Residential Services

Companion Services

This service provides non-medical assistance and supervision to support a person’s goals, desires, and needs as identified in the person’s Individual Support Plan (ISP) and reflected in his or her Person-Centered Thinking (PCT) and Discovery tools. Goals may be related to the person’s safety, promotion of independence, community integration, and/or retirement. Companion services may be provided in a person’s home or in the community.

Respite Services

This service provides relief to the family or primary caregiver to meet planned or emergency situations. It will give the caregiver a period of relief for scheduled time away from the individual, including vacations. It may also be used in cases of emergencies. This service is necessary to prevent individuals from being institutionalized or sent to an out-of-District program. Services will be provided to those individuals who live in their own home, or their family home. Respite care will also ensure that individuals have access to community activities as delineated in the individual’s ISP/Plan of Care. The services are available on an hourly or daily basis.

Supported Living Services

This service is provided in a home serving one to three persons. It is a blended service that covers habilitation, personal care, nursing, and other residential supports. This service ensures full-time staffing support up to twenty-four (24) hours, seven (7) days per week. The service is designed in a way that allows waiver participants to become fully integrated members of their community.

In-Home Supports

This service is provided to individuals in order to assist them with residing successfully in homes owned or leased by the family or individual. Services may be provided in the home or community, with the place of residence as the primary setting. The services focus on helping the person to achieve one or more goals outlined in their approved plan of care, utilizing teaching and support strategies. Specified goals are related to acquiring, retaining, and improving independence, autonomy, and adaptive skills.

 

Host Home Services

This service enables people to live in the community in a family-type setting that will support them to achieve their goals, participate in community life and activities, maintain their health, and retain or improve skills that are important to them, which may include activities of daily living, money management, travel, recreation, cooking, shopping, use of community resources, community safety, and other adaptive skills they identify that are needed to live in the community. In this setting, the residence is owned or leased by the homeowner or principal care provider who provides the services to the person(s) enrolled in the ID/DD Waiver program.