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:
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Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)
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Community resource use and access
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Community safety and awareness
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Informal support system and network development
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Interpersonal communications skills
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Leisure, recreation and socialization planning
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Skill-building to meet transportation needs.
Health, Safety and Wellness
This category may include:
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Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments
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Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-cares
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Health services support
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Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors. (e.g., whole health action management)
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Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety and wellness goals.
Household Management
This category may include:
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​Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance
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Household safety knowledge and skills
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Tenancy support and advocacy
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Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with:
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Budgeting and assistance to manage money
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Cooking, meal-planning and nutrition
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Healthy lifestyle skills and practices
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Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities (Note: The person is responsible for the cost of the maintenance replacement items or products)
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Personal-needs purchasing.
Adaptive Skills
This category may include:
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Crisis prevention skills
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Implementation of positive support strategies
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Problem-solving
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Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills
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Support strategies for self-sufficiency
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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.
3. 24-Hour Emergency Assistance
Non-equipment
This service covers the following non-equipment services:
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Immediate response for assistance at the person’s home.
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On-call counseling and problem solving.
Equipment
This service covers the following equipment services:
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Personal emergency response system (PERS) installation and testing.
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PERS device and monitoring.