We Provide a Range of Supportive Programs and Services

Explanation of Intellectual Disabilities/Autism Services

  1. Supports Coordination – A Supports Coordinator assists with locating and coordinating supports and services which are then outlined in the Individual Support Plan (ISP). The Supports Coordinator also provides ongoing monitoring of services when they are delivered, as well as monitoring the general health and welfare of the person using the services.

  2. Family Driven Resources – These are limited resources such as respite camp, vehicle and/or home adaptations, and support needed to participate in integrated recreation. These may be paid directly to the vendor or as a reimbursement to the family.

  3. Companion – Provides for supervision and basic care as needed for individuals who are over the age of 18.

  4. Respite – Overnight and/or interim respite may be available to provide periodic relief to the caregiver. This is not intended to be a regularly scheduled event and does have annual service limits.

  5. Supported Employment – Provides for all aspects of job finding as well as job training and follow-up once a person has exhausted funding through the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.

  6. Community Participation Supports – Facility and Community based program that provides supervision, training, and support in general of self-care, communication, community participation and socialization.

  7. In-Home and Community Supports – A face-to-face mentoring and support service. In-Home and Community Supports assists participants in acquiring, maintaining, and improving self-help, domestic, socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully in home and community-based settings.

  8. Residential Supports – Provider operated residential homes that protect the health and welfare of the residents while assisting them in acquiring, retaining, and improving self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully in home and community-based settings. This service includes licensed, unlicensed, and Life Sharing options.

  9. Behavior Support – This service offers functional assessment and development of strategies to support the participant. Family and staff/caregiver training is also provided.

  10. Home Accessibility/Adaptation – Modifications to the private home of the participant which are necessary to ensure his/her health, security, and accessibility, or which enable the participant to function with greater independence in the home.

  11. Vehicle Adaptations – These are modifications to the individual or family vehicle that is used for the individual’s primary means of transportation.

  12. Assistive Technology – This technology includes any item, piece of equipment, or product system used to increase, maintain, or improve a participant’s functioning. Assistive technology devices must be recommended by an independent evaluation of the participant’s assistive technology needs.

  13. Therapy Services – These include occupational, speech, physical, vision, and mobility therapy and they must be medically necessary to assist participants in the acquisition, retention, or improvement of skills necessary for the participant to live and work in the community. ***

  14. Nursing Services – Diagnosing and treating human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case finding, health teaching, health counseling, providing care supportive to or restorative of, life and well-being. Medical regimens are executed as prescribed. ***

    ***Must be prescribed as medically necessary and requires an insurance denial.***