Description

An intensive program that provides a variety of services to a child and family so that the child may remain in his or her home. Each family works with an Individual Care Coordinator (ICC) to develop a service plan based on the family's unique strengths and needs. Assists in linking the family to services, monitoring those services, and advocating for the child and family as necessary. Some of the family's needs may be met through community services such as school, recreational programs, or baby-sitting. Also available through HCBS, the family can access the following services from their choice of providers: - Respite care provides parents or guardians with a needed break. Respite can include planned activities both in and out of the home. Emergency overnight respite is also available. - Family support services are designed to help support the family as a unit. Families have access to support groups and one on-one parent mentors. This also includes more concrete services, such as budgeting, advocacy training, parent education, development of communication skills, and community awareness. - Crisis response service provides centralized on-call coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist the family through crisis situations. Crisis response services are also provided to families from other community agencies and are aimed at stabilizing occurrences of crises. - Intensive in-home services are available to families when crisis response services are not adequate to meet the need for crisis resolution. Counselors come into the home and provide intensive interventions aimed at stabilizing crisis. - Skill-building services are activities designed to assist the child in developing the skills needed to function more successfully in the community, home, and school. Vocation and social skills are examples of the areas that are addressed. The length of service depends on the need of the family. On average, a family is involved in the service for 9 months.

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