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Voluntary Placement
Program (DDD)

What the program covers: The Voluntary Placement Program (VPP) offers a variety of supports to a child in a licensed placement outside the family home. This usually happens when a child's disabilities are so severe that the parents make a request for out-of-home placement, due solely on the child's disability. The child's disability may be so significant that it has an impact on the family's ability to manage their child in the family home. The parents retain custody of their child while the child receives support services in a placement outside the family home.

Who is eligible: DDD eligibility requires that a person meet all of the following conditions as defined in WAC 388-823:

A developmental disability is defined in RCW 71A.10.020(3) and must meet all of the following requirements. The developmental disability must currently:
  1. Be attributable to mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, or another neurological or other condition found by DDD to be closely related to mental retardation or requiring treatment similar to that required for individuals with mental retardation;
  2. Originate prior to age eighteen;
  3. Be expected to continue indefinitely; and
  4. Result in substantial limitations to an individual's adaptive functioning.
To be eligible for the VPP, the child must be under 18 years of age, meet DDD eligibility criteria, and have no abuse or neglect issues. In addition, a request for out-of-home placement requires that the parent make the request solely due to the child's disability as defined in RCW 74.13.350.

The VPP has no new funding at this time to serve additional children and is not currently accepting new entries. A parent may make a "written request for out-of-home placement" through their case manager and the child's name is entered into a database. Contact your nearest DDD office for an appointment.

Income and Resource Limits: None. When the child is eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the SSI amount is used for room and board in the licensed out-of-home placement.

Program Requirements: When a request is made to the child's case manager, the case manager first explores with the family all other DDD services the child may be eligible for that might support the child in the family home. The parents retain custody of the child and the right to make major medical and life altering decisions. The agreement for out-of-home placement is mutual and is an agreement between the parents and the division.

Other requirements: None.

How to apply/get services:
DSHS Division of Developmental Disabilities
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/ddd/eligible.shtml

Find a local office:
DSHS Division of Developmental Disabilities
Statewide Contacts: http://www.dshs.wa.gov/ddd/contacts.shtml

 

Modified: July 25, 2006
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