Community Supports definition

Community Supports means support provided to assist individuals to develop skills and social connections. The supports may include teaching and/or assistance in daily living, support to participate in community activities, and building and sustaining healthy personal, family and community relationships. Community Supports may involve individual supports or group supports (two or more people). Community supports includes transportation to access the community. Supports must be provided in accordance with the desires of the individual and their Individual Support Agreement and take place within settings that afford opportunities for choice and inclusion that are consistent with federal home and community-based services rules.

Community Supports means resources, services, and supports available to a client as a member of the community. This includes, but not limited to, resources available through organizations such as faith-based, cultural, geographic, non-profit, for-profit, and community groups.

Community Supports means community services such as recreational activities, social clubs, religious services, employment services, and transportation, as well as other supportive services that are available to the general population and not designated to serve only persons with disabilities.

Examples of Community Supports in a sentence

• Mandatory 50 pointsSubmission of a narrative describing how the MCP will collaborate with all MCPs in the county to leverage and expand existing WPC capacity and support ongoing Community Supports (ILOS) capacity building approaches.

• Describe 3-4 identified gaps or limitations in Community Supports (ILOS) coverage within the county.

• Mandatory 20 pointsNarrative summary that outlines landscape of Tribes, Tribal providers in the county, and members in the county who use Tribal services and submission of a narrative plan to develop an MOU to establish a strategic partnership with Tribes and Tribal providers in county to develop Provider capacity and provision of Community Supports (ILOS)services for members of TribesMCP Submission1.

• I authorize DDA to request and receive information from any person, organization or company listed on this application regarding my previous employment, education and qualifications to provide services and support under DDA’s Family Support and/or Community Supports Waivers.

• Services and supports may include: Service Coordination, Community Supports, Employment Supports, Respite Supports, Clinical Services, Supportive Services, Crisis Services, Home Supports and Transportation Services.

More Definitions of Community Supports

Community Supports means services that promote the ability of persons with disabilities to be self-sufficient and live independently in their own communities.

Community Supports means community based programs designed to promote independence, productivity and integration for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.

Community Supports means resources or services accessible to a client as a member of the community.

Community Supports means services that are inclusive of personal assistant services (Attendant PAS and Socialization/Supervision PAS), homemaker, chore, transportation, and respite type services.

Community Supports means support provided to assist individuals to develop skills and social

Community Supports means support provided to assist individuals to develop skills and social connections. The supports may include teaching and/or assistance in daily living, support to participate in community activities, and building and sustaining healthy personal, family and community relationships.

Community Supports means “in-lieu of services”, as set forth in 42 CFR § 438.3(e)(2), services or settings that are offered in place of services or settings covered under the California Medicaid State Plan and are medically appropriate, cost-effective alternatives to the State Plan Covered Services. Community Supports are optional for both CalOptima and the Member and must be approved by the DHCS and authorized and identified in CalOptima’s Medi-Cal Contract with DHCS. Effective no sooner than January 1, 2022, CalOptima shall offer the following four (4) selected DHCS-approved Community Supports, as further defined in CalOptima Policy GG.1355: Community Supports: (i) Housing Transition Navigation Services; (ii) Housing Deposits; (iii) Housing Tenancy and Sustaining Services; and (iv) Recuperative Care (Medical Respite). For purposes of this Contract, the Community Supports Provider shall offer to Members only the DHCS-approved Community Supports described in Attachment A, Part XV of this Contract.