DEPARTMENT OF DISABILITIES

DEFUNCT AGENCIES

CHILDREN'S POLICY
In August 2007, absorbed into Education Policy.

COMMUNITY INTEGRATION POLICY
Reorganized as Community Living Policy in 2008.

HOUSING POLICY
Function transitioned to Chief of Staff in late 2007.

LONG-TERM CARE POLICY
In August 2007, renamed Community Intergration Policy.

PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Personal Assistance Services Advisory Committee formed under the Office of Personal Assistance Services in July 2005 (Chapter 439, Acts of 2005). The Committee advised the Department on personal care, attendant care, and home care services. The Committee guided the Department in the development of standards for the training of personal care workers; determining the feasibility of establishing a registry for personal care workers or a referral system of individual providers; and setting compensation levels for personal care workers.

Appointed by the Governor to three-year terms, the Committee consisted of twenty-one members (Code Human Services Article, secs. 7-135 through 7-140).

Abolished Oct. 1, 2010 (Chapter 207, Acts of 2010).

TASK FORCE ON SELF-DIRECTED MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Staff: Thomas Merrick (410) 402-8305

Appointed by Secretary of Disabilities & Executive Director, Mental Hygiene Administration, Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene:
Janice Brathwaite, Co-Chair
Michael S. Finkle, Co-Chair
Lynn Albizo, Esq.; Laura Cain; Pat Fogarty; Amanda Folsom; Eileen Hansen; Emily Hoffman; Craig Knoll; Deana C. Krizan; Jeanne Medlin; Karen Rever; Alycia Steinberg; Robin Travers; Lou Van Hollen; Alexis Zoss.

In March 2005, the Secretary of Disabilities and the Executive Director of the Mental Hygiene Administration, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, convened the Task Force on Self-Directed Mental Health Care.

The Task Force developed recommendations for establishing a pilot program that would allow those who use mental health services to devise their own service program, consistent with the recommendations of the federal New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.

In November 2005, the Task Force reported its recommendations to the Department of Disabilities and the Mental Hygiene Administration. The Task Force continued to meet until some time in 2007 to oversee implementation of its recommendations.

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