Through our Community Support services, we offer a range of personalized supports for kids and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and deliver them wherever they are needed—at home, at work and in the community. Our goal is to offer people of all abilities access to the supports they need to be successful. No matter where a person lives—with family or friends or in a home or apartment of their own—we help empower them to live as independently as possible each day.
Relief Support (B3 Respite & Innovations)
The primary caregiver(s) is the person principally responsible for your care and supervision and must maintain his/her primary residence at your address. This service enables them to take part in planned or emergency events and to have planned relief time off. Respite may include services in your home, in the homes of direct support professionals or in facilities. Respite also may be provided in the community. Respite Services can include overnight, weekend and emergency care. Your Respite services cannot provide care for your siblings or any other family member while providing respite services for you.
This is a service to help the family or guardian(s) of children (ages 3-21) with mental health, substance use disorder, or intellectual/developmental disabilities, and adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. This service is funded through Medicaid.
Community Networking
Community Networking Services are not provided in your home, anyone else’s home, residential programs or day programs. Some of the things that Community Networking Services can help you do are listed below.
- Take part in classes
- Do volunteer work
- Join a group
- Learn to use public transportation
- Take classes on self-determination and take part in a self-advocacy group
- If you are a child, provide staffing support for you to go to an after-school program that is designed for children who do not have disabilities
- Pay for you to attend a class or conference (excluding hotel, meals, transportation and day care fees) up to $1,000 per year
- Pay for transportation to a community activity that is covered under this definition when you do not need staff to support you
This is a service to help children or adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. This service is funded through Medicaid.
Community Transition (b)(3)
Community Transition funds provide one-time, set-up costs for adults to live in homes of their own. These funds can help you if you are moving from a Developmental Center (institution); community ICF/IID Group Home; nursing facility; psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF) for children or other licensed living arrangement (such as a group home, foster home or alternative family living home) to a living arrangement where you are directly responsible for your own living expenses. Community Transition Services can pay for security deposits, essential furnishings, window coverings, food preparation items, sheets, towels and deposits for certain utilities. The service is also available to individuals with mental illness who have been referred to live in an adult care home. To be eligible for the service, the individual must be moving to a private home or apartment.
Individual Support (b)(3)
This service helps adults learn to live more independently. It is typically for adults who are moving out of their families’ homes or licensed facilities. The service provides guidance and help with everyday activities. Examples are help with activities noted below.
- Shopping for groceries
- Washing clothes
- House cleaning
- Cooking
- Managing money
- Managing medication
Community Living and Support (CLS)
Community Living and Support includes:
- Training you to develop and maintain personal relationships;
- Skill building to help you learn community living skills, such as shopping, recreation, personal banking and other community activities;
- Training to help you learn therapeutic exercises, supervision of self-administration of medication and other services that are essential to your health care at home; and
- Transporting you to activities where you are receiving Community Living and Support.
This is a service to help children or adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. This service is funded through Medicaid.
In-Home skill Building (b)(3)
In-Home Skill Building is a short-term service for individuals with significant habilitation and behavioral support needs. The individual’s family members or caregivers are expected to take part in the skill building sessions. In-Home Skill Building is provided in the person’s private home or the community. The service is not available to individuals living in facilities. In-Home Skill Building assists with the activities noted below.
- Learning to interact with others and build personal relationships
- Skill building in shopping, recreation and other community living activities
- Training in health care at home, such as taking medicines or using special equipment
- Transportation to support skill building activities
Supported Employment
- Learning job skills
- Applying and interviewing for a job
- Keeping a job
- Opening a small business
- Limited transportation
- Getting medical services needed while at work