Championing Dignity: A Support Broker’s Journey
Choose YOU First - A Self-Direction Podcast
Release Date: 10/19/2023
Personal Independence: Understanding EVV in Self-Direction!
Choose YOU First - A Self-Direction Podcast
"In the old days of EVV, that landline option really was one of the more prevalent options. But there are a ton of limitations that come with that. 1) It’s restricting somebody to the home. We know that services occur in the community and NEED to occur in the community. 2) It’s using a landline, which is becoming more and more outdated. […] So as things have evolved, mobile applications are much more user friendly for the provider AND also for the participants.” Third episode of Choose YOU First – A self-direction podcast by PPL Join host Andrew Thornton and guest Stacey Soucy...
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Championing Dignity: A Support Broker’s Journey
Choose YOU First - A Self-Direction Podcast
“Self-direction is really just giving someone the power to stay within the community, not go into a facility, and having power over living the way they want and receiving that care that they need. Then when you go into homes (as a support broker), you know, they're trusting you. And it's almost like you get an insight into their lives, you get to see what's working for them, what's not.” Second episode of Choose YOU First – A self-direction podcast by PPL Join host Kelli Barnett-Carey and guest Claude Schmincke as they talk about his journey helping others in Self-Direction. Claude...
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Empowering Choices: Suzanne Crisp on the History of Self-Direction
Choose YOU First - A Self-Direction Podcast
“When I first learned about Self-Direction, I thought what a neat idea. When I get old and gray and say I have some chronic illness […], am I going to want a stranger coming in, not knowing what time they were going to be there, who’s going to show up, […]? What I would like to do is I would like to self-direct.” FIRST episode of Choose YOU First – A self-direction podcast by PPL Join host Mark Altieri and guest Suzanne Crisp as they talk about the history and future of self-direction. Mark is the Vice President of Business Development for PPL, but Mark will tell you he...
info_outline“Self-direction is really just giving someone the power to stay within the community, not go into a facility, and having power over living the way they want and receiving that care that they need. Then when you go into homes (as a support broker), you know, they're trusting you. And it's almost like you get an insight into their lives, you get to see what's working for them, what's not.”
Second episode of Choose YOU First – A self-direction podcast by PPL
Join host Kelli Barnett-Carey and guest Claude Schmincke as they talk about his journey helping others in Self-Direction.
Claude Schmincke has been working in the self-direction space for about 30 years, first as the sibling of an individual in need of home support care, second as an employee taking care of their sibling as their paid job, third as a consultant at a small Fiscal Intermediary supporting his family and others in NJ, until his current role at Public Partnerships where he works tirelessly to truly make self-direction easier for all.
Throughout his life spent enmeshed in self-direction, he has gone to school at Boston University SFA, spent 10+ years in the Financial Business, lived and studied abroad at Aarhus Business Academy in Denmark, and returned to the United States to be happily married and look after two wonderful cats.
Kelli has been with PPL in all manner of roles for over 8 years. She loves to talk about self-direction and is passionate about making information on self-direction more accessible.