own family.” My name is Kelley Malone and I serve as director of communications with the Council -- it's my pleasure to be a part of this webinar today. Let's briefly review our agenda today so you know what to expect. We will begin with Patricia Sastoque who will provide an overview of the developmental disabilities administration and Joyce Sims will be talking about the essentials and Cristy Marchand will be talking about eligibility. And then we will have time for questions and answers. Okay and, I will turn the microphone over to Patricia Sastoque. >> Kelley, thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. I think we have lots of good information from everyone. Hopefully by the time you finish all of the three webinars, people can get a really good overview of the developmental disabilities administration. As you all know, this is not just a one direction, but it's a collaboration between families, advocates, individuals and services in our community. So hopefully, I am able to give you a good overview of who we are, what we do and the next step. So what you see in front on your screen is just an overview so that you can see that -- how we are organized. And you can see that we are actually under the governor's office and we are under the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the developmental administration, so you can see where we stand in the spectrum of the big picture across the state. Our next slide has information about our goals, our mission and our vision. And I think that this is really important for folks to be able to see, so that we know that our major goal is to make sure that all Marylanders lead personally fulfilling lives. We got this information from what you said you wanted and what we feel we need to be doing for Marylanders for those with disabilities. We want to provide programmatic leadership in the design and development of services to afford people with developmental disabilities and their families with a system that is responsive to the person's needs and person outcomes. We need to make this system a place that you feel that you can go to and get very clear information about what we are doing to make it user friendly and not make it very complicated for you to navigate our system. Our vision is to have people with developmental disabilities, be able to direct their own lives, have available support options and have the opportunity to make decisions. That is really very important. An overall on the next slide, you'll see is an
own family.” My name is Kelley Malone and I serve as director of communications with the Council -- it's my pleasure to be a part of this webinar today. Let's briefly review our agenda today so you know what to expect. We will begin with Patricia Sastoque who will provide an overview of the developmental disabilities administration and Joyce Sims will be talking about the essentials and Cristy Marchand will be talking about eligibility. And then we will have time for questions and answers. Okay and, I will turn the microphone over to Patricia Sastoque. >> Kelley, thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. I think we have lots of good information from everyone. Hopefully by the time you finish all of the three webinars, people can get a really good overview of the developmental disabilities administration. As you all know, this is not just a one direction, but it's a collaboration between families, advocates, individuals and services in our community. So hopefully, I am able to give you a good overview of who we are, what we do and the next step. So what you see in front on your screen is just an overview so that you can see that -- how we are organized. And you can see that we are actually under the governor's office and we are under the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the developmental administration, so you can see where we stand in the spectrum of the big picture across the state. Our next slide has information about our goals, our mission and our vision. And I think that this is really important for folks to be able to see, so that we know that our major goal is to make sure that all Marylanders lead personally fulfilling lives. We got this information from what you said you wanted and what we feel we need to be doing for Marylanders for those with disabilities. We want to provide programmatic leadership in the design and development of services to afford people with developmental disabilities and their families with a system that is responsive to the person's needs and person outcomes. We need to make this system a place that you feel that you can go to and get very clear information about what we are doing to make it user friendly and not make it very complicated for you to navigate our system. Our vision is to have people with developmental disabilities, be able to direct their own lives, have available support options and have the opportunity to make decisions. That is really very important. An overall on the next slide, you'll see is an
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