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1. Integrated Community Supports (ICS)

Integrated Community supports cover community living services in four categories:

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• Community participation
• Health, safety and wellness
• Household management
• Adaptive skills.

Community Participation

This category may include:

 

  • Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)

  • Community resource use and access

  • Community safety and awareness

  • Informal support system and network development

  • Interpersonal communications skills

  • Leisure, recreation and socialization planning

  • Skill-building to meet transportation needs.

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Health, Safety and Wellness

This category may include:

 

  • Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments

  • Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-cares

  • Health services support

  • Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors. (e.g., whole health action management)

  • Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety and wellness goals.

Household Management

This category may include:

 

  • ​Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance

  • Household safety knowledge and skills

  • Tenancy support and advocacy

  • Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with:

  • Budgeting and assistance to manage money

  • Cooking, meal-planning and nutrition

  • Healthy lifestyle skills and practices

  • Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities (Note: The person is responsible for the cost of the maintenance replacement items or products)

  • Personal-needs purchasing.

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Adaptive Skills

This category may include:

 

  • Crisis prevention skills

  • Implementation of positive support strategies

  • Problem-solving

  • Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills

  • Support strategies for self-sufficiency

  • Support and training to increase positive behavior, resulting in a reduction or elimination of challenging behavior.

2. Employment Services

Employment Exploration Services:

Services that help a person gain a better understanding of competitive, integrated employment opportunities in his/her community. Exploration activities and experiences strengthen a person’s knowledge, interests and preferences so he/she can make informed decisions about competitive employment.

Employment Development Services:

Individualized services designed to help a person achieve competitive, integrated employment, become self-employed or establish a microenterprise business in his/her community.

Employment Support Services:

Individualized services and supports that help people to maintain community employment in an individual or group arrangement.

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3. 24-Hour Emergency Assistance

Non-equipment

This service covers the following non-equipment services:

  • Immediate response for assistance at the person’s home.

  • On-call counseling and problem solving.

 

Equipment

This service covers the following equipment services:

  • Personal emergency response system (PERS) installation and testing.

  • PERS device and monitoring.

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We are accepting Referrals

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