Annual Public Meeting Summary Reports
Annual meeting summary reports reflect discussions held by ACRC with stakeholders summarizing suggestions, recommendations, and plans.
Summary Reports
DDS Letter 2020 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2019 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2018 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2017 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2016 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2015 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2014 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2013 POS Data Meetings
Expenditure and Demographic Data
Purchase of Service (POS)
The attachments below provide information about Alta’s Purchase of Service (POS) expenditures as required under section 4519.5 of the Welfare and Institutions code.
Purchase of Service Reports
POS Data 2019-20 English
POS Data 2019-20 Spanish
POS Data 2018-19 English
POS Data 2018-19 Spanish
POS Data 2017-18 English
POS Data 2017-18 Spanish
POS Data 2016-17 English
POS Data 2016-17 Spanish
POS Data 2015-16 English
POS Data 2015-16 Spanish
POS Data 2014-15
POS Data 2013-14
POS Data 2012-13
POS Data 2011-12
ACRC Workshops
Diversity Grant
ACRC provided workshops and webinars to staff, parents, and vendors of ACRC about topics that matter to them. Examples of the workshop topics provided include legal planning for an adult child, understanding Home and Community-Based Services Waiver (also known as the Medicaid Waiver), understanding the Individual Education Program (IEP) in English and Spanish, In home support services (IHSS) in English and Spanish, Culturally sensitive needs assessment and interviewing for service coordinators.
- Desarrollo infantil
- Culturally Sensitive Assessment and Interviewing
- Understanding In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) and COVID-19
- Comprensión de los Servicios de Apoyo en el Hogar y COVID-19
- Participation in the Individual Education Plan
- Participación en el Plan de Educación Individualizado
- Child Development
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Cultural Competency Trainings
Diversity Grant
ACRC provided a foundational training to service coordinators and vendors on cultural competency and proficiency. This was followed by culture-specific trainings to promote sensitivity to the multi-ethnic communities served by ACRC. The presentations on each of the trainings provided are below.
- Cross Culture Communication
- Cultural Proficiency
- Chinese and Chinese-Americans
- East Asian
- Japanese and Japanse-Americans
- Korean and Korean-Americans
- Hispanic and Latino Community
- Hmong and Hmong-Americans
- Laos and Laotian-Americans
- Philippines and Filipino-Americans
- Slavic Culture
- Southeast Asian
- Thailand and Thai-Americans
- Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans
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Enhanced Respite
Diversity Grant
This project aimed to increase access to respite services to meet specific cultural and linguistic needs of consumers and their families. ACRC partnered with UCP Family Respite and Tricounty Respite Care to collaborate on the implementation of the project. ACRC conducted focus group discussions with the Hispanic-Latinx, Hmong, Punjabi, and Slavic families. The grant also allowed for the creation of family respite guide translated in the target populations’ languages.
Interpreting System
Diversity Grant
The Electronic Interpreting system purchased through grant funds allows for multiple people within a group setting to hear an oral translation of a presentation by an interpreter. The system has 4 transmitters and 16 receivers. The system has been utilized during ACRC’s annual meeting regarding expenditures allowing the translation of the presentation to Spanish and Vietnamese participants. The system has also been used for other ACRC activities including Self-determination trainings.
Service Navigator Program
Diversity Grant
The Service Navigator Program is a collaboration with Warmline Family Resource Center continuing through February 2022 to assist families with clients transitioning from school to adult services. This program provides support to Hispanic-Latinx families, African-American, and Slavic families of Early Start children (from birth to 3), and transition-age and adults ages 17 to 40 year old. Information about the program and its goals are below. Más información en español.
Service Navigator Program Presentation
Service Navigator Program Frequently Asked Questions
Targeted Outreach
Diversity Grant
The Targeted Outreach/Information Session grant allowed ACRC to conduct extensive information sessions to Hispanic-Latinx communities as well as the Hmong communities. ACRC also attended many culture-specific events such as the Hmong New Year, the Aloha Festival, and the MLK 365 Diversity Fair. ACRC partnered with the Health Education Council, the Ventanilla de Salud, the WeEmbrace foundation and many other healthcare sponsored diversity fairs. This grant project also allowed for topic-specific outreach provided to English-speaking families and the monolingual families served
Threshold Language Translations
Diversity Grant
A grant from the Disparity Funds Program allowed ACRC to translate important resource materials into 8 different threshold languages including Arabic, Hmong, Punjabi, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Spanish. You can view the resource materials available in multiple languages by navigating to Publications and Brochures.