North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 63 - SERVICES FOR THE BLIND › Subchapter E - INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES › Section .0200 - GOALS AND SERVICES › Section 63E .0202 - SERVICES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The following
				  services are provided by the Division of Services for the Blind under this
				  Section:
(1) In-Home Aide Services: Chore
				  Services for the Blind. In-Home Aide Services are those services which assist
				  the individual or family with essential home management tasks necessary to
				  enable the individual and family to remain and function effectively at home for
				  as long as possible.
(2) Adjustment
				  Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired. These are services provided in
				  any combination as needed and appropriate to enable blind and visually impaired
				  individuals to attain or maintain the highest level of functioning possible, to
				  promote their well-being, and to prevent or reduce dependency. This is achieved
				  through a focused regimen of counseling and casework assistance to individuals
				  and their families to help individuals choose, obtain, and use needed
				  resources, services, and mechanisms of support. Within this context one or more
				  of the following service components or resource items may be provided as part
				  of the Adjustment Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired category.
(A) Assistance with the demands of daily
				  living may be provided through training in areas such as grooming skills;
				  manipulative skills such as the use of household appliances; money
				  identification and communication skills such as braille, typing, and use of the
				  telephone;
(B) The teaching of
				  orientation and mobility skills;
(C) Therapeutic experiences aimed at helping
				  the individual to adjust to and accept his visual limitations through camping
				  experiences, recreational programs, adjustment training at rehabilitation
				  centers, and individual and group counseling sessions;
(D) The following services/items may be
				  provided: reader services, interpreter services for the deaf/blind, braille,
				  large print and taped material, low vision optical aids, travel aids and
				  devices, community sponsored recreational activities, devices to support
				  independence such as talking clocks, talking calculators, and braille
				  watches.
(3) Individual
				  and Family Adjustment Services. These services are designed to assist the
				  consumer and his or her family in adjusting to the consumer's vision loss,
				  making necessary accommodations and modifications to the environment after
				  vision loss, and identifying community supports. Activities may include
				  counseling to assist the consumer to recognize, understand, and cope with
				  problems in such areas as household management, consumer affairs, family life
				  education, and other disabling conditions.
(4) Health Support Services. These services
				  provide help to individuals and families to recognize health needs including
				  those related to alcohol and drug abuse and to secure needed health services
				  available under medicaid, medicare, or other agency health services programs
				  and from other public or private agencies or providers of health services;
				  counseling and planning with individuals, families, and health providers to
				  help assure continuity of treatment and the carrying out of health
				  recommendations; and helping individuals to secure admission to medical
				  institutions and other health-related facilities as needed.
(5) Housing and Home Improvement Services.
				  These services provide assistance to individuals and families in obtaining and
				  retaining housing and basic furnishings. Services include helping to improve
				  landlord-tenant relations, to identify housing, to secure correction of housing
				  code violations, to obtain or retain ownership of own home, and to find and
				  relocate to more suitable housing.
(6) Information and Referral. This means
				  giving information about services provided under the state's social services
				  program and other service programs, both public and private; brief assessment
				  to determine the most appropriate resource to meet the stated needs of the
				  person requesting services; and referral to and follow-up with those community
				  resources which provide or make available such services.