Residential Services

Residential Habilitation (Standard)

Residential habilitation service provides supervision and specific training activities that assist the recipient to acquire, maintain, or improve skills related to activities of daily living. The service focuses on personal hygiene skills, such as bathing and oral hygiene; homemaking skills such as food preparation, vacuuming, and laundry; and social and adaptive skills that enable the recipient to reside in the community. This training is provided in accordance with a formal implementation plan, developed by the provider with direction from the recipient, and reflects the recipient’s goals from the current support plan.

Providers must:

Direct care staff providing residential habilitation services in a licensed residential facility must:

Residential Habilitation (Behavior Focused)

Services must be provided in APD licensed residential habilitation group homes designated by the APD regional office as a behavior focused provider and meet the provider and staff qualifications identified above for standard residential habilitation.

Recipients with challenging behaviors can require more intense levels of residential habilitation services described as behavior focused residential habilitation or intensive behavior residential habilitation.

Providers and employees of provider agencies must:

Providers must also:

Residential Habilitation (Intensive behavior)

The goal of IB residential habilitation service is to prepare the recipient for full or partial reintegration into the community, with an expanded array of skills and behaviors, with a focus on independent adaptive functioning, and developing a healthy lifestyle, while participating in engaging and productive activities.

Recipients with challenging behaviors can require more intense levels of residential habilitation services described as behavior focused residential habilitation or intensive behavior residential habilitation.

Providers and employees of provider agencies must:

Providers must also:

Specialized Medical Home Care

Services provided to recipients with complex medical conditions requiring an intensive level of nursing care residing in a foster or group home. This can include recipients who are ventilator dependent, require tracheostomy care, or have a need for deep suctioning to maintain optimal health.

Providers must:

Providers of special medical home care must employ:

Supported Living Coaching
These services can include assistance with locating appropriate housing; the acquisition, retention, or improvement of skills related to activities of daily living (e.g., personal hygiene and grooming); household chores; meal preparation; shopping; personal finances; and the social and adaptive skills necessary to enable recipients to reside on their own.

Providers must:

Must meet, at a minimum, one of the following requirements:


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