The purpose of this report is fourfold: 1) to present a brief overview of the results of the Systems Change grants awarded from FY 2001 through FY 2004, 2) to describe the remaining challenges to community living that Grantees identified, 3) to provide Grantees’ recommendations for actions needed at the state and federal level to further improve their long-term care systems, and 4) to discuss the key lessons learned regarding factors that are needed to improve states’ long-term care systems. 

O’Keeffe, Janet; Harahan, Mary; O’Keeffe, Christine; Anderson, Wayne 

Real Choice Systems Change; LIFE Accounts; Family2Family; Respite; RFA; RFC; CTAC; FTF; FTF; REBAL; CSR; EPDST; MHST; HOUSE; System Transformation; LIFE Accounts; Family2Family; Comprehensive Systems Reform Grantees; Integrating Long-Term Supports with Affordable Housing Grantees; Mental Health Systems Transformation Grantees; Portals from Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment to Adult Supports Grantees; Rebalancing; 

Aging Issues, Consumer/Participant Direction, Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities, Financing HCBS, Long-Term Care, Money Follows the Person, Organizational Change, Physical Disabilities, Quality, Resource Center, Single Point of Entry/No Wrong Door, Transition/Diversion from Institutions 

Reports 

RTI - Systems Change Evaluation 

Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Commonwealth Northern Mariana Islands, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, All States/Territories 

10/07/2009 

Christine O’Keeffe
RTI International

cokeeffe@rti.org