Personal care is also provided as needed. In Home Support provides services to individuals who reside with their family within the family home. In Home Support Services involves the implementation of a designated program to allow the client to acquire, retain and improve the self help, socialization and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully in the community. Clients are trained in techniques to address functional deficits in self help, daily living skills, mobility, learning, communications, self-sufficiency, survival skills, reduction of maladaptive behaviors, community access and other skills. Respite Care services can be provided in a recipient's home or place of residence, foster home or approved facility.
Clients are responsible for providing their own personal items in such circumstances.
Location of the service is at the discretion of the Community Living Coordinator or Executive Director. The primary roles of the Case Manager are that of client advocate, crisis interventionalist and safeguarder of individual rights. The Case Manager is also responsible for locating, coordinating, developing and monitoring individual client services and ensuring delivery of appropriate services in a planned, efficient and effective manner. The Case Manager typically chairs annual client staffings, six month update staffings and any other necessary supplemental staffings. With input from the Interdisciplinary Team, the Case Manager writes the client's Individual Program Plans and ensures appropriate staff are adequately trained to properly carry out the Individual Plan of Care.