Your budget. Your plan. Your bttr.
The Self Determination Program gives the participant an individual budget instead of a menu of regional center services. The participant decides what support they need, who provides it, and when. An Independent Facilitator helps build the plan, a Financial Management Service (FMS) pays providers, and the regional center certifies the budget.
bttr. serves SDP participants at every regional center in California. Every service in a spending plan sits under an SDP service code, and bttr. works under three: 310, 320, and 331. We are paid through the FMS and bill only what is approved.
One agency. One team. Every service in sync.
Many SDP plans combine separate providers that never talk to each other. With bttr., one or many services come from one agency, with one plan.
One point of contact
One contact for the participant, family, Independent Facilitator, service coordinator, and FMS.
Simpler coordination
One agency handles documentation, rate agreements, and billing with the FMS, with regular session notes for the team.
One shared plan
Services share one plan and one set of goals, so every support moves in the same direction.
Every service has a code.
The spending plan divides the certified budget, and every service sits under an SDP service code. These are the three codes bttr. works under.
Eight services. One team.
In Home Respite
Time at home with a trusted support professional for the participant, and a planned break for the people who provide support every day.
Behavioral Respite
Respite with support professionals prepared to follow the strategies the participant's team already uses. Predictable transitions, sensory aware. Not therapy, ABA, or clinical treatment.
Independent Living Skills
Everyday skills learned on real tasks: meals, money, transportation, appointments, and routines, at home and in the community.
Supported Living Services
Steady support in the participant's own home, for the life they already live there. Consistent support, week after week.
Personal Attendant Services
Hands on support with daily routines for adults who live at home with their family.
Tailored Day Services
A weekday schedule built around the participant's interests and goals, out in the community. A flexible alternative to a traditional day program.
Social + Recreational Support
Four hours in the community each week with a support professional, doing activities the participant chooses: outings, events, classes, and time with friends. Designed as a once weekly option.
Adaptive Fitness Coaching
One to one fitness support with a certified fitness trainer, tailored to the participant's interests, abilities, goals, and pace, at a gym, pool, park, or fitness class. Fitness instruction, not physical therapy or medical treatment.
Same support. New address.
In the traditional model, the regional center arranges services. In Self Determination, the participant chooses them. Here is where familiar services now live.
Home sessions of Adaptive Fitness Coaching are identified separately in the plan and confirmed with the planning team and FMS under the applicable code. The Independent Facilitator and regional center confirm the final code for each service.
Let's build support around your life.
The best way to begin is by email. We will schedule a free consultation at a convenient time.
Email us
Send a short note to request a free consultation.
Free consultation
We listen, answer questions, and review the services and codes that may fit.
Share your decision
With a high volume of referrals, we kindly ask you to let us know if you would like to begin with bttr., so we can reserve support for the participant.
Our process is person centered. From the first email, we are part of the participant's support team. Every day counts.