Decatur County
Services and Providers
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
Assessment
Support Planning
Support Coordination
Assisting Transition and Portability
Day Service Providers
Community Integration
Supported Employment
Job Placement
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. Day 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.
Residential Service Providers
Shared Living
Supported Residential Setting
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 or 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.
Family Supports
Personal Care Services
Specialized Medical Care
Family Supports are available to consumers who live in the family home. This service provides necessary supports for consumers 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 consumer'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 consumer'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.
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.