Personal Assistance Services Guide

by The Utah Assistive Technology Program
Center for Persons with Disabilities

We have recently published a 89 page Personal Assistance Services Guide. This guide was developed to help people with disabilities successfully find, fund, train, and manage personal assistance services. This extensive, illustrated guide takes the reader through all the steps of defining needs, creating checklists, recruiting, advertising, interviewing, negotiating, setting up contracts, paying taxes, training, supervising, taking corrective action, locating potential funding sources, and accessing assistive technology for daily living.

There are examples of checklists, contracts and other forms which can be photocopied. The goal of this guide is to enhance consumer control and knowledge of personal assistance services, resulting in increased independence and a higher quality of life. The price of this guide is $14.95, including shipping and handling. To order the Personal Assistance Services Guide, contact:

Hazel Sparks, Outreach
Center for Persons with Disabilities
6845 Old Main Hill
Logan, Utah 84322-6845
USA
Voice: (435) 797-1991 TDD: (435) 797-1981
Fax: (435) 797-2044
E-mail: hazel@cpd2.usu.edu