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Case Management - provides supports to assist the person and the person's support network to identify, select, obtain, coordinate, and use both paid services and natural supports as may be available to enhance the person's independence, integration, and productivity consistent with the person's capabilities and preferences as outlined in the individual's person-centered support plan.

Case Management includes the following:
1. Assessment
2. Support Planning
3. Support Coordination
4. Advocacy
5. Assisting Transition and Portability

Day Service is regularly occuring activities that provide a sense of participation, accomplishment, personal reward, personal contribution, or remuneration and thereby serve as vehicles to maintain or increase adaptive capabilities, independence, or integration and participation in the community. Services will cover a wide variety of possiblities based on the person's identified interests and needs. These can include socialization activities, recreation, community inclusion, environmental awareness/stimulation, training in following directions, adapting to work routines, carrying out assigned duties, acquiring appropriate situational attitudes and habits, adjusting to the productive and social demands of the workplace, mobility training, use of public facilities and job related facilities, and use of transportation opportunities.

Personal and Social Skills - provides day service activities which include opportunities for participation in the community and learning activities such as adult education classes.

Supported Employment - provides long term assistance in finding and maintaining employment.

Job Placement - provides time limited assistance in becoming knowledgeable in job seeking skills, job duties, employment practices, and full integration into a work force.

Work Services - provides opportunities to learn marketable job skills while receiving commensurate wage for part time or full time employment.

Residential Service is provided to individuals who live in a residential setting and do not live with their birth or adoptive parents. This service provides assistance, acquisition, retention and/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. Residential Service for adults are provided for consumers 18 years of age or older. Providers are willing to expand services into other counties based on need and staff availability.

Supported Residential Setting - provides a variety of service options such as budgetary assistance, laundry, along with community supports to meet each individual's needs and desires. Individuals typically live on their own or with a roommate.

Supervised Group Living - provides 24 hour staff availability on site to provide assistance with daily living skills and behavioral support.

Intermediate Care Facility (ICF/MR) - provides continuous active treatment and 24 hour supervision.

Family/Individual Supports are available to consumers who live in the family home. This service provides necessary supports for consumers to meet their daily living needs and/or to insure continuation of stay in family homes. This service provides for paid staff to perform in home assistance any hour of the day or night, in the absence or presence of unpaid care givers as determined to meet the consumer's needs. Providers are willing to expand services into other counties based on need and staff availability.

Supportive Home Care - Personal Assistant - provides direct assistance in daily living and personal adjustment, attendant care, assistance with medications that are ordinarily self-administered and accessing medical care, supervision, reporting changes in the consumer's condition and needs, extension of therapy services, ambulation and exercize, household services essential to health care at home or performed in conjunction with assistance in daily living (e.g. shopping, meal preparation, cleanup after meals, bathing, using appliances, dressing, feeding, bed making, laundry and cleaning the bathroom and kitchen) and household maintenance related to the consumer.

Respite Care - designed to provide relief for the individual's family member who serves as an unpaid primary care giver. Respite is necessary for families who provide constant care for individuals so family members are able to receive periods of relief for vacations, holidays and scheduled periods of time off.

Children's Services:

Early Childhood Intervention Services - provides home based or center based services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech/language, and family service coordination to children ages birth through two who have a diagnosed disability or are demonstrating developmental delays.

Children's Residential Host Family (Foster Care) - provides a home for children ages 5-21 who are at risk of placement in an institutional or other congregate residential setting when they cannot, for whatever reason, remain in the home of their natural families. The hose family becomes the primary care giver and provides all child rearing.