Task Force for Assessment of Services & Supports for People with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities to meet in New Albany and Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS—The next meetings of the Task Force for Assessment of Services & Supports for People with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 22, in New Albany, and Wednesday, Aug. 29, in Indianapolis. The meeting in New Albany will take place at Indiana University Southeast in the University Center Hoosier Room, 4201 Grant Line Road, New Albany, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT.  The meeting in Indianapolis will be at the Indiana Government Center South, Conference Room B, 302 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, also from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT.

The meetings are open to the public and will be streamed live. The link to the livestream is https://Indiana.AdobeConnect.com/taskforce1102/. Public comment will occur only at the New Albany location and at the beginning of the meeting so the task force can receive input regarding services and supports for people with disabilities. There will be no public comment at the Indianapolis meeting.

Requests for accommodations should be made by contacting Kristina Blankenship at Kristina.Blankenship@fssa.IN.gov at least 48 hours in advance of the task force meeting.

The task force was established by House Enrolled Act 1102 in the 2017 session of the Indiana General Assembly and will be chaired by Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch. The task force members were named by Governor Eric J. Holcomb in October, and will prepare a complete plan for implementation of community-based services provided to people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. 

For more information, visit: www.in.gov/fssa/ddrs/5455.htm.