Individualized Home
Supports

Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support and training in community living service categories. There are three types of Individualized Home Supports:
  • Without Training
  • With Training
  • With Family Training
Individualized Home Supports cover community living services in four categories:
  • Community Participation
  • Health, Safety, and Wellness
  • Household Management
  • Adaptive Skills

When a person receives individualized home supports without training, they will receive support in at least
one of the community living service categories.
When a person receives individualized home supports with training or individualized home supports with
family training, they will receive training in at least one of the community living service categories. They also
may receive support in any of the community living service categories.

Community Participation includes the following service categories:
  • Community mobility and pedestrian safety
  • Community resource use 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 includes the following service categories:
  • 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-care activities
  • Health services support
  • Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors
  • Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety, and wellness goals
Household Management includes the following service categories:
  • Cueing, guidance, supervision, training, or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance
  • Household safety knowledge and skills
  • Tenancy support and advocacy
  • Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with (Budgeting, Meal-Planning, or cooking, Personal-needs purchasing)
Adaptive Skills includes the following service categories:
  • Crisis prevention skills
  • Implementation of positive support strategies
  • Problem-solving
  • Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills
  • Support strategies for self-sufficiency
  • Support and training to increase positive behavior, resulting in reduction or elimination of challenging behavior