Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 32 - Rehabilitation And Disabilities › Part 1 - Office of Special Disability Programs Policy Manual › PROCEDURE MANUAL › Section 32-1-4.4 - INDEPENDENT LIVING GRANT SERVICES

Current through June 25, 2024
A)
Advocacy/Legal Services
Assistance and /or
				representation in obtaining access to benefits, services, and programs to which
				a consumer may be entitled.
B)
Assistive Technology
Any assistive technology device,
				that is, any item, piece of equipment or product system that is used to
				increase, maintain or improve functional capabilities of individuals with
				disabilities and any assistive technology service that assists an individual
				with a disability in the selection, acquisition or use of an assistive
				technology device.
C)
Children's Services
The provision of specific IL
				services designed to serve individuals with significant disabilities under the
				age of 14.
D)
Communication Services
Services directed to enable
				consumers to better communicate, such as interpreter services, training in
				communication equipment use, Braille instruction, and reading
				services.
E)
Counseling
				and Related Services
These include information sharing,
				psychological services of a non-psychiatric, non-therapeutic nature,
				parent-to-parent services, and related services.
F)
Family Services
Services provided to the family members of an individual with a significant
				disability when necessary for improving the individual's ability to live and
				function more independently, or ability to engage or continue in employment.
				Such services may include respite care. Record the service in the consumer's
				CSR on behalf of whom services were provided to the family.
G)
Housing, Home Modifications,
				and Shelter Services
These services are related to securing
				housing or shelter, adaptive housing services (including appropriate
				accommodations to and modifications of any space used to serve, or occupied by
				individuals with significant disabilities).
H)
IL Skills Training and Life
				Skill Training Services
These may include instruction to develop
				independent living skills in areas such as personal care, coping, financial
				management, social skills, and household management. This may also include
				education and training necessary for living in the community and participating
				in community activities.
I)
Information and Referral Services
Identify all
				individuals who requested this type of assistance. This is the only service
				(other then services to family members) that may be provided to all
				individuals, whether or not the individual has a disability. Some entities
				record this service using strokes on an answering pad without opening a CSR,
				others create a CSR or other such file for future contact and
				outreach.
J)
Mental
				Restoration Services
Psychiatric restoration services including
				maintenance on psychotropic medication, psychological services, and treatment
				management for substance abuse.
K)
Mobility Training Services
A variety of services
				involving assisting consumers to get around their homes and
				communities.
L)
Peer
				Counseling Services
Counseling, teaching, information sharing, and
				similar kinds of contact provided to consumers by other people with
				disabilities.
M)
Personal Assistance Services
These include, but are
				not limited to, assistance with personal bodily functions; communicative,
				household, mobility, work, emotional, cognitive, personal, and financial
				affairs; community participation; parenting; leisure; and other related
				needs.
N)
Physical
				Restoration Services
Restoration services including medical
				services, health maintenance, eyeglasses, and visual services.
O)
Preventive
				Services
Services intended to prevent additional disabilities, or
				to prevent an increase in the severity of an existing disability.
P)
Prostheses, Orthotics, and
				Other Appliances
Provision of, or assistance in obtaining through
				other sources, an adaptive device or appliance to substitute for one or more
				parts of the human body.
Q)
Recreational Services
Provision or identification of
				opportunities for the involvement of consumers in meaningful leisure time
				activities. These may include such things as participation in community affairs
				and other recreation activities that may be competitive, active, or
				quiet.
R)
Rehabilitation Technology Services
Any service that
				assists an individual with a disability in the selection, acquisition or use of
				applied technologies, engineering methodologies or scientific principles to
				meet the needs of the individual and address the barriers confronted by
				individuals with significant disabilities with respect to education,
				rehabilitation, employment, transportation, IL and/or recreation.
S)
Therapeutic
				Treatment
Services provided by registered occupational,
physical, recreational, hearing, language, or speech
				  therapists.
T)
Transportation Services
Provision of, or arrangements
				for, transportation.
U)
Youth/Transition Services
Any service that develops
				skills specifically designed for youth with significant disabilities between
				the ages 14 and 24 to promote self-awareness and esteem, develop advocacy and
				self-empowerment skills and career exploration, including the transition from
				school to post school activities such as postsecondary education, vocational
				training, employment, continuing and adult education, adult services,
				independent living or community participation.
V)
Vocational
				Services
Any services designed to achieve or maintain
				employment.
W)
Other
				Services
Any IL services not listed above in A-V.