Hometown Respite
Services
Non-Medical Personal Care
Staff will provide duties for the qualified individual on a one-on-one basis in their home. All duties performed will be non-medical and non-hands on. Such duties will include:
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Assistance with all household chores to include cooking/meal preparation, basic cleaning, and laundry;
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Assistance with activities such as shopping in the community;
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Simple companionship such as providing social interaction, conversation, and additional activities that help the individual to stimulate their mind; and
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Any other non-hands-on activities that are included in the individual’s service plan or discussed in the individual’s IDT meeting.
Community Based Respite
Staff will provide temporary relief for family caregivers, family members, and/or host-home providers, by providing respite services for individuals in the community for up to 10 hours a day.
Respite services can be provided on a one-on-one basis or in a group setting depending on the individual whom respite is being provided for and based on the individual’s service plan provided by the state agency and discussed in any IDT meetings.
All respite services will be provided out in the community and not in the home. Any respite provided will be provided in an age-appropriate manner.
Homemaker Basic
Staff will provide non-hands-on instructional education for basic household tasks with the individual in the individual’s primary residence such as:
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Basic cleaning to include proper use of cleaning products;
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Basic laundry to include proper washing, drying, and putting away of clothing;
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Assistance with cooking to include that proper safety measures are taken; and
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Household chores such as basic household maintenance.
Any and all assistance provided for the above referenced tasks or any additional tasks which are highlighted and discussed in an individual’s IDT plan will only be provided for if the assistance is necessary due to the individual’s disabilities and/or IDT plan.
Homemaker Enhanced
At times, additional advanced homemaker services can be provided in a non-hands-on manner at the individual’s primary residence, such as:
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Additional cleaning that requires more than basic instruction such as deep cleaning of the residence that the individual cannot perform themselves due to their disabilities;
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All the same tasks as listed in homemaker basic with the addition of further teaching and/or instruction from the qualified homemaker; and
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Habilitations services from qualified homemaker staff to include direct training and instruction to an individual on a one-on-one basis with the intent to help design a program to help the individual keep, learn, or improve their daily skills and functions for daily living.
Any services provided under this program will not include:
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Services for any animal care to include any incidental animal care such as cleaning for animals;
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Personal hands on care services;
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Heavy moving of household items;
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Outside housework;
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Cleaning of any pools or hot tubs or the like; and
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Getting onto the roof of the home or using a latter in any way in or out of the home.
Please note that some homemaker basic tasks will be incidental when providing enhanced homemaker services, however, the primary intent of the enhanced tasks will be to provided any needed habilitative services for the individual receiving care.
Supportive Community Connector
This service is intended to support the abilities and skills necessary to enable the qualified individual to access typical activities and functions of community life. This service will be provided by helping the individual to utilize their community as a learning tool and environment.
Services provided under this program will include:
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Proper socialization in the community and learning how to properly socialize if highlighted in the individual’s service plan;
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Helping teach the individual how to properly meet other people that share similar interests to them;
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How to access educational based services in the community such as libraries, workshops, or free classes;
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How to join a group if allowed by their individual service plan; and
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How to properly volunteer in the community if contained in their individual service plan.
Staff providing these services will be expected to:
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Provide instruction and help the individual receiving services on how to access or learn to access any portions of the community that are appropriate for them based on their individual service plan or as discussed in an IDT meeting;
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Assist the individual in building the relationships necessary to join groups, meet people, or access educational based services; and
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Provide opportunities for the individual to utilize their community as a learning tool and environment for the individual to prosper in.
Mentorship
The staff providing mentorship in the community will provide any necessary guidance, advice, feedback, to support the individual when pursuing goals highlighted and discussed in the individual’s service plan.
Services provided by the staff/mentor will include:
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Acting as a role model in the community regarding how to properly conduct oneself in the community;
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Teaching and advising on proper conduct in the community that is discussed in the individual’s individual service plan; and
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Helping to obtain goals in the community that are discussed in the individual service plan.