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Records of Governor Kaine's Office of Community Integration for People with Disabilities, 2002-2009. Accession 44697, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
Transferred from the Office of Governor Kaine on 14 January 2010.
A 1999 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C., found that the segregation of persons with disabilities constituted discrimination in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. As prescribed by this decision, compliance required that individuals with disabilities receive services in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs, so that people with disabilities could become as fully integrated in the community as they chose to be. Following the Supreme Court decision, Governor Mark Warner convened the Virginia Olmstead Task Force in 2002. In their One Community report, this 70 member Task Force laid out a vision of Virginia becoming one community for people with disabilities that included 201 recommendations for individual choice of and access to services and supports; sufficient numbers of qualified providers; safe, available, accessible, and affordable housing and transportation; an opportunity to work; a full continuum of care, from self care through institutional care; and accountability to everyone. Julie Stanley was named director of the Office of Community Integration for People with Disabilities in 2004.
Governor Warner's Executive Order 61 (2004) provided for the infrastructure and process to continue the work that the Task Force began by creating a four cabinet-member, 18 state agency Community Integration Implementation Team, a 19 member stakeholder Community Integration Oversight Advisory Committee, and a Director of the Office of Community Integration for People with Disabilities. The Community Integration Implementation Team was charged with completing cost out and updates to the 201 recommendations in One Community, the Report of the Olmstead Task Force; working to ensure collaborative efforts to complete and annually update a comprehensive cross-governemental strategic plan designed to ensure continued community integration, and to annually report to the Governor on accomplishments. The Community Integration Oversight Advisory Committee was tasked with overseeing the implementation of of the Olmstead v. L.C. decision in Virginia; advising the Community Integration Implementation Team and receiving their reports; and preparing reports making recommendations to the Governor. They were also responsible for monitoring the implementation of state and federal laws concerning community integration of Virginians with disabilities; studying all matters that present barriers or challenges to full community integration; and advising and making recommendations to the Director and Implementation Team and reviewing and advising them on the strategic plan. Executive Order 84 (2005) continued the implementation of the Olmstead Initiative.
Governor Kaine continued the Olmstead initiative with the issuance of Executive Order 2 (2006) and directed the Community Integration Implementation Team to work with stakeholder groups to develop a cross-governmental strategic plan for community integration, with input from the Community Integration Oversight Advisory Board. Also in 2006, the General Assembly codified the advisory group as the Community Integration Advisory Commission (SB 182, 2006) within the exectuive branch to monitor the progress of all executive branch agencies toward community integration of Virginians with disabilities in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws and to make appropriate recommnedations to the Governor (Code of Virginia 2.2-2524). In 2007, Governor Kaine issued Executive Directive 6, which directed state agencies and entities to continue their collaborative efforts to complete the implementation of the Olmstead initiative and to annually complete and update a comprehensive, cross-governmental strategic plan and report to the Governor on the progress of implementation.
The records document the work of the Office of Community Integration for People with Disabilities, the Community Integration Oversight Advisory Committee/Board, and the Community Integration Implementation Team to review and cost out the Virginia Olmstead Task Force recommendations and develop a comprehensive cross-governmental strategic plan for community integration. These records include correspondence, legislative files, meeting records and minutes, presentations, reports and subject files.
This collection is arranged into the following series:
Series I. Director's correspondence and subject files, 2004-2009; Series II. Legislation, 2004-2009; Series III. Meetings, 2005-2008; Series IV. Presentations, 2003-2009; Series V. Olmstead Task Force Recommendations, 2004-2005; Series VI. Reports, 2004-2005.Director's correspondence and subject files, 2004-2009, are housed in 6 boxes and arranged alphabetically. Includes correspondence, as well as cost reports, executive orders, notes, plans, programs, reports and studies. Topical files cover education, employment, executive orders, grants, housing, independent living, mental health, Olmstead Task Force recommendations, reporting, strategic planning, training, transportation, and both the Community Integration Implementation Team and Community Integration Oversight Advisory Committee.
Legislation files, 2004-2009, are housed in 2 boxes and are arranged chronologically. These files track legislation that is of interest to the Office of Community Integration for People with Disabilities and include drafts of bills and bill tracking spreadsheets, as well as calendars, correspondence, committee meeting agendas, presentations and talking points, reports, and miscellaneous notes.
Meeting records, 2004-2008, are housed in two boxes and are arranged chronologically. Contains records for the Community Integration Implementation Team and the Community Integration Advisory Commission (previously the Olmstead Initiative Community Integration Oversight Advisory Committee), as well as joint meetings of the two bodies. Includes agendas, articles, correspondence, minutes, notes, presentations, reports, sign-in sheets and strategic planning working papers. This collection also includes audio recordings for some of the meetings - audio tape list is available in receipt file. Please contact Archives Reference if you would like to use these tapes, as special arrangements will need to be made.
Presentations, 2003-2009, are housed in 3 boxes and are arranged chronologically. The majority of the presentations are by Director Julie Stanley, though some presentations by others are included as well. Presentations were made to the legislature, commissions, boards, and various others groups, as well as at conferences, and address the work of the Office of Community Integration for People with Disabilities and issues faced by those with disabilities and their families. Includes speeches, presentation slides, notes, meeting agendas, talking points, and conference materials and programs. Folders are identified by organization being addressed.
Olmstead Task Force Recommendations, 2004-2005, are housed in 5 boxes and are arranged by recommendation number. The Community Integration Implementation Team was charged with cost out and updates to the 201 recommendations in One Community, the Report of the Olmstead Task Force; indentifying and implementing recommendations that could be implemented administratively within each agency; indentifying recommendations that would require new resources within each agency's budget; prioritizing the timing with which those recommendations would be requested to be implemented; preparing budget proposals for the Governor's consideration; identifying recommendations that would require regulatory changes and overseeing the process for adoption of regulations; identifying all recommendations that would require action outside an agencies' authority and recommending to the Governor a process for implementation; seeking advice from the Community Integration Oversight Advisory Committee; and reporting annually to the Committee on the activities of the Team and status of the Olmstead decision with the Commonwealth. The Team divided the 201 recommendations in the Task Force Report into five categories for the purpose of costing them out - recommendations for responsible agencies; recommendations for assignment of a lead agency when needed; recommendations for multiple agencies; recommendations that appeared to be outside the authority or responsibility of agencies represented on the Team; and recommendations that had already been fully implemented by January 2004. Due to the volume of recommendations and the time frame involved, recommendations were divided into two cost out phases: Phase 1 (2004) and Phase II (2005). Recommendations fall into categories for Consumer Choice of and Access to Needed Services and Supports; Consumer and Family Involvement; Consumer Rights; Health and Safety; Educating Consumers, Family Members and Providers; Educating the Public; Employment; Housing; Research and Knowledge; Transportation; Workforce and Qualifications of Providers; and Olmstead Planning and Implementation. Most of the recommendation files include Olmstead Task Force Recommendation Cost Out Reports which identify lead agency name and contact, time frame, impact, assumptions and requirements of the recommendation. May also include correspondence, agendas, fiscal impact statements, legislation, presentations, and other reports.
Reports, 2004-2005, are housed in 1 box and are arranged chronologically. Includes Annual Reports of the Community Integration Implementation Team (First and Second) and the Community Integration Oversight Advisory Committee (First and Second), as well as drafts of these reports, and other status reports.