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Alabama
Medicaid to hold Community Waiver Program
(CWP) Public Forum, May
3, 2023
The Alabama Medicaid Agency invites providers,
recipients, advocates, and other interested individuals to provide input during
a public forum on the progress of the Community Waiver Program (CWP).
This forum is required by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) for the 1115(a) Demonstration Waiver that runs
concurrently with the 1915(c) approved October 21, 2021, with an effective date
of October 1, 2021.
Comments will be received during a public forum on
Wednesday, May 3rd at 10 AM and 1 PM, virtually via Webex. If a
participating individual would like to request an ASL interpreter, please
contact the CWP Director, Byron White, via email at byron.white@mh.alabama.gov
before or by 5PM on April 14th, 2023.
The Community Waiver Program targets persons with
intellectual disabilities not currently receiving services through the current
Home and Community-Based Services Waivers, including the persons currently on
the waiting list for the existing Intellectual Disabilities or Living at Home
Waivers. The new waiver program offers services in five enrollment groups,
based on age and relative independence, each with a set of services designed
particularly to serve them. The Community Waiver Program focuses on
maintaining family relationships and promoting community inclusion and
competitive employment, which are of utmost importance to an individual’s
health, well-being, and happiness, by providing the needed supports that can
enable individuals with developmental disabilities to continue to live with
family or in their own homes.
The goals of the Community Waiver Program
(CWP) include, but are not limited to the following:
•
Improve access to care by reducing and
eventually eliminating the current waiting list for Home and Community Based
Services (HCBS).
•
Keep families together, support
independent living, and provide increased opportunities for self-direction.
•
Adopt a strategy for delivering HCBS that
aims to prevent crisis and escalation of needs for individuals who do not
currently require an institutional level of care.
•
Support the capacities that individuals with
ID have to contribute to their community through participation in integrated
community employment, while also better ensuring their financial stability in
continuing to live in the community.
Information on the Community Waiver Program (CWP) is
available on the following websites: