Veteran's Directed Care (VDC) offers a new Veteran-directed approach to home and community-based services. VDC is designed to provide you with more choice and control in directing your services and supports. In the VDC Program, Veteran-directed means you decide what services, supports, and goods you need, when they are provided, who provides them, where they are received, and how they're provided.
Veteran-directed means you have more:
- Choice
- Control
- Flexibility
- Freedom
With Veteran-directed, you:
- Are in control of your life and how you live it
- Can get support with what you need in the way you need it
- Make choices about your services and supports
- Hire the people you want to provide your services and supports
Veteran-directed also means:
- Money gets approved for you to use to hire workers and buy supports and goods
- You work with the Direction Home Care Manager to create a spending plan for that money
- You are responsible for following the VDC rules
My Responsibilities
As a VDC participant, some of your responsibilities will be to:
- Assist with establishing your VDC eligibility through the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC
- Develop a Spending Plan
- Follow your Spending Plan
- Let someone know if you need help
- Work with your Direction Home Care Manager
- Work with your Financial Management Services (FMS) provider - Acumen
- Arrange to get the services, supports and goods you need and pay for them according to your spending plan
- Hire and manage the people who will provide services and supports, which may include replacing them if they are not working out for you.
- Keep records
- Follow the VDC guidelines and be accountable for the use of VDC funds
Does this sound like a fit for you? Whatever you need, the best way to get started is to call the ADRC at 877.770.5558.