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Accreditation
Accreditation is a way to examine the extent to which an organization meets specified external standards. It involves comparing an organization’s actual performance with existing industry standards of operation. Skilled and trained surveyors/peer reviewers from a third party accrediting body check an organization against national or international standards. The same standards of the accrediting body are used for all similar organizations surveyed.
Advisory Committee
A 10-member committee that provides CLBC’s board with a provincial point of view in these areas: reviewing satisfaction levels with CLBC’s services by gathering information through members’ communication networks, and making recommendations for improvements in CLBC’s Service Plan and Strategic Plan; recommending policy and practice to improve quality of life for people served by CLBC; exploring long range issues that may affect CLBC and recommending solutions; and collecting and sharing information throughout BC on new support options.
Analyst
A CLBC staff member, who makes decisions on requests for funding and/or services and monitors contracts, assesses system gaps, develops increased provider capacity, ensures a crisis response capacity exists in local communities, and works to improve the effectiveness of contracted services.
Catalogue of Services
A tool used by an analyst to identify the type and cost of available services, while providing the flexibility needed to develop new options. The catalogue facilitates consistency in contracting and promotes transparency and equity in the allocation of financial resources.
Child/Youth and Family Support Plan
A plan that families can develop on their own, or with the assistance of a CLBC facilitator, personal network members, friends or other trusted advisors, that identifies how their child’s or youth’s disability related needs will be met, and what their goals are for living in the community.
Community Council
A voluntary body in each of the 17 community living centre areas that operates using guidelines established by CLBC and whose roles include stimulating new service approaches, helping to set local budget priorities and providing feedback on how CLBC and service providers at the community level are responding to the needs of individuals and families.
Community Governance
A model of decision making authority in which those most impacted by disability, including individuals with developmental disabilities, family members, and others with a significant connection to disability play a central role in governing the delivery of services and supports to adults with disabilities and children and youth with special needs and their families.
Community Inclusion Services
Activities funded by CLBC that an individual can participate in within their home community, for example, employment services, individualized supports and community based programs.
Community Living Authority Act
An act of the BC legislature that provides the statutory basis for CLBC.
Developmental Disability
Presence of a developmental disability is determined through an assessment provided by a registered or certified psychologist.
Direct Funding
A fixed amount of funding provided directly to an individual or family so they may purchase a specified service.
Facilitator
A CLBC staff member, who confirms eligibility, provides information, advice and practical support to eligible individuals and families, independent from service providers and CLBC funding decisions, to assist them to develop and implement individual support plans.
Generic Services
Services, supports, medical treatment or life style choices that are available to the general public. Examples are public transportation systems, community recreation programs and hospitals.
Guide to Support Allocation
A tool that an analyst uses to provide guidance on the amount of funded support that should be provided to an adult with a developmental disability that is based on their disability related need.
Home Sharing Standards
Standards that have been developed specifically for smaller, unlicensed homes (home sharing) that are not required to be accredited. CLBC has identified 14 domains against which these homes are evaluated that range from individual care and support, and home environment to community inclusion.
Informal Community Supports
Support provided by family, friends, neighbours and community members that can include friendship as well as practical, emotional, psychological and material support. By definition, informal community supports are provided outside of formal and typically government funded services.
Individualized Funding
Money allocated by CLBC to an individual or family member to enable them to pay for supports and/or services to meet their disability related needs that have been identified in a support plan. The amount of funding is based on the person’s identified disability related needs.
Individual Support Plan
A plan that adult individuals can develop on their own, or with the assistance of a CLBC facilitator, personal network members, friends or other trusted advisors that identifies how the person’s disability related needs will be met, and what their goals are for living in the community.
Person Centred Planning
A process, as well as a product, that is owned and controlled by the person (and sometimes their closest family and friends). There are no prescribed forms, tick boxes or checklists; the resulting support plan is totally individual and creates a comprehensive portrait of the person and what they want to do with their life. It brings together all of the people who are important to the person including family, friends, neighbours, support workers and other professionals involved in their lives.
Provincial Assessment Centre
A designated 10-bed provincial mental health facility that provides multi-disciplinary assessments, diagnosis, medication reviews and recommendations for individuals with a dual diagnosis who are 14 years and older experiencing emotional or other severe behavioural issues or challenges.
Safeguards
Mechanisms that are used to ensure people are kept safe and not put at increased risk because of their vulnerabilities. Safeguards include formal safeguards such as those provided by community care licensing, accreditation standards, legislation and service monitoring by CLBC analysts, and informal safeguards provided through community visibility, caring and supportive relationships, informal monitoring and visitation programs by community members and increased social consciousness.
Service Provider
A person or organization delivering community living support under an agreement with CLBC or a person authorized by CLBC.
Shared Care
A model being developed by CLBC that will provide families with individualized, flexible, out-of-home living supports for children with special needs.
Successful Practices Guide
This guide accompanies the Home Sharing Standards and provides home sharing contractors with information, ideas and materials on promising or successful practices to assist them to effectively support individuals within the community and their homes.
Unbundling
A process in which funding that is part of an overall agency budget (also known as global or block funding) is (re) allocated to individuals taking into account their disability related needs. |
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