Choosing delivery, providers, payment, or a start
Compare provider-managed and self-directed services
Compare contracted-provider delivery with self-direction only when waiver, setting, and service rules permit.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
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Compare Oklahoma Self-Directed ServicesBefore you start
- Waiver enrollment, authorized service and amount, living setting, ability to recruit and supervise workers, representative support, employer and payroll duties, fiscal-management requirements, backup plan, and desired schedule.
Who to contact
Use the official Liberty intake, DDS, case manager, SoonerCare, provider, hearing, grievance, crisis, or protective-report route that owns this step.
Step by step
- Ask which authorized services can be self-directed.
- Compare provider-managed delivery with recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, fiscal, EVV, documentation, and backup responsibilities.
- Document the choice, onboarding, worker or provider search, and readiness dependencies.
Expected next
A documented choice, SDS or provider contact, Acumen or employer onboarding, worker search, authorization update, or readiness plan.
Save this proof
Plan, authorization, options discussed, decision, employer and fiscal records, backup plan, and next event.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Contact DDS.SDS@okdhs.org for self-direction or the case manager and provider directory for agency delivery.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Compare provider-managed and self-directed services checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Compare Oklahoma Self-Directed Services, Find current Oklahoma DDS provider agencies, Use the Oklahoma DDS provider and contact directory
Official resources
Limits
Self-direction is limited to IHSW-Adult, IHSW-Child, and Community Waiver members in non-residential settings. It does not guarantee a worker, authorization, payroll readiness, backup, schedule, 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.