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Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee

Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee New!

House Bill 3618 requires that the Home Care Commission to create a Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee.

What is the purpose of this committee?

• The committee will review issues related to (but not limited to) the areas below:
  • Qualifications for personal support workers;
  • Registration of personal support workers;
  • Referrals for routine, emergency, and respite care;
  • Training opportunities for personal support workers; and
  • Collective bargaining.

Who can be a committee member?

• The Commission shall appoint members to the committee. In appointing members to the committee, the Commission shall include at least one:
  • Consumer of services, activities, or purchases available to persons with developmental disabilities;
  • Consumer of services, activities, or purchases available to persons with mental illnesses;
  • Family member of a person with a developmental disability;
  • Family member of a person with a mental illness;
  • Advocate for persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses;
  • Personal support worker;
  • Representative from an agency that assists persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in finding and arranging resources for home care services; and
  • Representative from a support services brokerage that assists persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in finding and arranging resources for home care services.

Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee ~ Interest Application Form

• Individuals, family members, advocates, brokerages, and agencies interested in appointment to the committee will need to complete an interest application.

Interest Application form New!

• Available in PDF format.

DD-MH Committee meeting agendas and minutes are available on the OHCC Meetings page.

Brochures

• Oregon Home Care Commission 

Developmental Disabilities/Mental Health Committee

Oregon Home Care Commission

676 Church Street NE

Salem OR 97301-2401

Phone:  503.378.2733

Email:  DD-MH.OHCC@state.or.us