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Listed below are additional resources which may provide useful information or services:
Advocacy
Assistive Technology
Disability Awareness/Prevention
Disaster/Emergency Readiness
Family & Children
Glossary of Terms
Terminology and "lingo" in the developmental disability service system can be confusing. See below for terms used most often.
- WLI-Waiting List Initiative: Primary caregiver is age 55 or older and access to funding depends on availability and date of application.
- WLEF-Waiting list Equity Funds: Funding for individuals whose care providers are age 76 and older. Access to funding depends on availability.
- ISS-Individual Support Services: Services for adults that are not to exceed $5000, per fiscal year.
- FSS-Family Support Services: Services for children that are not to exceed $3000, per fiscal year.
- Crisis Resolution: Individual’s current situation must be critical. Individual may be eligible for immediate funding based on funding availability.
- Crisis Prevention: Individual’s name is on DDA’s waiting list. Individual may be eligible for available funds based on date of application.
- Current Request: Individual’s name is on DDA’s waiting list. Individual may be eligible for available funds based on date of application.
- Future Need: Individual’s name is on DDA’s waiting list. However, individual and family are not in dire need, or requesting services at this time.
Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
Legal (Civil) Assistance
Local and State
Low Intensity Support Services (LISS)
- Low Intensity Support Services: Low Intensity Support Services (LISS) is a statewide program funded through the Developmental Disability Administration (DDA). LISS funding is flexible, dynamic and adaptable to the needs of the individual. LISS is designed to make use of community resources, building on the individual's existing support network, while providing a short-term solution for a problem. LISS is preventive in nature, creative, flexible, responsive and time limited to assist children and adults with developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life, remain in their own homes, increase or maintain independence, and participate in their communities. LISS may be accessed multiple times throughout a year and across multiple years. It cannot exceed $3,000 in one year. Families and individuals must be specific in their requests. The agencies administering LISS in Baltimore City and Baltimore County are Humanim and PennMar
Recreation
Seminars, Workshops & Training Literature
Special Needs Trust/Estate Planning
Robert K. Briskin, Esq.
Law Offices of Robert K. Briskin
rkbriskin@comcast.net
Edwin G. Fee, Esq.
Partner
Whiteford, Taylor and Preston, Esq.
efee@wtplaw.com
Michael C. Hodes, Esq.
Hodes Pessin & Katz, PA
mhodes@hpklegal.com
James A. List, Esq.
The Law Offices of James A. List, LLC
jalist@jalistlaw.com
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS)
info@mvlslaw.org
Nomiki B. Weitzel, Esq.
Law Offices of Nomiki Boulou Bassis Weitzel and Associates, LLC
NBWOffice@aol.com
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