G: Provide repair services.
Objective H: Promote accessible car/van pooling.
Objective I: Dedicate funding sufficient to meet demand.
Objective J: Enhance personal vehicle ownership programs.
Objective K: Review motorist signage policy.
Objective L: Develop employer-sponsored transportation.
Objective M: Ensure that destinations are accessible and appropriate
Objective N: Enforce Transit Oriented Development.

Objective A: Provide affordable health and dental insurance.
Objective B: Develop a mandate for commercial insurance to provide coverage based on functional
need.
Objective C: Determine rates for proposed mandates through independent contracts.
Objective D: Provide coverage for audiological services, aides, and equipment.
Objective E: Create statewide insurance purchasing pool.
Objective F: Provide Medicaid dental to people with disabilities over 21 years of age.
Objective G: Reform Worker’s Compensation legislation to be consistent with State Council for Persons with Disabilities recommendations.
Objective H: Require insurers to cover “name brand” drugs.
Objective I: Expand funding for and access to Personal Attendant Services (PAS).
Objective J: Develop PAS contingency plans.
Objective K: Expand pool of PAS workers.
Objective L: Expand access to family support services.
Objective M: Implement a marketing program for community-based healthcare.
Objective N: Train healthcare providers on disability needs and cross-disability community-based
services.
Objective O: Develop “one-stop” medical service program.
Objective P: Enhance and expand non-residential community-based alternatives.
Objective Q: Foster statewide focus on grant opportunities.
Objective T: Revise eligibility criteria to reflect need.

Objective A: Ensure fair and adequate compensation and benefits for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) by setting state and regionally-competitive starting wages and benefits with wage increase structures.
Objective B: Create strategies to build DSP workforce.
Objective C: Create strategies to fund DSP workforce.
Objective D: Establish minimum requirements for Direct Support Professionals.
Objective E: Implement standardized certification process recognized across agencies.
Objective F: Establish a career lattice for DSPs, including specializations.
Objective G: Establish and promote a professional association for DSPs.

Objective A: Develop assessment and discharge protocols to identify and provide for support needs.
Objective B: Develop a tool assessing housing needs, support needs, preferences, and risk of
homelessness allowing for living in the most integrated setting.
Objective C: Expand use of Homeless Management Information Strategies (HMIS) for individuals with disabilities.
Objective D: Establish a discharge planning workgroup.
Objective E: Improve discharge planning for the homeless.
Objective F: Require that Public Housing Authorities develop policies allowing youth in State care
access to housing waiting lists prior to their 18th birthday.
Objective G: In line with Breaking the Cycle: Delaware’s Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness And Reduce Long-Term Homelessness, include “Recommendation 3: Improve Discharge and Transition Planning to Prevent Homelessness Following Transition Between the Children’s System of Care and the Adult System and Discharge or Release from Hospitalization, Institutionalization and Incarceration”.
Objective H: Develop an information technology platform for a common assessment tool.
Objective I: Create tools to enhance self-management skills.
Objective J: Promote the development of a model for consumer self-management to incorporate into
person-centered planning and self-directed care programs.
Objective K: Enhance consumer access to tools critical to self-management on the internet.
Objective L:. Build capacity for State to categorize consumers by key descriptors.
Objective M: Implement performance management within state agencies through performance-based
budgeting and an annual review of benefits.

Objective A: Achieve an annual rate of increase of 3% for obtaining and retaining jobs.
Objective B: Coordinate agency employment efforts.
Objective C: Ensure that the State of Delaware hires individuals with disabilities.
Objective D: Increase the number of employers providing opportunities for hire to persons with disabilities.
Objective E: Seek Delaware Workforce Investment Board funds to support employment goals.

Objective A: Create acceptance of mental illness as a biologically-based neurological disorder that is possible to treat in a community-based setting.
Objective B: Improve access to mental health services for both acute care (hospitalization) and long-
term care in the community.
Objective C: Divert people with mental illness from the criminal justice system.
Objective D: Guarantee availability of medications.

Objective A: Expand the First State School model.
Objective B: Secure grant to fund transitionfrom pediatric services to adult community-based alternatives.
Objective C: Mandate that Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Services for Children, Youth, and Families, and Department of Education develop a strategic plan to keep children in-state when in the child’s best interest.
Objective D: Provide services according to functional need.
Objective E: Increase Delaware provider capacity to better serve children and their families.