In-Home and Community Supports
Our Services
Service
Name |
Service
Description |
Behavioral Support |
This service is
available for individuals age 21 and older and includes comprehensive
assessment, the development of and revisions to a behavioral support plan
that includes strategies to support the individual based upon assessment, and
the provision of interventions and training to individuals, staff and
caregivers. There are two levels of service that reflect the differing levels
of provider qualifications and the needs of the individual. |
Chore – Permanent or |
Chore services consist of services needed to maintain the home in a clean, sanitary, and safe condition. Chore services consist of heavy household activities such as washing floors, windows, and walls; tacking down loose rugs and tiles; moving heavy items of furniture in order to provide safe access and egress; ice,
snow, and/or leaf removal; and yard maintenance. In the case of rental property, the responsibility of the landlord, pursuant to the lease agreement, will be examined prior to any authorization of service.
Maintenance in the form of upkeep and improvements to the participant’s home is excluded from federal financial participation. |
Chore – Temporary |
Chore services consist of services needed to maintain the home in a clean, sanitary, and safe condition. Chore services consist of heavy household activities such as washing floors, windows, and walls; tacking down loose rugs and tiles; moving heavy items of furniture in order to provide safe access and egress; ice,
snow, and/or leaf removal; and yard maintenance. In the case of rental property, the responsibility of the landlord, pursuant to the lease agreement, will be examined prior to any authorization of service.
Maintenance in the form of upkeep and improvements to the participant’s home is excluded from federal financial participation. |
Companion |
This service is
intended to assist an individual who is age 18 or older to participate more
meaningfully in-home and community life. It is provided to individuals living
in private homes for the purposes of providing supervision or assistance that
is designed to ensure the individual’s health, safety and welfare or to
perform activities of daily living for the individual. |
Consultative
Nutritional Service |
This service assists
unpaid caregivers and/or paid support staff in carrying out an individual’s
treatment/service plan with the goal of improving or sustaining the
individual’s health status and improve his or her independence and inclusion
in the community. The service may include assessment, plan development,
training and monitoring. |
In Home and Community Supports |
Services to help
people gain, maintain, and improve skills that allow them to live and
participate in their local community.
Services to help people gain, maintain, and improve skills that allow
them to live and participate in their local community. |
Respite, 15 Minutes |
These are services
that are provided to supervise and support individuals living in private
homes on a short-term basis for planned or emergency situations, giving the
person(s) normally providing care a period of relief that may be scheduled or
due to an emergency. There is a limit of 480 units per fiscal year in the
Consolidated waiver and 1440 units per fiscal year in the P/FDS and Community
Living waivers with a variance process to request additional units. |
Transportation -
Public Transportation |
Public transportation
costs to enable individuals to access services and resources specified in the
individual’s support plan. |
Transportation -
Transportation Mile |
Transportation by
providers, family members, surrogates who are the employer or managing
employer, or other qualified licensed drivers for using vehicles to transport
the individual to and from services specified in the individual’s support
plan. Mileage will be paid per trip. A trip is defined as from the point of
pick-up to the destination while the individual is in the car. |
Transportation -
Transportation Trip |
This service is
transportation provided to individuals, with costs determined on a per-trip basis.
Trip distances are defined by ODP through the use of zones. |
Support Medical
Environment |
This service may be
used to provide support in general hospital or nursing home settings where
there is a documented need and the County Program Administrator or Director
approves the support in a medical facility. |
Learn more about In-Home and Community Supports.