Bill Text: IN SCR0005 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging FSSA to continue its professional development programs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2010-02-16 - Returned to the Senate [SCR0005 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-SCR0005-Introduced.html
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION encouraging the Family and Social Services Administration to continue efforts to develop systemic, comprehensive professional development and education for direct support professionals, such as the INTrain Project, and to support efforts to obtain funding.
January 5, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
RESOLUTION No. 5
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION encouraging the Family and
Social Services Administration to continue efforts to develop systemic,
comprehensive professional development and education for direct
support professionals, such as the INTrain Project, and to support
efforts to obtain funding.
Whereas, Direct support professionals are the primary
providers of publicly funded long term support and services
for thousands of individuals with developmental disabilities
in Indiana;
Whereas, A direct support professional must build a close,
trusted relationship with an individual with disabilities and
ensure that basic health and safety needs are met as well as
provide support to address daily living needs;
Whereas, A direct support professional provides essential
support to help keep an individual with disabilities connected
to family and community, to live meaningful, successful lives,
and to avoid more costly institutional care;
Whereas, Federal and state policies, as well as the
Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999),
assert the right of an individual with disabilities to live in his
or her own home and community;
Whereas, The majority of direct support professionals are
employed in home and community-based settings, a trend
that is projected to increase over the next decade;
Whereas, There is a growing, documented critical shortage
of direct support professionals in most communities
throughout Indiana;
Whereas, Many direct support professionals are forced to
leave jobs due to inadequate wages and benefits resulting
from the funding and reimbursement structure for services,
creating high turnover and vacancy rates that research
demonstrates adversely affect the quality of support to
individuals with disabilities; and
Whereas, Over the last few years, through the leadership of
the Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services,
Indiana has taken a leadership position in designing and
piloting a Direct Support Professional Development
Initiative that seeks to educate and train direct support
professionals as a crucial element in promoting quality
services for individuals with developmental disabilities and
an important component in their quality of life: Therefore,
SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly encourages the Family and Social Services Administration to continue efforts to develop systemic, comprehensive professional development and education for direct support professionals, such as the INTrain Project, and supports efforts to obtain funding for the same.
SECTION 2. That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the Secretary of the Senate to the Secretary of the Family and Social Services Administration.
