Host home without transportation services enable a person to retain or improve skills related to: health; activities of daily living; money management; community mobility; recreation; cooking; shopping; use of community resources; community safety; and to develop other adaptive skills needed to live in the community, based upon what is important to and for the person as documented in his or her Individual Support Plan (ISP) and reflected in his or her Person-Centered Thinking and Discovery tools.
What kind of Supports are provided?
Supports provided shall be related to the person’s ISP goals and habilitative in nature, aimed at teaching the person to increase his or her skills and self-reliance. These categories or areas of support shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Room and board (not included in the ID/DD Waiver reimbursement rate);
- Assistance with eating and food preparation, including learning about healthy eating choices;
- Assistance with personal hygiene;
- Assistance with dressing;
- Assistance with monitoring the person’s health and physical condition;
- Assistance with the administration of medication;
- Assistance with communication between the person and other health care providers;
- Assistance with interpersonal and social skills;
- Assistance with household chores;
- Assistance with mobility;
- Assistance with motor and perceptual skills;
- Assistance with problem-solving and decision-making;
- Maintenance of medical records;
- Maintenance of financial records;
- Assistance with attending health care appointments, by the coordination of transportation to and from the person’s appointments;
- Assistance with planning and attending events;
- Habilitative support in activities of daily living and/or therapeutic goals and objectives as described in the ISP and Plan of Care;
- Assistance with enhancing the person’s opportunities for engagement in community life, including but not limited to social, recreational, and religious activities utilizing community resources;
- Assistance with ensuring that the person’s adaptive equipment is appropriate and functioning;
- Assistance with finding opportunities for employment in the community in a competitive and integrated setting;
- Other supports that are identified as important to or for the person as identified in his or her ISP.