Services

The DSNWK CDDO service area covers the 18 northwest Kansas counties. The CDDO works with all affiliate agencies in the areas to promote and preserve quality services and programs that are accessible as well as cost effective. 

Services and Providers by County

Case Management

Provides supports to assist the person and the person's support network to identify, select, obtain, coordinate, and use both paid services and natural supports as may be available to enhance the person's independence, integration, and productivity consistent with the person's capabilities and preferences as outlined in the individual's person-centered support plan.

Case Management includes the following

Residential Service

Residential Service is provided to individuals who live in a residential setting and do not live with their birth or adoptive parents. This service provides assistance, acquisition, retention and/or improvement in skills related to activities of daily living such as personal grooming and cleanliness, bed making and household chores, eating and the preparation of food, and the social and adaptive skills necessary to enable the individual to reside in a non-institutional setting. Residential Service for adults are provided for consumers 18 years of age or older.  Providers are willing to expand services into other counties based on need and staff availability. 

Shared Living - one to two participants share a home with a family or single adult's family. The family lives with the participant and provides supports to them in accordance with their person-centered support plan.

Supported Residential Setting provides a variety of service options such as budgetary assistance, laundry, along with community supports to meet each individual's needs and desires. Individuals typically live on their own or with a roommate.

Supervised Group Living provides 24-hour staff availability on site to provide assistance with daily living skills and behavioral support.

Children Services

Children Services provides support to children and youth and their families in appropriate natural settings. Through parent and professional collaboration, the goal is to secure appropriate community-based and family centered services to enable the child to remain in their homes, foster homes, and communities. 

Early Childhood Intervention Services  provide home based or center based services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech/language, and family service coordination to children ages birth through two who have a diagnosed disability or are demonstrating developmental delays. 

Day and Work Services

Regularly occurring activities that provide a sense of participation, accomplishment, personal reward, personal contribution, or remuneration and thereby serve as vehicles to maintain or increase adaptive capabilities, independence, or integration and participation in the community. Services will cover a wide variety of possibilities based on the person's identified interests and needs. These can include socialization activities, recreation, community inclusion, environmental awareness/stimulation, training in following directions, adapting to work routines, carrying out assigned duties, acquiring appropriate situational attitudes and habits, adjusting to the productive and social demands of the workplace, mobility training, use of public facilities and job related facilities, and use of transportation opportunities.

Community Integration provides day service activities which include opportunities for participation in the community and learning activities such as adult education classes.

Supported Employment provides long term assistance in finding and maintaining employment.

Job Placement provides time limited assistance in becoming knowledgeable in job seeking skills, job duties, employment practices, and full integration into a workforce.

Work Services provides opportunities to learn marketable job skills while receiving commensurate wage for part time or full time employment.

Family Supports

Family Supports are available to individuals who live in the family home. This service provides necessary supports for individuals to meet their daily living needs and/or to insure continuation of stay in family homes. This service provides for paid staff to perform in home assistance any hour of the day or night, in the absence or presence of unpaid caregivers as determined to meet the individual's needs.Providers are willing to expand services into other counties based on need and staff availability. 

Personal Care Service provide direct assistance in daily living and personal adjustment, attendant care, assistance with medications that are ordinarily self-administered and accessing medical care, supervision, reporting changes in the individual's condition and needs, extension of therapy services, ambulation and exercise, household services essential to health care at home or performed in conjunction with assistance in daily living (e.g. shopping, meal preparation, cleanup after meals, bathing, using appliances, dressing, feeding, bed making, laundry and cleaning the bathroom and kitchen) and household maintenance related to the consumer.

Specialized Medical Care provides long-term nursing support for medically fragile and technology dependent beneficiaries who require care from an LPN or RN.

Self Direction

Within the self directed model, individuals have the right to make decisions about, direct the provisions of and control the services received. This includes selecting, training, managing, paying and dismissing of an attendant. The individual or individual's representative has decision making authority over certain services and takes direct responsibility to mange their services. Two options are available for self-direction:  Personal Care Services and  Limited License.