Personalized Support Within Your Home
In-home family support on the DD Waiver is a service provided to a person and his/her family (including extended family members who provide licensed foster care) 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.
This includes assistance with acquisition, retention, and improvement in skills such as:
Bed making and household chores
Eating and the preparation of food
Personal grooming and cleanliness
Social and adaptive skills necessary to enable the individual to reside in a non-institutional setting.
Examples of services include:
Communication
Community participation and mobility
Health care, leisure, and recreation
Household chores
Interpersonal skills
Money management
Reduction or elimination of maladaptive behavior
Sensory and motor development