Start here
New to all this? These three pages cover the most ground.
- Homepage The 30-second pitch and a way in.
- The Parent Guide 8 short steps to a personalized roadmap. ~5 minutes.
- About Why this site exists and who built it.
Everything on the site
The whole map, on one page
Organized by what you came to do. If you're not sure where to begin, the parent guide is the best starting point — five minutes, no account needed.
Plan a life
Goals first. Funding second. The map between them.
- Goals library 10 goal categories — the lives families actually want.
- Funding library SLS, ILS, IHSS, SDP, RDI, SSI, Medi-Cal, DOR — explained.
- The Journey From diagnosis to true independence, end to end.
- Resources Official sources every San Diego family should bookmark.
Your Compass (signed-in)
What you'll see once you've created a free account.
- Sign in Email and password, or magic link.
- Dashboard Your home base after sign-in.
- Your roadmap The goals you picked, with funding attached.
- Settings Language, accessibility, notification preferences.
- Sign out
For professionals
If you work in the system, not through it.
- For SLS providers Be findable as families search by goal.
- For case managers Service Coordinators and Independent Facilitators.
Events
- 2026 Self-Determination Conference October 20–21, 2026. We'll be there.
About & legal
- About The story behind the site.
- Privacy What we collect, what we never will.
- Accessibility WCAG 2.2 AA, working toward AAA.
- HIPAA & Security Built HIPAA-ready from day one.
- Sitemap This page.
For machines: the crawler-readable XML sitemap lives at /sitemap.xml. Robots policy at /robots.txt. A markdown mirror of the public site for language models lives at /llms.txt (and the long form at /llms-full.txt).