Services

Private Pay

A caregiver will come into your home to provide any of the following services:

• Personal Care-  Assists member with activities of daily living, maintaining personal cleanliness & meeting essential personal physical needs. This may include;  Showering, Bathing, Toileting, Dressing, Grooming, Oral Hygiene, Ambulation activities, Transferring to and from wheelchair, Assisting with adaptive equipment.  Preparing & Serving food, encouraging to eat, Assisting with self-administration of medications, etc.

 

• Light Housekeeping-  This service is only performed in clients areas of the home or common areas of the home used by the client.  It is providing routine household activities at a client's place of residence.  This may include: Dusting, cleaning floors, bathrooms, oven, refrigerator, and windows (if necessary for safe and sanitary living conditions).  Cleaning kitchen, washing dishes, routine maintenance & cleaning of household appliances, Changing linens & making beds, Washing, drying & folding laundry, shopping for and storing household supplies & medications, Taking out garbage, etc.  *If the client lives by themselves we may assist them in all areas of their home.
  
   

• Errands-This is doing routine chores for the member. This may include going to the post office, grocery store, picking up prescriptions, or any other routine community activities

 

• Respite-  Short term care & supervision of the client.  Supplementing care and/or to support or relieve caregivers for the benefit of the client.  This may include: providing relief to family members/caregiver, provide supervision at all times for client, provide for social, emotional, & physical needs, ensure medications are taken on time, provide for first aid & appropriate attention to injury/illness, assist with transportation in all daily living activities i.e. employment site, day treatment, medical appointments, visiting with family/friends.

HCBS Services through DES/DDD

A caregiver will come and provide contracted services in your home.  These could include some of the following:

• Respite-  Short term care & supervision of the client.  Supplementing care and/or to support or relieve caregivers for the benefit of the client.  This may include: providing relief to family members/caregiver, provide supervision at all times for client, provide for social, emotional, & physical needs, ensure medications are taken on time, provide for first aid & appropriate attention to injury/illness, assist with transportation in all daily living activities i.e. employment site, day treatment, medical appointments, visiting with family/friends.

 

• Habilitation-  Provides interventions to maximize the functioning of our clients. This can include habilitative therapies, special development skills, sensory-motor development & behavior intervention. This may include:  Strategies to address behavioral concerns, Implementing recommendations from speech, physical, & occupational therapies, mobility training, alternative or adaptive communication training, self help skills (bathing, combing hair, brushing teeth, etc.) Self help skills ( laundry, cooking, cleaning etc.) Exercise programs, Money management, banking, shopping, Community survival skills, stranger/danger skills. etc.

 

• Attendant Care-  Is service that provides routine homemaking, personal care, respite care, general supervision, and companionship for extended time periods to members for the purpose of keeping members well integrated with their families.

 

• Non-Emergency Transportation- Providing transportation to and from a day treatment or work program.

 

• Light Housekeeping-  This service is only performed in clients areas of the home or common areas of the home used by the client.  It is providing routine household activities at a client's place of residence.  This may include: Dusting, cleaning floors, bathrooms, oven, refrigerator, and windows (if necessary for safe and sanitary living conditions).  Cleaning kitchen, washing dishes, routine maintenance & cleaning of household appliances, Changing linens & making beds, Washing, drying & folding laundry, shopping for and storing household supplies & medications, Taking out garbage, etc.

 

• Job Coaching-  Job Coaching involves helping a client through the initial aspects of obtaining a job.  This may be with filing an application, the initial interviews.  Troubleshooting any areas or difficulties with the management.

 

•  Job Follow Along-  Once a client has obtained employment, Job Follow Along may entail, being at the place of employment, helping the client with any issues that may arise with management or co-workers.  Following through to make sure the client understands their duties, and addressing any issues the client may have with their new employment.

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Adult & Child Development Home

This is where a person or couple opens up their home and can have up to 3 persons with developmental disabilities move into their home.  The home will have licensing standards to follow with full support from People First.  Training will occur in the home for the individual to help them become more independent.

Vocational Rehabilitation

Transportation- To and from assessment sites, college classes, employment etc.

Adoption Subsidy

Respite- This can include meals, hygiene, taking to appointments, arts & crafts, community outings etc.