Waiver Funded Services

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SCL provides 1 to 24 hours of support per day based on the individual’s needs.

This service is designed to assist the member with daily living needs. Assistance may include, but is not limited to:

- Personal and home skills

- Community skills

- Personal needs

- Transportation

- Treatment services

Individually designed strategies to increase the member’s appropriate behaviors and decrease any maladaptive behaviors that interfere with the member’s ability to remain in the community. This may include, but is not limited to, the following:

- Clinical redirection

- Reinforcement

- Extinction

- Modeling

-Overlearning

Face-to-face mental health services that help the member, the member’s family members or friends with:

- Crisis coping strategies

-  Stress reduction

- Management of depression

- Alleviation of psychosocial isolation

- Support in coping with the effects of brain injury

Respite care services are services provided to the member that gives temporary relief to the usual caregiver and provides all the necessary care that the usual caregiver would provide during that time period. The purpose of respite care is to enable the member to remain in the member’s current living situation.

- Group respite means respite provided at a ratio of one staff to two or more members.

(Thoroughways would provide this in the community)

- Basic individual respite means respite provided at a ratio of one staff to one member for individuals who do not have specialized medical needs that would require care by a licensed registered nurse or licensed practical nurse.