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I Get to Decide
Follow this Vault path to learn about your right to choose the place you want to live.
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Are you living in the best home for you? You have the right to ask yourself this question. And you get to decide the answer.
It’s your life and as you become an adult, you are the person who decides how you want to live life based on what you think is important. This is part of Minnesota’s Olmstead Plan, a plan that the state uses to make sure that Minnesotans with disabilities have choices about where they live.
The HB101 Vault’s I Get to Decide path is a set of interactive tools that helps you think about what’s important to you, set goals, and make a plan to achieve your goals. To use the I Get to Decide path, you need a free Vault account. Your free account lets you save all your information. You can even share things with others.
I Get to Decide is a great way to start thinking about housing. It has activities that help you:
- Understand your rights
- Think about what you want in housing
- Understand which people in your life can help you find and keep housing
- Make a Communication Profile that tells the people in your life the ways they can best support you.
Your Housing Team
As a young person, your parents or other people have supported you in many of your decisions. They can still support you as you think through this process and help you deal with issues that come up. Think of all the people who help you as your team: they help you solve different types of problems so that you can live in the type of place you choose.
It’s important for you to think about all of the people who could be a part of this housing team: they can be your family and friends. Or, they could be people who have helped you with your Individualized Education Program (IEP) over the years, or they could be people like case managers or social workers. If you live in certain types of housing there are even people who know a lot about helping people transition between settings.
The HB101 Vault’s Build a Housing Team activity can help you make a list of the people who help you with housing. Add people and their contact info. For some people, the activity helps you understand the ways these contacts can help with your housing.
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Build a Housing Team
Follow this Vault path to learn about your right to choose the place you want to live.
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HB101 also has a guide to People Who Help with Housing. It’s a list of people who might help you. It says who they help, what they do, and how to contact them.
Tell Your Team How They Can Help You
Remember that you are the leader of your team: the team’s goal is to support you as you decide what type of housing you want.
To make sure they do a good job of supporting you, the Vault’s Communication Profile activity lets you make a one-page profile saying:
- The language you prefer to use
- The ways you usually communicate
- How to communicate with you when you’re upset
- How people can help you calm down, and
- How people can contact you.
When you’re done, you can email your one-page profile or print it out and share it with people. This will help your team understand how they can better support you as you make decisions about your housing plan.