Services provided to a person who cannot live in his/her home without such services or who needs outside support to remain in his/her home. Theses services are provided in the person’s residence and in the community, and should be directed toward increasing and maintaining the person’s physical, intellectual, emotional and social functioning.

This umbrella of services and goods provide a person support to be more independent at home and in the community. If you use this service you must have a habilitative service in place.

Short-term care services provided due to the absence or need for relief of the family member(s) or primary caregiver normally providing the care. This service becomes habilitative when it allows the primary caregiver to have time to provide intensive training and supports to an individual in their care.

Customary and reasonable amount per week: limited to 30 consecutive days per respite stay in accordance with the plan of care.

This service allows a person to gain access to community services, resources and activities. Some examples: Metro Mobility, Bus card, mileage reimbursement, MNET.
Customary & Reasonable: Up to $100 per month for Bus cards and tickets

When and individual requires daily staff intervention due to severe behavior problems, medical conditions, physical deficits and/or lack of adequate survival skills that result in the family’s inability to maintain him/her in the home they could be supported by this services. Some examples: Adult foster care, family foster care, supported apartment or own apartment with daily support.
Can be daily rate or 15 minute rate. Corporate gets daily rate, non-corporate get 15 minute rate. 350-365 days based on RMS calculations

A waiver service that helps people plan for, find and move to homes of their own that are not owned, leased or controlled by disability services providers. It is a pay-for-performance, person-centered service that pays for staff assistance based on the results achieved. A provider is reimbursed for actual time spent helping a person get housing. You would use this service when homeless, going from an institution to less supportive setting and when moving from a group home to a less supportive setting. This is a 3 tiered service. PLAN-FIND-MOVE. Person can access this service when moving to their own home from any of the following settings:
• Family or corporate adult foster care homes
• Hospitals
• Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD)
• Intensive rehabilitation treatment and rule 36 settings
• Intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities (ICF/DD)
• Nursing facilities
• Registered housing with services establishments
• Unlicensed settings.

Services ranging from light household cleaning to household cleaning with incidental assistance with home management and/or activities of daily living. This service becomes habilitative when it allows the primary caregiver to have time to provide intensive training and supports to an individual in their care. Otherwise known as a service we can use to open a person to a waiver quickly before transferring.
Customary and reasonable amount per week: 2-5 hours per week. Depends on size of home.

Services provided to a person and his/her in the family’s home and/or in the community to enable the person to remain in or return to the home. This includes training of the person and family members to increase their capabilities to care for and maintain the person in the home.

Customary and reasonable amount per week: Children 8-10 hours per week. Adults: 8 hours per day (if individual also has a day program, employment, or school

Non-medical care, supervision and assistance provided in the home of the person or in the community to achieve increased independence, productivity and inclusion in the community.

Customary and reasonable amount per week: 40 hours per week. 4-6 hours per day. For a higher needs individual 7-9 hours per day.