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SDP

Tools

Nothing else in California does this arithmetic for you. Both tools run entirely in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.

True cost of a worker

Enter a wage and hours and see the real monthly draw on an individual budget once employer burden is added. Or go the other way: enter a budget and see how many hours of care it buys.

Spending plan builder

Line items with the official service codes, part-year services, totals by code and category, and a printable plan document. Put in what you already know the price of, and it turns the budget left over into caregiver hours or a vendor's hours, sessions and days — adding employer burden only where there are employees to carry it, so it works for Bill Payer plans too.

Appeal deadline calculator

Got a Notice of Action? Enter the date you received it and see the deadline to keep your services in place, the last day to appeal, and the timeline after you file.

Who can be paid?

Parent, spouse, relative, conservator: answer four questions and see what DDS says about whether that person can be paid to provide services.

Regional center finder

Pick your county and get your regional center, its phone number and its website. Los Angeles County's seven centers explained.

Everything about Self-Determination, in one place.

CalSDP is published by Sentinel Four, a California Financial Management Services provider (DDS vendor PF5575). We publish this resource for anyone in the Self-Determination Program, including people who will never be our clients.

Our goal is that you decide knowing everything you should — and if we are not the right fit for you, we will say so.

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