Navigating The Office For People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) System: Oversight, Rights And Remedies

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Navigating The Office For People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) System: Oversight, Rights And Remedies

Navigating The Office For People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) System: Oversight, Rights And Remedies

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Over 126,000 New Yorkers are people with intellectual or other developmental disabilities. They are children and adults with a range of abilities and needs. The Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is responsible for assuring that services rendered are of high quality and effectiveness while engaging in oversight functions with other agencies so that the civil rights of people receiving services are protected.

Navigating the OPWDD system can be extremely challenging. This continuing legal education program is designed to demystify the OPWDD system and promote effective advocacy for people with disabilities and their families. A panel of experts will address:

Establishing eligibility for OPWDD services
Supports and services available in the OPWDD system
Role and function of Care Management Organizations
Willowbrook Consent Decree
Role of oversight agencies; and the
Rights of people receiving services

Start Date:

March 29, 2021

Start Time:

10:00 AM

End Time:

12:00 PM

Areas Of Professional Practice Credit(s):

Total Credit(s):

Region:

Virtual Participation

Agenda

10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

10:05 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.

Panel Discussion. Topics include:

Overview of Office for People with Developmental Disabilities

a) Eligibility

b) Medicaid Funding

c) Available Supports and Services

d) Willowbrook Class

Care Coordination Organizations

a) Structure

b) Role and Function

Oversight

a) Justice Center

b) Protection and Advocacy

c) Mental Hygiene Legal Service

d) Consumer Advisory Board and Class Counsel

Resident Rights

a) Informed Consent for Treatment, Vaccinations, Behavioral Interventions

b) Objections to Care and Treatment

c) Life Sustaining Treatment Decisions

11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Questions and Answers

Program Faculty

Alison K. Morris, Esq., Moderator, Cuddy Law Firm
Michael I. Fiske, Esq., Speaker, Mental Hygiene Legal Service
Lisa K. Friedman, Esq., Speaker, Lisa K. Friedman, Attorney at Law
Beth Haroules, Esq., Speaker, Senior Staff Attorney
Kathryn E. Jerian, Esq., Speaker, The Arc New York
Megan O'Connor-Hebert, Speaker, Care Design New York
Brendan H. Buschman, Esq., Program Chair, Bleakley Platt & Schmidt LLP
Sheila E. Shea, Esq., Program Chair, Mental Hygiene Legal Service

Format:

Webinar

Product Code:

0KG41

Section Member Price: $50.00

NYSBA Member Price: $100.00 Join (or renew) for special member pricing

Non-Member Price: $200.00

Sponsoring Committee Group

Elder Law & Special Needs Section
Committee on Disability Rights
Committee on Continuing Legal Education