Welcome to COCO's Home Page

About COCO - Coalition of Californians for Olmstead:

• COCO Fact Sheet

• COCO Membership criteria

About Olmstead in California:

• What is Olmstead and Why Should You Care?

• What Is Happening in California to Implement Olmstead?

• COCO response to complete Olmstead plan, dated 3/21/03

• COCO letter to CHHS, dated 3/5/03

• COCO final consolidated comments on Draft 3, 3/4/0

• COCO letter to CHHS, dated 2/27/03

• COCO Olmstead Recommendations List

Background documents:

• NAPAS key elements of Olmstead Plans

• Assessment parameters

• Housing resources

• Housing programs for people with disabilities

• A Tale of Two Settings: Institutional and Community-Based Mental Health Services in California since Realignment in 1991

• Olmstead and children

COCO Planning for Olmstead Implementation:

• Olmstead Background Information

• COCO Survey - Cover and instructions

• COCO Planning Survey

Links to other resources:

• State Olmstead page - http://www.chhs.ca.gov/olmstead.html

• CMS letters on Olmstead - http://cms.hhs.gov/olmstead/smdltrs.asp

• Other Olmstead plans - http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/olmplans.htm

• Promising practices in long-term care - http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/promprac.htm

• Olmstead information; report on state efforts - http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/ONCSLrep.htm#o

• States' Response to the Olmstead Decision: A Work in Progress (2002) - http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/forum/olmsreport.htm

• Olmstead home page - http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/olmstead-home.htm

• California/s Self-Determination Waiting List - for people with disabilities who want to direct their own lives - http://www.cawaitinglist.com/