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.
Public Meeting to be Held Regarding Purchase of Services Differences on 11/18
Lanterman Regional Center will be hosting a public meeting on:
- Wednesday, November 18, 2020 in English at 6 p.m. via Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting, which is being held as part of the board of directors meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpfu2sqTgtE9SWcqXvhNIzJkXW5nRoCZVS
After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the meeting.
During the meeting we will be reviewing data on the disparity in purchased services for Lanterman clients related to age, race, primary language and disability.
These meetings are held to comply with (Welfare & Institutions Code, 4519.5) that calls for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) and regional centers to annually compile data relating to purchase of service authorization, utilization and expenditures, and report with respect to several indicators including age, race, language and disability. Each year, this data will be compiled and posted by the regional center by December 31 for the prior fiscal year with public meetings to be held by the following March 31.
The Spanish meeting was held on March 10, but the March 25 English meeting was postponed due to COVID-19 and has been rescheduled to November 18, 2020.