Individualized Home Supports

Individualized home supports require a person receives training in one or more community living service categories. In addition to the training requirement, individualized home supports may provide support in any of the community living service categories.

The community living service categories are:

  • Community participation
  • Health, safety and wellness
  • Household management
  • Adaptive skills.

Community participation
This community living service category may include:

  • Community mobility and pedestrian safety (e.g., safely getting in and around the community)
  • Community resource utilization 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
This community living service category may include:

  • Collaboration with the person to arrange health care (e.g., physical, mental, chemical), meaningful activities, social services, meetings and appointments
  • Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete self-cares (Note: Cannot duplicate use of eligible MA state plan home care services;
  • Health services support as defined in Minn. Stat. §245D.05
  • Help for the person to activate and build resiliency factors.
  • Support for the person in designing and meeting individualized strategies to reach health, safety and wellness goals.

Household management
This community living service category may include:

  1. Cueing, guidance, supervision, training or instructional support to complete routine household cares and maintenance
  2. Household safety knowledge and skills
  3. Tenancy support and advocacy
  4. Training, assistance, support and/or guidance with:
    • Budgeting and assistance to manage money
    • Cooking, meal planning and nutrition
    • Healthy lifestyle skills and practices
    • Household chores, including minor household maintenance activities (the cost of the maintenance replacement item[s] or product[s] is the responsibility of the person)
    • Personal needs purchasing.

Adaptive skills
This community living service category may include:

  • Crisis prevention skills
  • Implementation of positive support strategies
  • Community safety and awareness
  • Problem solving
  • Sensory/motor development involved in acquiring functional skills
  • Support strategies for self-sufficiency
  • Support/training to increase positive behavior resulting in reduction or elimination of maladaptive behavior.