California Self-Directed Services

Instructors provide individual and group training in a variety of target areas including money management, banking, meal planning, and access to public services like healthcare, social security, and housing, etc.

A home of your own! Direct Support Professionals provide individually tailored training, habilitation, and personal support services in the home or community anytime, 24-hours per day, 365 days per year. Areas of training and support can include access to healthcare, in-home support services (IHSS), public transportation, healthy lifestyle planning, bill paying, and money management, among other things.

Mediation is about empowerment. Mediation provides a way for individuals to solve their own problems rather than turning to others to make decisions for them. For example, in litigation a judge decides. Mediated agreements are reached in a non-adversarial way; faster, cheaper, and are more relational than litigating. Richard Sochel, J.D., M.A., is a certified mediator under the Dispute Resolution Protection Act (DRPA) rules for California.