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KITTITAS COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES PROGRAM The Washington State Department of Social and Heatth Services, Developmentat Disabitities Administration (DDA) provides funding to counties for emptoyment and other support services for people with devetopmental disabilities. Etigibitity for services is determined by DDA and is based on Washington State residency, evidence of a quatifying developmentat disability' that began before age 18, and evidence of substantial limitations (see more detaited information about etigibitity for DDA services in Appendix A). The funding varies based on availabitity, number of people receiving services, and the needs of each individual and is intended to hetp peopte keep a job or gain skitts for obtaining employment. Kittitas County has received an average of around 5600,000 per year for the past 5 years from DDA. Additionatly, per Revised Code of Washington 71.20.110, counties are required to annually budget and levy a property tax for developmental disabitities or mental heatth services. ln Kittitas County, this tax is sptit equatty between developmentat disabitities and mental health services. Commonty referred to as "mitlage", the county has discretion on how these funds are spent. The developmental disabitities program has received around 5100,000 annually from this tax over the past 2 years. Kittitas County's developmental disabitities (DD) program is overseen by the Kittitas County Pubtic Heatth Department through a qualified and experienced DD Coordinator. The county pubtishes an open Request for Quatifications (RFQ) to solicit quatified employment support providers. Responses to the RFQ are reviewed thoroughly by the DD Coordinator and DDA staff, and if quatifications are met, the provider is placed on a list of avaitable employment services providers for clients to choose from when they quatify for services. A Request for Proposals (RFP) is atso pubtished to soticit proposals from local agencies who propose to provide indirect services retated to community information and education, training, and/or other activities that witt benefit peopte [iving with developmentat disabitities, their famities, and/or service providers. The proposats are reviewed by the DD Coordinator and the Developmentat Disabitities Advisory Committee, who make funding recommendations for approval by the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners. DD services funded by DDA fatt into two major categories: Consumer Support Services and Additional Consumer Services, each of which contain several different specific seryices that can be provided. Each type of service as wetl as the targeted outcomes for that service are described betow. Approximatety 5% of the Additional Consumer Services funding is set aside each year for emerging needs that may come about during the biennium, such as new trainings or sponsorships. TTheRevisedCodeof Washington71A.10.020(5) definesadevelopmentatdisabitityas: "adisabitityattributabteto intellectual disability, cerebral patsy, epilepsy, autism, or another neurotogical or other condition of an individual found by the secretary to be ctosely related to an intellectuat disabitity or to require treatment similar to that required for individuats with intettectuat disabilities, which originates before the individual attains age eighteen, which has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely, and which constitutes a substantial timitation to the individual." 13