California law and regulation requires that regional centers display on their Web sites information about the dollar value of services they purchase for clients. These data (called "purchase of service" or "POS" data) must be reported separately by clients' ethnic/racial group, langauge and diagnosis.
Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) Orientation Training
Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) are health facilities licensed by the Licensing and Certification Division of the California Department of Public Health to provide 24-hour-per-day services. The four types of ICFs providing services for Californians with developmental disabilities in the community are describe on the DDS Web site at www.dds.ca.gov/LivingArrang/ICF.cfm.
Learn more about the ICF-DDH and ICF-DDN eight-hour orientation training requirement and training consultants who offer it at www.dds.ca.gov/ICF/EightHrTrng.cfm.