Responsibilities.
The Public Authority shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
(a) Provide assistance to recipients in finding in-home supportive services personnel through the establishment of a registry.
(b) Investigate the qualifications and background of potential in-home supportive services personnel.
(c) Establish a referral system under which in-home supportive services personnel shall be referred to recipients.
(d) Provide for training for providers and recipients; provided, however, that the Public Authority shall not be obligated to provide training directly, to pay for training provided privately or in the community, to pay providers for the time spent in training, to accompany recipients to training, to pay for transportation to training, or to pay for any materials required by the training. The Public Authority also shall not be obligated to screen or be responsible for the content of any training it informs providers or recipients is available in the community (i.e., not provided directly by the Public Authority), or to ensure that any provider or recipient attend or complete any training.
(e) Ensure that the requirements of the personal care option pursuant to Subchapter 19 (commencing with Section 1396) of Chapter 7 of Title 42 of the United States Code are met.
(f) Develop written procedures to address consumer and consumer representative complaints related to a provider’s delivery of in-home supportive services.
(g) Adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the Public Authority consistent with the provisions of this Article.
(h) Perform other functions related to the delivery of in-home supportive services as may hereafter be prescribed by law. (§ 1, Ord. 1270, eff. September 27, 2001)