residential supports Residential Supports is a service that provides the habilitation and personal care needs of individuals living in licensed residential settings or unlicensed alternative family living homes. Residential Supports provide assistance with acquisition, retention, or improvement in skills related to activities of daily living, such as personal grooming and cleanliness, bed making and household chores, eating and the preparation of food, and the social and adaptive skills necessary to enable the individual to reside in a non-institutional setting. home and Community supports Home and Community Supports is a service intended to meet the habilitation and support needs of individuals living in their own home or their family’s home. Home and community supports services provide instruction and assistance to enable the individual to acquire and maintain skills that will allow him/her to function with greater independence in the community. Home and community supports provides habilitation, training and instruction coupled with elements of support, supervision and engaging participation to reflect the natural flow of training, practice of skills, and other activities as they occur during the course of the person’s day. Crisis Services Crisis services is a service that provides one additional staff support person for supervision for the CAP-MR/DD waiver recipient, as needed during an acute crisis situation so that the recipient can continue to participate in his/her daily routine and/or residential setting without interruption. It is appropriate to provide such support during periods of time in which the person is presenting episodes of unmanageable and/or inappropriate behaviors that require specialized staff intervention. personal care Personal Care services include support, supervision and engaging participation with eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene and other activities of daily living. Support and engaging consumer participation is non-habilitative and describes the flexibility of activities that may encourage the person to maintain skills gained during active treatment and/or habilitation while also providing supervision for independent activities of the consumer. respite Respite care is a service that provides periodic relief for the family or primary caregiver. In order to be considered the primary care giver, a person must be principally responsible for the care and supervision of the individual, and must maintain their primary residence at the same address as the covered individual. This service may be provided in the individual’s home or in an out-of-home setting.
supported employment Supported employment services consist of paid employment for persons for whom competitive employment at or above the minimum wage is unlikely, and who, because of their disabilities, need intensive ongoing support to perform in a work setting. This does not prohibit an individual in any way from being paid at or above minimum wage. Supported employment is conducted in a variety of settings; particularly work sites in which persons without disabilities are employed. Supported employment includes activities needed to sustain paid work by individuals receiving waiver services, including supervision and training. developmental therapY Developmental Therapy is a developmental disabilities service that includes individually designed instruction, training or functional developmental intervention activities based on assessment of, and unique strengths and needs of the child or adult individual. It is designed to support the individual in acquisition of skills that the individual has not gained during the developmental stages of life, and is not likely to develop without additional training and supports.
