Habilitation-Group Home (HAB)

Service Description (All Group Homes)

Services provide a variety of interventions designed to maximize the functioning of persons with developmental disabilities. Services may include, but are not limited to habilitative therapies, special developmental skills, behavior intervention, and sensorimotor development.

Service Requirements and Limitations (All Group Homes)

• This service shall be provided to consumers in a residential setting who have a variety of needs, including behavioral, physical, and medical challenges. These settings typically serve two (2) to four (4) consumers; they may serve up to six (6) consumers.
• This service shall not be provided when the consumer is hospitalized.
• Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall have applied for and been awarded the service of Room and Board, All Group Homes, and shall at all relevant times be providing the service of Room and Board, All Group Homes.
• This service is authorized for the day.
• Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall not be relieved of its obligation to continue to serve a consumer when the needs of that consumer change.
  • When the consumer’s needs change, Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall send written notice by email or facsimile to the consumer’s Support Coordinator promptly (within one business day) of the occurrence of the change. Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall initiate a cooperative planning process with the consumer’s planning team to update and revise the consumer’s planning document. Meaningful Life Behavioral Health’s staff will be involved when the change needed is medical in nature.
• Transportation to school, day programs, and employment services shall be the responsibility of Meaningful Life Behavioral Health. Other reasonable transportation within the community is also the responsibility of Meaningful Life Behavioral Health, including fees associated with the transportation. If a consumer chooses not to use the group home provided transportation and the consumer’s choice to use public transportation is documented in the consumer’s planning document, fees associated with the public transportation are the responsibility of the consumer.
• Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall meet the requirements of Arizona Administrative Code (“A.A.C.”) Title 6, Chapter 6, Article 8.

Service Goals (All Group Homes)

1. To provide a broad array of support services to promote the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of the consumer.
2. To enable the consumer to acquire knowledge and skills and participate in his/her community based on his/her choices.
3. To provide training and supervision for the consumer to increase or maintain his/her self- help, socialization, and adaptive skills.
4. To develop positive relationships with others.
5. To provide opportunities to interact with others in the community.
6. To assist the consumer in achieving and maintaining a quality of life that promotes the consumer’s vision for the future and priorities.
7. To assure the health and safety of all residents.

Service Objectives (All Group Homes)

Meaningful Life Behavioral Health shall ensure that the following objectives are met:

1. In accordance with each consumer’s s planning document (e.g., ISP), assist in developing:
   1. Habilitation-related outcomes that are based on assessment data and input from the consumer and the consumer’s representative which will allow the consumer to achieve his/her long term vision for the future and priorities.
   2. A specific teaching strategy for each habilitative outcome within twenty (20) business days following the initiation of the service for a new or a continuing placement and whenever a new outcome is identified for the consumer. The specific teaching strategy for each outcome shall identify the schedule for implementation, frequency of services, data collection methods, and the steps to be followed to teach the new skill.
   3. Changes to specific outcome(s) and/or strategies, as agreed upon by the consumer’s planning team, based upon the presence or absence of measurable progress by the consumer.
2. As identified in each consumer’s planning document, provide a broad array of support services such as:
   1. Assistance and training related to personal and physical needs and routine daily living skills;
   2. Implementing strategies to DDD’s behavioral concerns, developing behavior support programs, and coordinating with behavioral health programs to ensure proper review of medication treatment plans;
   3. Ensuring that the health needs of the consumer are being met, including providing follow up as requested by the consumer’s Primary Care Provider (“PCP”) or medical specialist;
   4. Implementing all therapeutic recommendations including speech, occupational, and physical therapy and assisting consumers in following diets, exercise routines, or other therapeutic programs;
   5. Mobility training, alternative or adaptive communication training;
   6. General supervision; and
   7. Opportunities for training and/or practice in basic life skills such as shopping, banking, money management, access and use of community resources, and community survival skills.
3. Develop, maintain, or enhance independent functioning skills for each consumer in sensorimotor areas, cognition, personal grooming, hygiene, dressing, eating, toileting, self-medication and first aid, recognizing symptoms of illness, and preventing accidents and illnesses. In order to fulfill this mandate, basic hygiene, grooming, and first aid supplies shall be available.
4. Assist each consumer in developing methods of starting and maintaining friendships of his/her choice, as well as appropriate assertiveness, social skills, and problem solving abilities for use in daily interactions.
5. Provide opportunities for consumers to participate in community activities and facilitate utilization of community resources.
6. Arrange and plan for transportation to support each consumer in all daily living activities (e.g., day treatment and training, employment situations, medical appointments, visits with family and friends, and other community activities). Promote, as appropriate, the acquisition of skills necessary to access community transportation resources.
7. Develop, at a minimum, a monthly on-site/community integrated schedule of daily activities and document consumer’s direct input into the schedule. Daily activities and schedules are based on consumer choice and preferences, developmental level, planning document goals, and enrichment of life experiences. Allow for reasonable choice in activity participation and offer alternative activities. This schedule shall be available to consumers, consumer representatives, or others upon request.
8. Play an active role in ensuring that services are complimentary with other involved entities, including day treatment and training providers, health care providers, and schools, and are coordinated to meet the needs of the consumers served.

Source: https://des.az.gov/

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