Integrated Community Supports
Community participation
This category may include:
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Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community).
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Community resource use and access.
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Community safety and awareness.
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Informal support system and network development.
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Interpersonal communications skills.
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Leisure, recreation and socialization planning.
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Skill-building to meet transportation needs.
Household management
This category may include:
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Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete routine household care and maintenance.
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Household safety knowledge and skills.
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Tenancy support and advocacy.
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Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with Budgeting, assistance, Cooking, meal-planning, nutrition, Healthy lifestyle skills and practices.
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Personal-needs purchasing.
Services that provide support and training in community, to adults age 18 and older who reside in a living unit of a provider-controlled, integrated community supports setting (e.g., apartment in a multi-family housing building). Integrated community supports can be delivered up to 24 hours per day in the person’s living unit or in the community.
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Training for integrated community supports: Instructional services through which a person receives direct training from a staff member on community living skills identified in the person’s assessment. Training includes skill-building to acquire, retain and improve the person’s experience living in the community.
Health, safety and wellness
This category may include:
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Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments.
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Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-care activities.
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Health services support, as defined in Minn. Stat. §245D.05.
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Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors (e.g., whole health action management)
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Support for the person to design and meet individualized strategies to reach their health, safety and wellness goals.
Adaptive skills
This category may include:
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Crisis prevention skills.
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Implementation of positive support strategies.
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Problem-solving.
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Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills.
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Support strategies for self-sufficiency.
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Support and training to increase positive behavior, resulting in reduction or elimination of challenging behavior.