Individualized
Home Supports

Our trained staff will ensure to provide support and/ or training in the community living services categories for people who live in their own home, their family’s home or in the community, and either in person or remotely. There are three types of individualized home supports.

  1. Individualized home supports without Training: this service is provided to clients when they need support, assistance and supervision in at least one of the following community living services categories.
  2. Individualized home support with family training. This service is designed to provide training to the person and their family member to increases their capabilities to care for and maintain the person’s ability to live in the home:
  3. Individualized home supports with training. This service option is provided to adults when they need support and training in at least one of the community living service categories:

Community Living Services:

  • 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.

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
    (Note: Cannot duplicate use of eligible MA state plan home care services; see CBSM – Home care overview)
  • Health services support, as defined in  Stat. §245D.05
  • 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:

  1. Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance
  2. Household safety knowledge and skills
  3. Tenancy support and advocacy
  4. 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.

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 reduction or elimination of challenging behavior.
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