California law and regulation requires that regional centers display on their Web sites information about the dollar value of services they purchase for clients. These data (called "purchase of service" or "POS" data) must be reported separately by clients' ethnic/racial group, langauge and diagnosis.
the ToolBox
After many years as an administrator and staff trainer in profit, nonprofit and governmental human service organizations, Linda LaPointe now operates her own company.
The ToolBox, is a publishing, training and consulting firm featuring her staff training materials and programs.
The goal of the Web site is to provide tools for direct support professionals and their supervisors to create humane workplaces and human services. Visitors to the site can sign up for teleclasses, browse through a variety of free resources, download education tools and read the E-tools newsletter.