Individualized Home Supports | without training
All Services
- 24-Hour Emergency Assistance
- Adult Companion Services (EW only)
- Homemaker Services
- Individual Community Living Support (ICLS)
- Night Supervision
- Respite Care Services
- Individualized Home Supports (without training)
Individualized Home Supports (IHS)
Services for people who live in their own home or family home that provide support and/or training in the community living service categories listed in the covered services section. There are three types of IHS: Without training. With training. With family training.
Support in community living service categories
Cueing, skill maintenance, guidance, instruction, assistance with activities of daily living, assistance with coordination of community living activities or direct supervision. Support must be within an allowable community living service category.
IHS covers community living services in four categories:
- Community participation.
- Health, safety and wellness.
- Household management.
- Adaptive skills.
When a person receives IHS without training, they must receive support in at least one of the community living service categories.
- Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community).
- 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.