New Hampshire's Wait List for Developmental Services
An individual found eligible to receive services is assigned a One Sky Service Coordinator to assist in identifying needs and the resources available to meet these needs. When funding does not exist to provide the services needed, the Service Coordinator will submit the person's name to be placed on New Hampshire's Wait List.
The state's Wait List is known as "a list of individuals who need and are ready to receive services but who do not have funding for services needed." The list only includes the names of individuals who need services currently, not in the future. Individuals who currently have services but require a different service, or their status has changed, may also be placed on the Wait List.
When an individual expects to need funding for services in the future, the individual's name will be placed on the Projected Service Needs List (PSNL). The PSNL helps the NH Bureau of Developmental Services (BDS) and the State Legislature to estimate the future funding needs of the service system. One Sky maintains the PSNL for five fiscal years: one for the current fiscal year and one for each of the next four fiscal years. Students who will need services when they complete a school program at the age of 21 should be placed on the PSNL when they turn 16 years old.
When funding for services is determined in the state budget, One Sky submits a Wait List funding allocation to the Bureau of Developmental Services. Funding allocations are determined by the BDS and are dependent on the funds approved in the biennial state budget. We are responsible to prioritize funding allocations based on the following factors:
- Advanced Age of the family caregiver;
- Advanced age of the individual;
- Declining health of the family caregiver;
- Declining health of the individual;
- Sole caregiver with no other supports at home;
- High work demands of the family caregiver;
- Family caregiver responsible for others in the family needing care;
- Individual with no day services while living with a family caregiver;
- Individual's low safety awareness;
- Individual's behavioral challenges;
- Individual's involvement in the legal system;
- Individual's living in or at risk of going to an institutional setting;
- Significant regression in individual's overall skills such that their level of independence is diminished;
- Length of time on the wait list as compared to others.