PARTICIPANT SERVICES
Community Access Services are designed to assist the participant in acquiring, retaining, or improving self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills required for active community participation and independent functioning. These services are provided in either community-based or facility-based settings. Community Access Group services are provided to individual participants or to group participants.
Prevocational Services are designed to prepare the participant for paid or unpaid employment. The participant is not expected to be able to join the general work force within one year. If compensated, individuals are paid piece rate or commensurate wage rate, a percentage of the prevailing wage that is based on productivity. Prevocational Services occur in facility-based settings or at community sites outside the facility for small groups of participants.
Supported Employment Services are ongoing supports that enable participants, for whom competitive employment at or above the minimum wage is unlikely absent the provision of supports, and who because of their disabilities, need supports to perform in regular work settings. Supported Employment Group services are provided to groups of participants, with a staff to participate ration of one to two or more. The staff ratio cannot exceed one (1) to ten (10). Supported Employment Individual services are provided to an individual participant, with a one-to-one ratio.
Community Living Support (CLS) Services are individually tailored supports that assist with the acquisition, retention, or improvement in skills related to a participant; continued residence in his or her own family home. Personal care/assistance may be a component part of CLS services, but may not compromise the entirety of the services, CLS services are offered to participants who live in their own or family home.
Respite Services provide brief periods of support or relief for caregivers or individuals with disabilities. Respite is provided in the following situations: 1) When families or the usual caretakers are in need of additional support or relief; 2) When the participant needs relief or a break from the caretaker; 3) When a participant is experiencing a crisis and needs structured, short-term support; 4) When relief from care giving is necessitated by unavoidable circumstances, such as family emergency.
