Individualized home supports: Services providing support and training in community living service categories for people 18 years or older who lives in their own homes. Individualized home supports can be provided in the person’s own home or in public community settings and either in person or remotely.
Support for individualized home supports: A staff member providing direct supervision, cueing, maintenance, guidance, instruction, incidental assistance with activities of daily living or assistance with coordination of community living activities.
Training for individualized home supports: Instructional services through which a person receives direct training from a staff member on community living skills identified in a person’s assessment (e.g., MnCHOICES, long-term care consultation [LTCC]). Training includes skill building to acquire, retain and improve the person’s experience living in the community.
Community living service categories: Broad service categories for providing support and training to help a person to live independently in the community. The community living service categories are:
- Community participation
- Health, safety and wellness
- Household management
- Adaptive skills.
Eligibility
Individualized home supports are available for people in their own homes (see CBSM – Requirements for a person’s own home) and on one of the following waivers:
What we do:
Individualized home supports require a person receives training in one or more community living service categories. In addition to the training requirement, individualized home supports may provide support in any of the community living service categories.
The community living service categories are:
- Community participation
- Health, safety and wellness
- Household management
- Adaptive skills.
Community participation
This community living service category may include:
- Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)
- Community resource utilization and access
- Community safety and awareness
- Informal support system and network development
- Interpersonal communications skills
- Leisure, recreation and socialization planning
- Skill building to meet transportation needs.
Health, safety and wellness
This community living service category may include:
- Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments
- Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-cares (Note: Cannot duplicate use of eligible MA state plan home care services; see CBSM – Home care overview)
- Health services support as defined in Minn. Stat. §245D.05
- Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors. (e.g., whole health action management)
- Support for the person in designing and meeting individualized strategies to reach health, safety and wellness goals.
Health, safety and wellness
This community living service category may include:
- Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments
- Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-cares (Note: Cannot duplicate use of eligible MA state plan home care services; see CBSM – Home care overview)
- Health services support as defined in Minn. Stat. §245D.05
- Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors. (e.g., whole health action management)
- Support for the person in designing and meeting individualized strategies to reach health, safety and wellness goals.
Adaptive skills
This community living service category may include:
- Crisis prevention skills
- Implementation of positive support strategies
- Problem solving
- Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills
- Support strategies for self-sufficiency
- Support/training to increase positive behavior resulting in reduction or elimination of maladaptive behavior.