Common use of INTEGRATED DAY SERVICES AND PLACEMENTS Clause in Contracts

INTEGRATED DAY SERVICES AND PLACEMENTS. A. “Integrated Day Services” include the appropriate services and supports necessary to allow individuals with I/DD to participate in and gain membership in mainstream community- based recreational, social, educational, cultural, and athletic activities, including community volunteer activities and training activities, as well as other non-facility based activities of a person’s choosing that are provided in integrated settings during the day with the appropriate services and supports. B. Integrated Day Services will be provided to all individuals in the Rhode Island Sheltered Workshop, Rhode Island Youth Exit, and Rhode Island Day Target Populations who receive a Supported Employment Placement, for the remainder of all time set forth in an individual’s ISP in a 40-hour work week in which such individuals are not in school or supported employment. Integrated day settings must: 1. Allow individuals with disabilities the opportunity to interact with individuals without disabilities in a community setting to the fullest extent possible for the individual; and 2. Offer individuals with disabilities the same opportunity as non-disabled individuals: a. To engage in non-work activities that match the interests, preferences, and goals of the participant; and b. To do so at times, frequencies, and with persons of their choosing during the day, when an individual is not working or receiving residential care or educational services. 3. Integrated Day Services shall be individualized, flexible, purposeful, and productive daytime activities; shall be individually tailored to a person’s interests, abilities, and goals; and shall afford individuals the services and supports necessary to interact with non-disabled individuals to the fullest extent possible during the day.