SELF-DETERMINATION PEER SUPPORT
Available for SDP Funding Under Service Code #320 When Authorized
Individualized peer support from someone who actually lives Self-Determination.
Navigating California’s Self-Determination Program can require consumers to manage planning meetings, providers, FMS requirements, spending-plan decisions, paperwork, communications, and systems that can quickly become overwhelming.
Henny Kupferstein, Ph.D. provides individualized peer support informed by lived experience as an autistic SDP participant and professional experience helping consumers understand and participate in their own planning.
Individualized Peer Support May Include
- Preparing for IPP and SDP planning meetings
- Identifying needs, goals, and barriers
- Organizing IPP outcomes and requested supports
- Reviewing planning documents with the consumer
- Helping consumers understand regional center and FMS communications
- Preparing questions for meetings
- Provider and service-navigation support
- Identifying action items and helping consumers follow through
- Building self-advocacy and self-direction skills
- Organizing records and planning materials
- Peer mentoring based on lived SDP experience
- Helping consumers learn how to actively participate in their own planning
I can guide, review, explain, identify issues, and help you develop the skills to navigate the program. The consumer remains in control of their choices, providers, goals, and planning.
Two Ways to Participate
FREE COMMUNITY PEER SUPPORT
Join our private SDP Facebook group for participant-to-participant questions, shared knowledge, and community peer support:
Join the SDP Peer Support Group
INDIVIDUALIZED PROFESSIONAL PEER SUPPORT
Consumers who need dedicated one-to-one assistance may engage me for individualized professional peer-support services.
Professional rate: $250/hour
Services may be paid privately or, when included and authorized in the participant’s individual SDP plan and spending plan, funded through the appropriate SDP service category, including Service Code #320 Community Living Supports when applicable.
About Henny
Henny Kupferstein, Ph.D.
Autistic professional • Self-Determination Program participant
Qualified expert on informed consent for nonspeaking, ASL, and AAC users
Self-Determination means having support to make your own decisions, not having someone else make them for you.
