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Community Blueprint for Safe, High-Quality Licensed Residences:
Workgroup Interest Form
Over the past several months, the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Regional Family Support Planning Councils, and the Office of the Ombudsman for Individuals
with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and Their Families have gathered extensive community input to inform the Community Blueprint for Safe, High-Quality Licensed Residences. Through listening sessions, a survey, and a memo to Governor-Elect Mikie Sherrill, we identified strengths, challenges, and opportunities in New Jersey’s licensed residential services for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD).
with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities and Their Families have gathered extensive community input to inform the Community Blueprint for Safe, High-Quality Licensed Residences. Through listening sessions, a survey, and a memo to Governor-Elect Mikie Sherrill, we identified strengths, challenges, and opportunities in New Jersey’s licensed residential services for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD).
Based on this input, we have created seven workgroups that reflect the stakeholder priorities. These will launch in phases over the next four months.
- Timeline of workgroups (sign-up periods and first meeting dates) - please click here.
- Summary of the workgroups and their objectives - please click here.
- Background resources (We strongly encourage you to review the resources before signing up for the workgroups): Listening sessions (YouTube), Community Blueprint, Memo to Governor-Elect Sherrill
In order to reflect diverse representations, we are working to create a balanced group of stakeholders that include: individuals with disabilities, family members, guardians, state representatives, provider agency representatives, frontline staff, support coordinators, and others.
Please note that this interest form is only for the first two workgroups:
(1) Abuse/Neglect: Investigations (Process, Oversight, & Enforcement) and
(2) Individual/Family/Guardian Partnership, Advocacy, & Rights.
Before signing up, we strongly encourage you to review all seven workgroups and their objectives, reflect on your current time commitments, and register only for the workgroups you are most interested in and able to meaningfully participate in.
We ask all participants to bring a spirit of respect, openness, and collaboration to these workgroups. Each voice is vital, and the aim is to collectively advance systems change that leads to safer, stronger, and higher-quality licensed residences for individuals with IDD across our state.
Please note that this interest form is only for the first two workgroups:
(1) Abuse/Neglect: Investigations (Process, Oversight, & Enforcement) and
(2) Individual/Family/Guardian Partnership, Advocacy, & Rights.
Before signing up, we strongly encourage you to review all seven workgroups and their objectives, reflect on your current time commitments, and register only for the workgroups you are most interested in and able to meaningfully participate in.
We ask all participants to bring a spirit of respect, openness, and collaboration to these workgroups. Each voice is vital, and the aim is to collectively advance systems change that leads to safer, stronger, and higher-quality licensed residences for individuals with IDD across our state.