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Department on Disability Services

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Listen

Fiscal Year 2015 Performance Oversight Hearing

Monday, March 14, 2016

Testimony of Laura L. Nuss

Director

Before the Committee on Health and Human Services Council of the District of Columbia

March 10, 2016

John A. Wilson Building

1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20004

Attachment(s):

Fiscal Year 2015 Performance Oversight Hearing

Person-Centered Thinking

Person-centered thinking is a philosophy behind service provision that supports positive control and self-direction of people’s own lives. DDS is working to implement this through training sessions and other agency wide initiatives.

Employment First Initiative

Two people clasping hand, one in wheelchair

Under the Employment First philosophy, competitive, integrated employment is the first and overwhelmingly preferred option for working-age youth and adults with disabilities.