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Community Options Program

ISSUE:

The Community Options Program (COP) is a state-funded program to provide assess-ments, case plans and community services as an alternative to nursing home place-ments for all disability groups as well as the frail elderly. COP-Waiver is a Medicaid Waiver program.

• COP serves five categories of individuals: frail elderly; developmental disabilities; chronic mental illness; physical disabilities; or chemical dependent.
• COP-Waiver primarily serves the elderly or people with physical disabilities.
• Over 3,120 individuals with developmental disabilities were on COP waiting lists for services as of December 31, 1999.

POSITION:

The WCDD supports eliminating the COP waiting lists and keeping people with disabilities out of nursing homes and in their communities.

LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES:

The Council supports the following legislative initiatives:

• Implement the waiting list package and fully fund COP.
• Maintain the five population groups served by COP.

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2. Birth to Three
3. Campaign Finance Reform
4. Children's Long Term Care Redesign
5. Community Aids
6. Community Integration Program
7. Community Options Program
8. Dental Care Access
9. Direct Service Workforce Shortage
10. Education of Students with Disabilities
11. Employment
12. Family Care Program
13. Family Support Program
14. Independent Living Assistive Technology
15. Medicaid Card Services
16. Mental Health: Fairness in Insurance
17. Mental Health: Services & Supports
18. Protecting People with Disabilities from Abuse
19. Respite Care
20. Specialized Transportation
21. State Centers for the Developmentally Disabled
22. Voting Reforms
23. Welfare Reform & People with Disabilities