Contact Information
5115 Edmondson Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21229
Telephone: (410)945-4356
FAX: (410)945-4356
E-mail:
Web Address: TBA
Shared Support Maryland, Inc.
Services Offered
Supported Employment, Family Support Services, Individual Support Services, Community Supported Living Arrangements, Behavioral Support Services
Individuals Have the Following Types of Disabilities:
AIDS, Mental retardation, Mental Disorder, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis, Blindness/Severe Visual Impairment, Deafness/Severe Hearing Impairment, Behavioral Problems, Epilepsy/Seizure disorder, Head Injury, Orthopedic Impairment, Specific Learning Disability, Speech/Language Impairment, Spina Bifida, Spinal Cord Injury, Cystic Fibrosis, and other Neurological Impairment
Number of Individuals Currently Being Served: 20
Ages Served: All ages
Home Region of DDA: Central
Counties Served: Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore City, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, Kent, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties.
Year Established: 2006
Mission Statement
It is the mission of all Shared Support Maryland, Inc. stakeholders to assist the people it serves to participate in the joys, work and traditions of their chosen community.
Shared Support Maryland, Inc. Values:
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc. values its role as partners with families and friends in planning and achieving each person's lifestyle.
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc. values people's dreams and believe its role is to facilitate a path of learning, growth, problem solving and choice making.
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc. each person's path towards a dream and accept that everyone falls; it is its role to support the learning that can occur when mistakes are made, go back to the drawing board and begin again. Sometimes people fulfill their fondest desires. Most people, however, usually get a piece of their dream. They try, they succeed, and they fail, and revise their dream. People should decide for themselves when their dream has become unrealistic and unattainable. Shared Support Maryland, Inc. believes in supporting people in their efforts and help them build upon their dreams to make these dreams become a reality.
Unique or Distinctive Qualities
Shared Support Maryland, Inc. provides support through person direction, planning and organizational change accordingly to people with all levels of disability. Shared Support, Inc. provides a wide range of supports that are individualized to people that perhaps typically are referred to people with severe or profound disabilities. Regardless of disability people have the right to a quality of life that define and those that are paid by them help them to obtain.
Shared Support Maryland, Inc. provides Supports Brokerage through the New Directions Waiver (as well as through private pay). Shared Support Maryland, Inc. employs trained Support Brokers that comply with Shared Support, Inc. mission and values. Support Brokers responsibilities are not limited to the following:
- Complete training requirements as per the person's plan and request.
- For New Directions Waiver recipients support brokerage Support Broker Orientation conducted by DDA, et al is mandatory.
- Support person/family to develop the Person Directed Plan and Budget
- Support person/family to develop the Person Centered job description that the team will follow
- Support person/family to manage the budget
- Support person/family to develop and utilize an emergency back-up plan
- Support person/family to manage services, people and time.
- Support person/family to expand relationships, opportunities, skills, options and community connections.
- Support person/family to recruit, hire, supervise and terminate (if necessary) staff
- Support person/family to implement New Directions Individual Plan And Budget (MD)
- Support person/family to be advocates for their support and within a broader system.
- Advocate with and for the person/family
- Identify community and system resources that may assist the person/family to achieve what they want in life.
- Work as a member of a team that includes person/family, supporters, resource/service coordinators, fiscal managers, local community resources, TASH project My Life Going Far, local funding personnel and systems.
- Quality Assurance – circle meeting facilitation or co-facilitation, fundamental rights assurance, choice and control monitoring, incident reporting, following Shared Support Maryland, Inc's Continuous Quality Improvement plan.
- Any task accepted at a circle meeting or requested.
Shared Support Maryland, Inc. does not operate day programs, sheltered workshops or group homes. People choose their living situations, roommates and staff. People choose what they would like to do during the day, evening and weekend. This makes planning and implementation difficult at times and in the long run - people satisfied with their lives and the support they pay for.
Discuss How Your Agency Has Utilized The "Ask Me!" Survey Results.
Shared Support, Inc. has just received their operating license in Maryland. Shared Support Maryland, Inc. has not had the opportunity to engage in the "Ask Me!" process. In lieu of "Ask Me" results references (people and families that are the agency supports) are available upon request.
The "Ask Me!" Survey Results is available for the general public
Describe your quality assurance practices, including any agency accreditations
Shared Support Maryland, Inc. Values in Practice:
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc. believes that its values and philosophy must be implemented in its practices, organizational structure, Quality Assurance, and Continuous Quality Improvement Plan.
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc. measures its organization's success through the attainment of each individual's chosen outcomes. Shared Support, Inc. is successful when it has assisted someone to identify "How" he or she would like to live their life, concretely develop and attain personal outcomes.
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc. values and practices person centered planning as the cornerstone for all of its services. Every person has a person centered plan and a person centered job description identifying "Who" the person is, "What their desired outcomes are", Successful "Ways" of supporting the person, and "How" staff must spend their time in support of desired outcomes.
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc.'s organizational structure places resources and power closest to the individual and the people who care about and support them, (The Circle) to make decisions about services, resources, and necessary habilitation and treatment.
- Shared Support Maryland, Inc. values and practices a system of management that focuses on continuous quality improvement in four measurable categories:
- People are healthy and safe
- People have meaningful lives
- People learn skills and grow in ways that are important to them
- People and their families direct the supports and services that Shared Support Maryland, Inc. provides.
How Does Your Agency Support People In Becoming Active Members Of Their Community?
People Having Meaningful Lives is one facet of its Continuous Quality Improvement plan and one of the most important operational outcomes at Shared Support Maryland, Inc. Its Continuous Quality Improvement plan describes this:
The success of Shared Support Maryland, Inc. is measured by the level of each person's satisfaction, participation and self-direction of a meaningful life. Staff persons demonstrate a high level of knowledge regarding the individual's likes, dislikes, preferences, hopes, dreams, communication style, capacity and gifts, and knowledge of community resources, groups, traditions, and leisure opportunities. The support staff are long term stable employees of Shared Support, Inc.
A person Centered Plan exists that identifies who that person is and how they want to spend their days in meaningful activities - employment, volunteering, continuing education, retirement, etc. People have unpaid friends and family with whom they spend their time. Through the circle meeting process, develop and implement action plans that include people in community groups of their choice.
People engage work or meaningful day time activity. Through circle meeting process for each individual determine that they are participating in the day time activity they desire. Ensure that their choice of day time activity was an informed decision based on the wide array of options that are available to all people including; employment.
People have effective communication methods and skills to develop relationships and increase their participation in their community. People and their teams support the development of a wide array of communication tools or options for all people that includes the use of technology, and other non-verbal methods so they may make choices communicate preferences, develop relatioships, and contribute their gifts to the community.
Steps Individuals Must Take to Apply for Services
Please contact , (410)945-4356 phone/fax.
Special Considerations/Comments: N/A
Funding Sources: Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration and Fee for service.
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