Family Support Waiver (FSW)
The POC/service plan is subject to an annual waiver services cost cap of $26,482. • Hab – Behavior Management
- Intensive Behavioral Intervention Lvl-2
- Participant Assistance and Care (PAC)
- Transportation – FSW
- Workplace Assistance
Community Integration Habilitation (CIH)
- Hab – Behavior Management
- Intensive Behavioral Intervention Lvl-2
- Workplace Assistance
Hab – Behavior Management
Available under FSW and CIH waivers
Behavioral supports are an array of services designed to support individuals who are experiencing or are likely to experience challenges accessing, and actively participating in the community as a result of behavioral, social or emotional challenges.
Behavioral support services are intended to empower individuals and families (by leveraging their strengths and unique abilities) to achieve self-determination, interdependence, productivity, integration and inclusion in all facets of community life, across all environments, across the lifespan.
Intensive Behavioral Intervention (IBI)
Available under FSW and CIH waivers
Intensive behavioral intervention (IBI) services focus on developing effective behavior management strategies for individuals whose challenging behavioral issues put them at risk of placement in a more restrictive residential setting. IBI services teach the individual, families and other caregivers how to respond to and deal with intense and challenging behaviors. IBI services are designed to reduce an individual’s behaviors and improve independence and inclusion in the community. The need for IBI services is determined by a functional, behavioral needs assessment of the individual. IBI services are specified in the PCISP.
Participant Assistance and Care (PAC)
Available only through FSW waiver
Participant Assistance and Care (PAC) services are provided to allow individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities to remain and live successfully in their own homes, function and participate in their communities, and avoid institutionalization. PAC services
support and enable the individual in activities of daily living, self-care and mobility with hands on assistance, prompting, reminders, support, and monitoring needed to ensure the health and safety, of the individual.
Transportation
Available under the FSW waiver
Transportation services are services to transfer individuals in a vehicle from the point of pick-up to a destination point. Transportation services enable individuals to access nonmedical community services, resources, destinations or places of employment, as well as maintain or improve their mobility within the community, increase independence and community participation and prevent institutionalization as specified by the PCISP.
- Level 1: Transportation in a private, commercial or public transit vehicle that is not specially equipped.
Workplace Assistance
Available under FSW and CIH waivers
Workplace assistance services provide a range of personal care services and/or supports during paid competitive community employment hours and in a competitive community employment setting to enable waiver individuals to accomplish tasks that they would normally do for themselves if they did not have a disability. Assistance may take the form of hands-on assistance (actually performing a personal care task for the individual) or prompting the individual to perform a personal care task. Workplace assistance services may be provided on an episodic or on a continuous basis.
Workplace assistance services are designed to ensure the health, safety and welfare of the individual, thereby assisting in the retention of paid employment for the individual who is paid at or above the federal minimum wage.