Demo/Loan Programs Essentials in Program Design

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Demo/Loan ProgramsEssentials in Program Design

• Dr. Diane Cordry Golden
• Missouri Assistive Technology
• dcgolden_at_swbell.net

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• If you come to a fork in the road - take it.
  
• ---- Yogi Berra

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Three Primary Considerations

• Programmatic Scope
• equipment inventory -- staff expertise
• Administrative Structure
• centralized and decentralized options
• Costs
• equipment versus operational costs

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Program Scope

• Inventory Expertise
• Depth/Breadth Level
• Comprehensive Extensive
• Good Adequate
• Limited Basic

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Administrative Structure

• Centralized
• leverage state dollars
• savings (volume buy, vendor connections)
• easier to get high level expertise
• reduce duplicative equipment/services
• direct oversight/control (consistent data)
• Decentralized
• leverage local dollars, utilize existing
  equipment pools
• operational savings (less shipping, donated
  space
• increased consumer connection (less distance)
• less oversight/control (data) less
  stability/consistency

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Costs

• Equipment
• Can be periodic
• Can be adjusted with understanding of impact on
  program scope
• Easier to leverage external funding

• Operational
• Annual in nature
• Once program model implemented, difficult to
  adjust
• Difficult to leverage external funding

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Critical Things to Do

• 1. Intimately know/understand existing resources
• Statewide, local, internal
• Equipment pools
• Expertise available
• Administrative relationships
• 2. Identify supportable administrative structure
• In-house resources external resources
• Leverage when possible (but have plan B for loss)
• Dont be afraid to mix central/decentralized
• 3. Identify supportable program scope
• Make sure equipment level expertise level
• Shoot for incremental building
• Build relationships for external funding

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• If you arent in over your head,
• how do you know how tall you are?
• ---- T.S. Elliot