Project Overview

California Community Choices is focused on developing California’s long-term care infrastructure to increase access to home and community-based services and to help divert persons with disabilities and older adults from unnecessary institutionalization.  The project seeks to:

• Establish two one-stop resource center pilot sites, California Aging and Disability Resource Centers (CAL ADRCs), to provide a coordinated system of information, referral and assistance for any person seeking long-term care services and supports
• Develop an integrated information system website prototype, CalCareNet, to be piloted at the two CAL ADRCs to provide up-to-date information on home and community-based long-term services and supports
• Complete a comprehensive study, with recommendations, to improve the State’s understanding of the financial and structural barriers to increasing access to home and community-based services

At the end of the five-year project period, California will have strategies and recommendations for its long-term care system, featuring replicable and sustainable models that empower consumers of long-term care. 

Updated 1/2/08