Habilitation
Services designed to deploy a wide array of support for our members.
Service Setting:
The Member’s Home: Any community site inspected and approved by the Department of Economic Security; The home of the qualified Vendor or Direct Care Employee Professional that has been inspected and approved by the Department of health or the Department of Economic Security.Service Goals:
To enable the member to acquire knowledge and skills and be a valued member of his/her community based on his/her own choices. To provide training to increase or maintain the member’s self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills to reside and participate successfully with his/her family in his/her own community. To assist the member in achieving and maintaining a quality of life that promotes the member’s vision of the future.Service Objectives:
To establish for the member time-limited training objectives that are based on assessment data and input from the member and the member’s responsible person who will allow the member to achieve his/her long-term vision. Develop strategies for habilitation objectives within ten (10) business days after initiation of services. The specific training strategy for each objective shall identify the schedule for implementation, frequency of services, data collection methods, and teaching strategies. Upon the presence or absence of measurable progress, make changes to specific training objective(s) and/or strategies.
Provide training and or assistance such as:
- Assistance and training related to personal and physical needs and outline daily living skills;
- Implementing strategies to address behavioral concerns, developing behavior intervention programs, and coordination with behavioral health programs to ensure proper review of medication treatment plans;
- Ensuring that the health needs of the member are being met, including providing follow up as requested by the member’s primary care physician or medical specialist;
- Implementing all therapeutic recommendations including speech, occupational, and physical therapy, and assisting member in following special diets, exercise routines, or other therapeutic regimes;
- Mobility training, alternative or adaptive communication training;
- Opportunities for training and/or practice in basic member skills such as shopping, banking, money management, access and use of community resources, and community survival skills; and
- Assisting member in utilizing community transportation resources to support the member in all daily living activities, e.g., day treatment and training, employment situation, medical appointments, visits with family and friends and other community activities.
Play an active role in ensuring that services with other involved entities, including day treatment and training providers, health care, and schools are coordinated to meet the needs of the member.
Provide training and/or assistance to the member’s family/member’s responsible person to increase and/or maintain targeted skills acquisition of the member.
With input from the member, the member’s responsible person, and his/her significant other(s), develop strategies for habilitation objectives that can be carried out in context with the member’s daily routine.
Communicate with the family/member’s responsible person regarding, how the plan is working when the Direct Care Employee Professional is not present.
HAH cannot be provided while the member is sleeping and cannot be used in place of another service. The maximum amount of HAH that can be used in a 24-hour period is 10.
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