Enhancing Transition through Microboards
Project Description:
A microboard consists of a focal individual and a small group of supportive adults who meet periodically to plan and make decisions about directing funding and arranging supports for the focal individual. This project will demonstrate a model process for allowing students and families to assume a larger role the transition planning process, and for making service funding more responsive to individual plans by establishing twelve pilot microboards in three regions of New Hampshire. The goals of the project are:
1. To develop an organizational framework for the establishment of microboards with the capability to exercise fiscal intermediary, employer-of-record, risk pool administration, and related services on behalf of project participants;
2. To establish functioning microboards for at least 36 transitioning students and families, and provide technical assistance and training to microboards on designing customized support networks combining informal or ?natural? supports with professional services, individual budgeting, negotiating service agreements and overseeing the quality of services, and utilizing a broad-base of financial resources to realize maximal value when purchasing supports and services;
3. Work with schools and adult funding agencies to create individual transition accounts for project participants that allow microboards to access service funding in a flexible and individualized manner;
4. Provide intensive training, mentoring, and ongoing networking to increase the supply of skilled facilitators available to facilitate the person-centered planning process; and
5. Examine the impact of microboards on a range of career, postsecondary education, independent living, and other individual transition outcomes by means of a randomized design using a comparison group of 36 students and families who receive assistance in designing a transition plan but do not establish microboards.
Keyword(s):
Transition Employment Microboard
Core Function(s):
Performing Research or Evaluation
Area of Emphasis
Employment-Related Activities, Other
Target Audience:
Family Members/Caregivers, General Public
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas, Rural/Remote
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
State
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
