Self Determination Resources, Inc.

Self Determination Resources, Inc. is a support services brokerage, working with people who have developmental disabilities. The overarching goal of SDRI is to assist people with developmental disabilities and their families to achieve true choice and control of the supports and resources available to them.

Examples of supports that people receive are job training and retention skills, help with budgeting, meal planning, bus passes to get out in the community, recreational activities like camps or field trips, respite care, adapting appliances to your needs, installing ramps or grab bars and augmentative communication devices.

Service Area: Washington

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Products/Services

Brokerage Support Services

Personal agents work with customers to access the help and supports needed, by developing a plan that is specifically tailored to customers' needs. Personal agents can help determine goals and create a plan to make them happen, help create a budget for the plan, hire and coordinate support staff.

Full Service Brokerage

Full service brokerage is designed to assist individuals with developmental disabilities achieve the supports they need by providing an array of supports. These supports include:

-Brokering Services: The linking of people with disabilities or their families with community-based supports they need or desire. These supports may be supplied by existing organizations or professionals capable of providing the needed supports or by Self-Determination Resources, Inc. (SDRI), if appropriate. This function may also include assistance in researching and securing the resources they need to acquire supports. This function will also include assisting people with disabilities to identify and establish a support network of individuals who are willing and able to support that person on an ongoing basis or otherwise serve in a supportive role.
-Individual planning and budgeting: All individual planning activities will be based on person centered planning techniques. In addition, SDRI staff will assist people in developing a specific individualized support budget from the resources available to them for the purchase of supports. This individual budget will be used in securing the supports they need or lifestyle they desire.
-Fiscal intermediary services: Administrative support services are available to persons with disabilities and their families to help manage the support funds made available to them.
-Training and technical assistance: Persons with disabilities or their families may need an array of skills to fully assume control of their supports and achieve their desired lifestyles. Skills such as managing and supervising paid employees, resource management, negotiating skills, assertiveness and decision making are examples. SDRI staff will provide this training on an as-needed basis.
-Community education and development: It is recognized that the ongoing education of the general community about persons with disabilities and their families is still needed. Additionally, the natural supports and opportunities that the general community has to offer must be further developed to add traditional resources used by people with disabilities and their families to achieve their support needs. SDRI staff will engage in both of these activities since both of these activities are critical if the concept of self-determination is to be achieved.