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KITTITAS COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES PROGRAM <br />The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Devetopmentat Disabitities <br />Administration (DDA) provides funding to counties for emptoyment and other support services for <br />people with developmental disabitities. Etigibitity for services is determined by DDA and is based on <br />Washington State residency, evidence of a quatifying devetopmentat disabitity that began before age <br />18, and evidence of substantial [imitations (see more detaited information about etigibitity for DDA <br />seryices in Appendix A). The funding varies based on availabitity, number of peopte receiving services, <br />and the needs of each individual and is intended to help peopte keep a job or gain skitts for obtaining <br />employment. Kittitas County has received an average of around 51,000,000 per year for the past 5 <br />years from DDA. <br />Additionatty, per Revised Code of Washington 71 .20.110, counties are required to annually budget and <br />tevy a property tax for developmentat disabitities or mentat heatth services. ln Kittitas County, this tax <br />is split equatly between devetopmentat disabitities and mental heatth services. Commonty referred to <br />as "mi[tage", the county has discretion on how these funds are spent. The devetopmental disabitities <br />program has received around 5100,000 annualty from this tax over the past 2 years. <br />Kittitas County's developmentat disabitities (DD) program is overseen by the Kittitas County Pubtic <br />Health Department through a qualified and experienced DD Coordinator. The county pubtishes an open <br />Request for Quatifications (RFQ) to solicit quatified emptoyment support providers. Responses to the <br />RFQ are reviewed thoroughty by the DD Coordinator and DDA staff, and if quatifications are met, the <br />provider is placed on a list of avaitable employment seryices providers for ctients to choose from when <br />they quatify for services. A Request for Proposats (RFP) is also pubtished to soticit proposats from local <br />agencies who propose to provide indirect services retated to community information and education, <br />training, and/or other activities that wi[[ benefit peopte living with devetopmentat disabitities, their <br />famities, and/ or service providers. The proposals are reviewed by the DD Coordinator and the <br />Developmental Disabitities Advisory Committee, who make funding recommendations for approvat by <br />the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners. <br />DD services funded by DDA fatt into two major categories: Consumer Support Services and Additionat <br />Consumer Services, each of which contain several different specific services that can be provided. <br />Each type of service as well as the targeted outcomes for that service are described betow. <br />Approximately 5% of the Additional Consumer Services funding is set aside each year for emerging <br />needs that may come about during the biennium, such as new trainings or sponsorships. <br />13