Ohio Self Empowered Life Funding (SELF) Handbook

~~“A waiver is a Medicaid program that can pay for the services a person with
developmental disabilities needs. A waiver is one way to pay for services. Services
can be things like help cooking food or doing laundry, help getting around, or help
finding a job.
SELF is short for Self-Empowered Life Funding and is Ohio’s first participant-directed
waiver. Participant-direction means that the person getting services makes decisions 
about their waiver services and helps manage them”