Tailored Support Services for Individuals with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities and those that support them
Residential Habilitation (RHS)
Service Definition: Residential habilitation and support hourly (RHS hourly) services mean individually tailored supports that are specified in the PCISP that assist with the acquisition, retention, or improvement in skills related to living in the community. These supports include adaptive skill development, assistance with activities of daily living, community inclusion, transportation, adult educational supports, and social and leisure skill development that support the individual to live successfully in his or her own home.
Participant Assistance and Care (PAC)
Service Definition: Participant assistance and care services are provided to allow individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities to remain and live successfully in their own homes, function and participate in their communities, and avoid institutionalization. PAC services support and enable the individual in activities of daily living, self-care, and mobility with hands-on assistance, prompting, reminders, support, and monitoring needed to ensure the health and safety, of the individual.
Daily Habilitation Individual (DHI)
Service Definition: Day habilitation (effective 8/1/2020) are services that are specified in the PCISP and support learning and assistance in the areas of: self-care, sensory/motor development, socialization, daily living skills, communication, community living, and social skills. Day habilitation activities are intended to build relationships and natural supports.
Behavior Supports
Service Definition: Behavioral supports are an array of services designed to support individuals who are experiencing or are likely to experience challenges accessing, and actively participating in the community as a result of behavioral, social, or emotional challenges. Behavioral support services are intended to empower individuals and families (by leveraging their strengths and unique abilities) to achieve self-determination, interdependence, productivity, integration and inclusion in all facets of community life, across all environments, across the lifespan.
Workplace Assistance
Service Definition: Workplace assistance services provide a range of personal care services and/or supports during paid competitive community employment hours and in a competitive community employment setting to enable waiver individuals to accomplish tasks that they would normally do for themselves if they did not have a disability. Assistance may take the form of hands-on assistance (actually performing a personal care task for the individual) or prompting the individual to perform a personal care task. Workplace assistance services may be provided on an episodic or on a continuous basis. Workplace assistance services are designed to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individual, thereby assisting in the retention of paid employment for the individual who is paid at or above the federal minimum wage.
Transportation Supports
Service Definition: Transportation services are services to transfer individuals in a vehicle from the point of pick-up to a destination point. Transportation services enable individuals to access non-medical community services, resources, destinations, or places of employment, as well as maintain or improve their mobility within the community, increase independence and community participation and prevent institutionalization as specified by the PCISP.
