Helping you live life in the community.
Individualized home supports aim to train clients with the necessary skills to live in the community successfully. Various skills training in community living services will be given to the client so that he or she can maintain independence.
Categories under the community living services include:
Community participation
This community living service category may include:
- Community mobility and pedestrian safety
- 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, meaningful activities, social services, meetings, and appointments
- Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-cares
- Health services support
- Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors
- Support for the person in designing and meeting individualized strategies to reach health, safety, and wellness goals.
Household management
This community living service category may include:
1. Cueing, guidance, supervision, training, or instructional support to complete routine household cares and maintenance
2. Household safety knowledge and skills
3. Tenancy support and advocacy
4. Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with:
- Financial assistance and management
- Cooking, meal planning, and nutrition
- Healthy lifestyle skills and practices
- Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities
- Personal needs purchasing
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 the reduction or elimination of maladaptive behavior.