Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES › Chapter 388-845 - DDA home and community based services waivers › Section 388-845-0001 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
"Aggregate services" means a combination of services subject
				  to the dollar limits in the basic plus waiver and CIIBS waiver.
"Allocation" means the amount of individual and family
				  services (IFS) waiver funding available to a client for a maximum of 12
				  months.
"Behavior support plan" means a plan written by a
				  professionally trained behavioral health or similar provider to address
				  behavioral health intervention needs.
"CARE" means comprehensive assessment and reporting
				  evaluation.
"Client" means a person who has a developmental disability
				  under RCW
				  71A.10.020(5) and has been
				  determined eligible to receive services from the administration under chapter
				  71A.16 RCW.
"DDA" means the developmental disabilities administration, of
				  the department of social and health services.
"DDA assessment" refers to the standardized assessment tool
				  under chapter 388-828 WAC, used by DDA to measure the support needs of people
				  with developmental disabilities.
"Department" means the department of social and health
				  services (DSHS).
"Evidence-based treatment" means the use of physical, mental,
				  and behavioral health interventions for which systematic, empirical research
				  has provided evidence of statistically significant effectiveness as treatments
				  for specific conditions. Alternate terms with the same meaning are
				  evidence-based practice (EBP) and empirically supported treatment (EST).
"Family" means one or more of the following relatives: Spouse
				  or registered domestic partner; natural, adoptive or step parent; grandparent;
				  child; stepchild; sibling; stepsibling; uncle; aunt; first cousin; niece; or
				  nephew.
"Family home" means the residence where you and your family
				  live.
"Gainful employment" means employment that reflects
				  achievement of or progress towards a living wage.
"General utility" describes something used by people in the
				  absence of illness, injury, or disability.
"HCBS waiver" is a home and community based services waiver
				  program under section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act.
"Home" means present place of long-term residence.
"ICF/IID" means an intermediate care facility for individuals
				  with intellectual disabilities.
"Integrated business settings" means a setting that enables
				  participants to either work alongside or interact with individuals who do not
				  have disabilities, or both.
"Integrated setting" means a setting in the community that
				  supports a client's full access to the greater community, including
				  opportunities to seek employment and work in competitive settings, engage in
				  community life, control personal resources, and receive services in the
				  community, to the same degree of access as people not receiving home and
				  community-based services.
"Legal representative" means a parent of a person who is
				  under 18 years of age, a person's legal guardian, a person's limited guardian
				  when the subject matter is within the scope of limited guardianship, a person's
				  attorney-at-law, a person's attorney-in-fact, or any other person who is
				  authorized by law to act for another person.
"Living wage" means the amount of earned wages needed to
				  enable an individual to meet or exceed his or her living expenses.
"Necessary supplemental accommodation representative" means
				  an individual who receives copies of DDA planned action notices (PANs) and
				  other department correspondence in order to help a client understand the
				  documents and exercise the client's rights. A necessary supplemental
				  accommodation representative is identified by a client of DDA when the client
				  does not have a legal guardian and the client is requesting or receiving DDA
				  services.
"Participant" means a client who is enrolled in a home and
				  community based services waiver program.
"Person-centered service plan" is a document that identifies
				  your goals and assessed health and welfare needs. Your person-centered service
				  plan also indicates the paid services and natural supports that will assist you
				  to achieve your goals and address your assessed needs.
"Primary caregiver" means the person who provides the
				  majority of your care and supervision.
"Provider" means an individual or agency who meets the
				  provider qualifications and is contracted with DSHS to provide services to
				  you.
"Respite assessment" means an algorithm within the DDA
				  assessment that determines the number of hours of respite care you may receive
				  per year if you are enrolled in the basic plus, children's intensive in-home
				  behavioral support, or core waiver.
"SSI" means supplemental security income, an assistance
				  program administered by the federal Social Security Administration for blind,
				  disabled, and aged individuals.
"SSP" means state supplementary payment program, a state-paid
				  cash assistance program for certain clients of the developmental disabilities
				  administration.
"State-funded services" means services that are funded
				  entirely with state dollars.
"You" means the client or participant.
"Waiver year" means the 12-month period starting from the
				  initial or annual plan effective date in the client's person-centered service
				  plan.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 74.08.090,
					 74.09.520, and 2012 c 49.
					 12-16-095, § 388-845-0001, filed 8/1/12, effective 9/1/12. Statutory
					 Authority:
					 RCW
					 71A.12.030,
					 71A.12.120, 2009 c 194, and 2008
					 c 329 § 205(1)(i), and Title 71A RCW. 10-22-088, § 388-845-0001,
					 filed 11/1/10, effective 12/2/10. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 71A.12.030,
					 71A.12.120 and Title 71A RCW.
					 08-20-033, § 388-845-0001, filed 9/22/08, effective 10/23/08; 07-20-050,
					 § 388-845-0001, filed 9/26/07, effective 10/27/07. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 71A.12.030, 71A.12.12 [71A.12.120] and
					 chapter 71A.12 RCW. 06-01-024, § 388-845-0001, filed 12/13/05, effective
					 1/13/06.