Choosing direction, providers, rates, or a start
Compare DDS service-delivery models
Compare provider-managed and self-directed options within the person’s approved DDS supports and budget.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
DDS self-directionBefore you start
- Approved services and budget, goals, schedule, employer responsibilities, worker recruitment and supervision capacity, fiscal supports, backup coverage, safeguards, and candidate providers or workers.
Who to contact
Use the official destination above, the assigned DDS region or case manager, the DSS Autism Division contact, or the exact contact on the controlling notice. Confirm which agency and program owns the step.
Open DDS regional contacts · Open DSS Autism Waiver contacts
Step by step
- Ask the case manager which delivery options are available for each approved support.
- Compare control, administration, worker recruitment, backup coverage, safeguards, budget effects, and transition requirements.
- Record the chosen model and every remaining approval, fiscal, provider, worker, and start dependency.
Expected next
A documented choice, approved budget or plan update, fiscal-management step, provider or worker action, or next event.
Save this proof
Comparison, approved plan and budget, responsibilities, candidates, approvals, backup plan, and start dependencies.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Ask the case manager or DDS region which rule, approval, fiscal, provider, worker, or staffing step remains open.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Compare DDS service-delivery models checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Program lane and owner
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Confirmation or notice
- Current status
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Access to DDS supports, DDS self-direction, DDS qualified-provider information
Official resources
Limits
Self-direction information does not establish an approved service, budget, worker qualification, provider acceptance, backup coverage, or start.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.