SD9 - Expanding the Auxiliary Grants Program

  • Published: 1987
  • Author: Department of Social Services
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 62 (Regular Session, 1986)

Executive Summary:
The report contained herein is being submitted pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 62, passed by the 1986 Session of the General Assembly. The Departments of Social Services and Mental Health and Mental Retardation were directed to plan to expand the Auxiliary Grants Program to include as eligible recipients residents of facilities other than Homes for Adults.

This report was prepared by the Department of Social Services with assistance from the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the Department of Medical Assistance Services, the Department of Health, the Department of Rehabilitative Services, and the Department for the Rights of the Disabled. It reviews the history of the Auxiliary Grants Program, the eligibility criteria for the Supplemental Security Income Program, and funding issues and regulatory conflicts which impinge on expansion of the program. The report also examines various options for expansion of the Auxiliary Grants Programs and concludes that increasing the range of housing with community support services for the mentally disabled can be achieved with fewer constraints in ways other than expansion of the Auxiliary Grants Program.