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State to centralize IDD licensing; Multnomah adds case managers while reporting large underfunding gap
Summary
Multnomah County's intellectual and developmental disabilities division told commissioners the state will centralize licensing (removing funding from the county), the county will add nine case management positions, but the division still reports an $6.7 million underfunding gap under the state workload model.
The county’s Division of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) told commissioners that statewide centralization of licensing will shift licensing oversight to the Oregon Office of Developmental Disabilities Services and remove related funding from county budgets, and that the division has both staffing losses and program growth to manage.
"Alexis Alberty, division director for intellectual and developmental disabilities," told the board the state is centralizing licensing and the county will lose five FTE in licensing funds as licensing moves to the state’s model. She said three adult care home licenser positions are vacant and two children’s certifier…
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